Fwd: Australian Federal Government Commits to Open Access -a view
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> From: "Colin Steele" <Colin.Steele -- anu.edu.au>
> Date: May 17, 2010 8:31:48 PM CDT
>
>
> Australian Federal Government Commits to Open Access
> May 18, 2010 - 8:02 am
>
> http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/295
>
> "CCau followers will remember the Government 2.0 Taskforce report
> released in December last year, which gave Creative Commons a very big
> tick as the licensing model of choice for Australian PSI. The Federal
> Government's official response to the report was released yesterday and
> is generally positive, with the Federal Government agreeing (at least
> substantially) to 12 of the 13 recommendations to come out of the
> report.
>
> The response, which was released by the Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner
> via the Australian Government Information Office (AGIMO) blog, includes
> a commitment to the development of a comprehensive set of IP guidelines
> covering all Australian Federal agencies developed by the new
> Information Commissioner. These guidelines will, in principle, follow
> the Gov 2.0 recommendations that PSI should:
>
> *be by default free, open, and reusable;
> *be released as quickly as possible;
> *only be withheld where there is a legal obligation preventing its
> release;
> *be discoverable and accessible by a central government portal; and
> *when it becomes available for public access under the Archives Act
> 1983, will be automatically licensed under an appropriate open
> attribution licence."
> source: CC blog
>
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> Colin Steele
> Emeritus Fellow
> Copland Building 24
> Room G037, Division of Information
> The Australian National University
> Canberra ACT 0200
> Australia
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>
> Tel +61 (0)2 612 58983
> Email: colin.steele_at_anu.edu.au
>
> University Librarian, Australian National University (1980-2002)
> and Director Scholarly Information Strategies (2002-2003)
>
>
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