• A Win:Win for Data Access: Balancing Public Good with Privacy Concerns 

      Stanley, Fiona
      Published 2008-01-01
      This chapter suggests that the current urgent issues facing modern societies demand the best information and knowledge from which decisions can be made. This is vital for governments at all levels, nongovernment organisations ...
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      Book chapter
    • Streamlining Collaborative Agreements in an e-Research World 

      Austin, Anthony; Fitzgerald, Brian
      Published 2008-01-01
      On 22 January 2008, the Australian Minister for Innovation, Science and Research announced a review of the ‘National Innovation System’2 which intends to analyse the Australian innovation system and to ‘build innovation ...
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      Book chapter
    • Creating a Legal Framework for Copyright Management of Open Access within the Australian Academic and Research Sector 

      Fitzgerald, Brian; Fitzgerald, Anne; Perry, Mark; Kiel-Chisholm, Scott; Driscoll, Erin; Thampapillai, Dilan; Coates, Jessica
      Published 2008-01-01
      There is an increasing recognition, in Australia and internationally, that access to knowledge is a key driver of social, cultural and economic development. The argument for greater access to, and reuse of, research outputs ...
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      Book chapter
    • Science as Social Enterprise: The CAMBIA BiOS Initiative 

      Jefferson, Richard
      Published 2008-01-01
      Nearly four billion people live on daily incomes lower than the price of a latté at Starbucks. Most of them make dramatically less than that—and from that income, they must acquire their food, their medicine, their shelter ...
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      Book chapter
    • Designing Institutional Infrastructures for e-Science 

      David, Paul A; Spence, Michael
      Published 2008-01-01
      The opportunity exists today for unprecedented connections between scientists, information, data, computational services, and instruments through the Internet. A new generation of information and communication infrastructures, ...
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      Book chapter