Free online legal database AustLII received a major cash injection from the Victorian Government this week, but it will still have to go begging for funding to cover its core services.
Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls announced funding of $839,000 for the not-for-profit organisation, which provides the world's largest free online legal database, to boost the quantity and quality of Victorian information available on the site....
AustLII co-director and UNSW academic Graham Greenleaf said the money would help the organisation "push into new areas".
"(But) it still means we need to get a large contribution from organisations to maintain and update the existing databases," he said....
The funding announcement this week follows the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between UNSW, UTS and Indonesia to provide technical assistance enabling Indonesian court decisions to be made available online.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
