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JOHN W. HOUGHTON
John.Houghton AT pobox.com
Research Activities.
Centre for Strategic Economic Studies.
Professor and Director of the Information Technologies and the Information Economy Program,
Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne.
The Information Technologies and the Information Economy Program focuses on the economic and organisational impacts of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), including information industry development and policy, the application of ICT across the economy and consequent structural change, emerging business models for information-based businesses, and statistical indicators of information industry and infrastructure development
Current & Recent
Projects.
Costs and benefits of access to PSI for ANDS | Audiovisual
Services for the OECD | The value of personal data and online privacy for the OECD |
Access to academic research by SMEs for FI and DEFF (Denmark) | Economic imapcts of
the US FRPAA for SPARC (USA) | ICT and the Environment for OECD | Costs and Benefits
of Open Access for SURF (Netherlands) and DEFF (Denmark) | Economic implications of
alternative scholarly publishing models for JISC (United Kingdom) | Economics of
Scientific Publishing and Public Sector Information for OECD (France) and NAS (USA)
| Developing Benchmarks for the Digital Economy for DCBDE | Statistical updates
on Australia’s ICT Trade for ACS | and more...
Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing
Models
(EI-ASPM)
EI-ASPM
Project Page with on-line models
Media
Mentions
Times Higher Education
The
Economist
Times Higher Education (THES)
Some Recent Publications
Costs and Benefits of Data Provison
Report to The Australian National Data Service (ANDS)
Available
at http://ands.org.au/resource/cost-benefit.html
'Audiovisual Services'
OECD (2011) Communications Outlook
2011 (July 2011)
Available at http://www.oecd.org/sti/telecom/outlook
Access to Research and Technical
Information in Denmark
Forsknings- og
Innovationsstyrelsen and Denmark's Electronic Research Library
Available
at http://www.fi.dk/publikationer/2011/adgang-til-forskningsresultater-og-teknisk-information-i-danmark
'Exploring the Economic Impacts of Open Access to
Publicly Funded Research'
Vice Chancellor's Seminar Series on Open Scholarship, University of
Queensland, Brisbane (May 2011)
http://ceit.uq.edu.au/content/vice-chancellors-seminar-series-open-scholarship-presents-economics-open-access-professor-jo
'The costs and benefits of alternative
publishing models'
Information
Research, 16(1)
Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/16-1/paper469.html
'Economic Impacts of Open Access in
Europe and the United States'
University
of Tromso, Norway, November 2010
Available from
UIT
(Video)
'Costs and Benefits of Alternative
Publishing Models: Lessons and Developments'
Berlin8 Conference, Beijing, October 2010
Available from
Berlin8
(Video)
'Economic Impacts of Open Access:
Implications from studies in Europe and the US'
Deakin University, Melbourne, October 2010
Available
from Deakin University
ICT and the Environment in Developing
Countries: Opportunities and Developments
WCC 2010, Brisbane, September 2010
Available
from Springer
Economic and Social Returns on
Investment in Open Archiving Publicly Funded Research Outputs
SPARC, Washington DC., August 2010
Available
from SPARC
'Economic Implications of Alternative
Publishing Models: Authors' Response'
Prometheus 28(2), August
2010
Available from
Prometheus
'Costs and
benefits of alternative scholarly publishing models: Lessons and developments'
in
Publishing in the networked world: Transforming the
Nature of Communication,
Eds. Turid Hedlund and Yasar Tonta. ISBN
978-952-232-086-5, pp.385-403
Available http://hdl.handle.net/10227/599
'Costs and Benefits of Alternative
Publishing Models: Lessons and Developments'
ELPub 2010, Helsinki,
June 2010
Available from scix.net
'Economic Impacts of Alternative
Publishing Models: Lessons and Developments'
Third European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine
and Medicine, Leiden, May 2010
Available from Leiden University Medical
Centre
'The Economic Implications of
Alternative Publishing Models'
Prometheus 28(1), March
2010
Available from
Prometheus
'Economic Implications of Alternative
Publishing Models: Self-Archiving and Repositories'
Liber Quarterly 19(3/4),
March 2010
Available
from Liber Quarterly
'ICTs and the Environment in Developing
Countries: Opportunities and Developments'
ICTs for Development: Improving Policy
Coherence, OECD, Paris, 2010,
pp.149-175.
