About the project

Open access to knowledge is increasingly important both as an economic and social force. Our project aims to make sharing knowledge across domains, and the world, both legal and efficient.

The project will develop legal protocols for managing copyright issues in an open access environment. At a technical level it will investigate provision and implementation of a rights expression language. The project will integrate with existing open access repositories at both legal and technical levels. It will provide a vital infrastructure for the open access landscape.

We encourage and value input from anyone interested in open access to knowledge: oaklaw@qut.edu.au.

Systemic Infrastructure Initiative Grant - June 2005
Australian Research Information Infrastructure Framework: Improving the Overall Access to Research

Other institutions involved:

  • Australian National University

  • University of New England
  • University of New South Wales
  • University of Wollongong
  • Charles Darwin University
  • ODRL Initiative
  • Earlham College
  • Stanford University
  • Creative Commons
  • University of Melbourne (Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia [IPRIA] and Centre for Media and Communications Law [CMCL])
  • AAROW, ADT, APSR
  • DART, RUBRIC, BLUENET, MOLECULAR MEDICINE