Australian National Data Service, AusGOAL’s research and innovation sector partner, has published a new cost / benefit study on open access to data, prepared by John Houghton (Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University). (source: Baden Appleyard, ht Chris Corbin)

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The report describes case studies exploring the costs and benefits that PSI producing agencies and their users experience in making information freely available, and preliminary estimates of the wider economic impacts of open access to PSI. In doing so, it outlines a possibly method for cost-benefit analysis at the agency level and explores the data requirements for such an analysis – recognising that few agencies will have all of the data required.

By John Houghton (Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University)