Available from
OECD
Implications of Alternative Open Access
Models
Berlin7 Open Access Conference,
Paris (December 2009)
Paper - Webcast
'ICT and the Environment in Developing
Countries: an Overview of Opportunities and Developments'
Communications & Strategies
76(4) 2009, pp.39-60.
ICT and the Environment in Developing
Countries: Opportunities and Developments
Joint infoDev/OECD Workshop: Policy coherence in the application
of ICT for development
Paris (September 2009)
Workshop -
Paper -
Webcast
Costs and Benefits of Alternative
Publishing Models: Denmark
DEFF,
Copenhagen (September 2009)
Available
from KE
'Exploring the impacts
of enhanced access to publicly funded research'
The socioeconomic effects of public sector information on digital networks:
Towards a better understanding of different access and reuse
policies
Ed.
Paul Uhlir, National Academies
National Academies Press, Washington DC (June
2009)
Available from The National
Academies
Developments in Open
Access: A research perspective on the economics and implications
Presentation to Information Futures,
University of Melbourne (July 2009)
Available from UniMelb
What happens when a
knowledge economy turns down?
Information Outlook13(4), Special Libraries Association, Washington DC (June
2009)
Available from SLA
Open Access: What are
the economic benefits?
A comparison of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark
Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Brussels
(June 2009)
Available from KE
'Economic Implications
of Alternative Publishing Models: Self-archiving and
Repositories'
OAI6
CERN Workshop on Innovation in Scholarly Publishing 2009, Geneva (June
2009)
Available from CERN
'Exploring the Costs and
Benefits of Alternative Publishing Models'
ELPub Conference 2009, Milan (June
2009)
Available from ELPub
Costs and Benefits of
Research Communication: The Dutch Situation
SURFfoudation, Utrecht (June
2009)
Available from SURF
'Open Access and the
Researcher: Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing
Models'
JISC
Conference 2009, Edinburgh (March 2009)
Available from
JISC
'Estimating the
Potential Impacts of Open Access to Research Findings'
Economic Analysis and Policy 39(1)
(March 2009)
Available from EAP
'Economics of Scholarly
Publishing, Alternative Publishing Models and the benefit/cost of Open
Access'
Danmarks
Forskningsbiblioteksforenings Vinterinternatmøde 2009,
Klarskovgaard (January 2009)
Available
from DFDF
Economic Implications of
Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models (EI-ASPM)
Report to the UK Joint Information Systems
Committee (JISC) (January 2009)
Release
Noticeand Available from JISC
[Mentioned in Times
Higher Education(5
February 2009)]
'Economic Implications
of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models: Exploring Costs and
Benefits'
Information Online 2009 (January 2009)
Available from
ALIA
'Scholarly Communication
Costs in Australian Higher Education'
Higher Education Management and Policy 20(3) (December
2008)
Available from OECD
'The IT
Industry: Recent Developments and Outlook'
OECD Information Technology Outlook
2008 (December 2008)
Available from the
OECD
'Globalisation of the
ICT Sector'
OECD
Information Technology Outlook 2008 (December 2008)
Available fro the OECD
'Alternative publishing
models: Exploring the costs AND benefits'
Presentation at Berlin 6 (November
2008)
Available from Berlin 6
'Alternative
publishing models: Exploring the costs and benefits'
Presentation at the Open Access and
Research Conference 2008, Brisbane (September 2008)
Available from OAK
Law
'Uncovering the social and economic
benefits of open access'
JISC Podcast
(August 2008)
Available
from JISC
'ICTs and the environment: A framework
for analysis'
Workshop on ICTs and Environmental
Challenges
Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development and Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and
Innovation
Eigtveds Pakhus, Copenhagen (May 2008)
Available from
OECD
Webcast at Danish Ministry
'Exploring the impacts of enhanced
access to publicly funded research'
The Socioeconomic
Effects of Public Sector Information on Digital Networks: Toward a Better
Understanding of Different Access and Reuse Policies
U.S National Committee for CODATA Board on International
Scientific Organizations, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Paris (February 2008)
Available from OECD
'Emerging ICT Market Strategy: South
Africa'
CSES &
BMI-Techknowledge
Multimedia Victoria (December 2007)
Available from MMV
'Global Chains: Australia's challenge
in the evolving global economy'
Competing from Australia
Committee for Economic Development of Australia (July 2007)
Available
from CEDA
'Broadband and Internet
Infrastructure'
OECD Communications
Outlook 2007(July 2007)
Available from OECD
'Communications in the Emerging BRICS
Economies'
OECD Communications Outlook
2007(July 2007)
Available from OECD
Australian ICT Trade
Update 2007
Australian
Computer Society & Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (March
2007)
Available from CSES &
ACS
Online delivery of tourism
services: Developments, issues and challenges
in eds. Pease, W., Rowe, M. and Cooper,
M.
