| Revolution in the wings : recent developments in open access research.
| Sale, Arthur | 2013 |
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Title: Revolution in the wings : recent developments in open access research.
Author(s): Sale, Arthur |
Journal Details: Australian Quarterly v.84 n.4 p.3-11
Published: October-December 2013
ISSN: 1443-3605
Abstract: Research advances because scientists, social scientists, researchers and scholars are generally assumed to share their work. This is actually not so, or at least it is a half-truth. For about 200 years the research literature has been largely restricted behind a pay barrier. Prior to that, research articles were shared freely through correspondence. Since then, research has been restricted with the invention of the print journal and recovery of costs via subscriptions imposed on readers. Most researchers in the West are oblivious because their universities or labs pay for the subscriptions they need, totalling many millions of dollars per institution. The Internet could solve this problem tomorrow, but it does not. The story of this article is that of recent advances, particularly that of open open access in various countries in the EU and the USA. [Author abstract, ed]
URL (conditional access) : https://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=201051
Record No: 201051 From EdResearch online
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| Fracturing the skeleton of principle : Australian law, aboriginal law, and digital technology.
| Christie, M. | 2007 |
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Title: Fracturing the skeleton of principle : Australian law, aboriginal law, and digital technology.
Author(s): Christie, M. |
Journal Details: Learning Communities n.4 p.30-40
Published: November 2007
ISSN: 1329-1440
Abstract: Aboriginal people in Australia today are constructing extremely diverse cultures. Increasingly, these cultures involve some aspect of digital technologies - videos, DVDs, CDs, digital photos, audiofiles etc. Emerging Aboriginal digital environments are affecting the intergenerational transmission of traditional culture wherever Aboriginal people are using digital technologies in their work of (re)producing culture in cities, towns and very remote locations. The work which is being done in some of these contexts is discussed in other papers and on a project website. This paper is about how the resources Aboriginal people produce in their own digital environments can be viewed by Australian law. The title is taken from Justice Brennan, writing in reference to the Mabo case: a willingness to engage flexible interpretations of legal doctrine to reflect Aboriginal interests should be welcomed, he wrote, provided this does not 'fracture the skeleton of principle' of Australian law. This is not the legal story of the intellectual property (IP) which is growing alongside the sudden flowering of 'databases of indigenous knowledge'. Such databases until now have mostly involved a collaboration between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal developers, when much of the technical work is inevitably under non-Indigenous control. The Intellectual Property around all this is complicated. This will be the case for a long time, not because databases are highly technical objects to operate, but because the way they do things with knowledge, the ways they 'intellectualise' it, seems quite foreign to the Aboriginal work of keeping knowledge traditions strong. It doesn't seem to help that much with the work which Aboriginal parents and grandparents are doing towards young people's induction into the knowledge traditions which have kept their family identity together over the generations. This is of course as true in the city as it is in remote homelands. [Author abstract, ed]
URL (open access) : https://www.cdu.edu.au/sites/default/files/the-northern-institute/ijlsc_4_nov2007.pdf
Record No: 167060 From EdResearch online
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