Information
and Communication Technologies in Support of the Tourism
Industry,
Idea Group, Hershey, PA.
Innovation in ICT: A
changing landscape
Telecommunications Journal of
Australia 56(3/4), pp93-105,
Spring/Summer 2006
Available from TSA
Global Chains: Australia's
Challenge in the Evolving World Economy
Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), Melbourne
(November 2006)
Available from CEDA
See also
Connecting Global Chains
In Information Age, 15 February 2007
Exploring the Economic
Impacts of Open Access: A Research Perspective
Keynote Presentation at JISC Conference "Moving
Towards Open Access", Keble College, Oxford (September 2006)
PowerPoint Available from JISC
Research Communication
Costs in Australia, Emerging Opportunities and Benefits
Report to the Department of Education, Science and
Training, Canberra (September 2006)
Report available from ANU |
Executive Summary
'ICT Trade and
Globalisation of the ICT Sector'
In OECD Information Technology Outlook
2006
OECD, Paris (September 2006)
Available from OECD
The Economic Impact of Enhanced Access to Research
Findings
CSES Working Paper
No.23, Victoria University, Melbourne (August 2006)
Available from CSES
Scholarly Communication
Costs and Benefits: The Role of Repositories
Presentation at APSR event "The Successful
Repository" Brisbane (July 2006)
PowerPoint Available from APSR
'The Global Knowledge
Economy'
In Ed. Rao, J.N. Knowledge-Based
Economy: An Introduction
ICFAI University Press, Hydrabad (August 2006)
Available from ICFAI Press
Research Practices &
Scholarly Communication in the Digital Environment
In Eds. Grewal, B.S. and Kumnick, M.
Engaging the New World: Responses to the Knowledge Economy
Melbourne University Publishing, Melbourne (May 2006)
Available from Melbourne University Publishing
Australian ICT Trade
Update 2006
Australian
Computer Society & Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Sydney & Melbourne
(March 2006)
Available from CSES &
ACS
Big Pipes: Connecting
Western Australia to the Global Knowledge Economy
Western Australian Information and Communications
Technology Forum, Perth, April 2006
GQ-AAS
Available from
TIAC
The Australian Software
Industry & Vertical Applications Markets:
Globally Competitive, Domestically Undervalued
(CIIER)
Department of Communications, Information Technology and The Arts, Canberra, April
2006
Available from DCITA
Changing Research Practices and Research Infrastructure
Development
Higher Education Management and
Policy 17(1), pp63-81,
September 2005
Available from OECD
Digital Broadband Content:
Scientific Publishing
Working Party on the Information Economy,
OECD, Paris, September 2005
Press Release & Report Available from OECD
[Mentioned in The
Economist (22 September 2005)]
Scholarly communication in
a knowledge-based economy
ETD 2005: Evolution through discovery,
Sydney, September 2005
Available from ADT (ETD 2005)
Electronics Industry
Capability Mapping
Electronics Industry Action Agenda,
AEEMA, Canberra, August 2005
Available from AEEMA
Internet and Broadband
Infrastructure
Employment and Productivity
Trade in Communication Equipment
OECD Communications Outlook 2005, OECD, Paris (August 2005)
Available
from OECD
Digital Delivery in
Distribution & Logistics
Working Party on the Information Economy,
OECD, Paris, May 2005
Available from OECD
Economics of Publishing and the Future
of Scholarly Communication
In Eds. Gorman, G.E. & Rowland, F. (2004) International
Year Book of Library and Information Management 2004-2005:
Scholarly Publishing in an Electronic Era, Facet Publishing, London, November
2004
Available from Facet Publishing
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