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Free, Open, and Re-Usable Access to Legal Information – The Australian Experience†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2017

Petal Kinder
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Several years ago, the Australian Information Commissioner decided that, subject to security and privacy and so forth, all of its public-sector information should be, “free, easily discoverable, machine readable and re-useable.”

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , March 2017 , pp. 45 - 48
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© 2017 Petal Kinder.

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This is the text of an oral presentation, part of a panel on the subject of Open Access. It was delivered at the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES, 35th Annual Course on International Law and Legal Information, Common Law Perspectives in a Global Context, Keble College, Oxford, 31 July–3 August 2016.

References

1 Open public sector information: from principles to practice Report on agency implementation of the Principles on open public sector information February 2013 <https://www.oaic.gov.au/information-policy/information-policy-resources/open-public-sector-information-from-principles-to-practice>

2 Open Australia <https://www.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/projects/openaustralia-org/>

3 Trove <http://trove.nla.gov.au>

4 Pandora <http://trove.nla.gov.au/website?q=>

5 Digitized Newspapers <http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/?q=>

6 Federal Register of Legislation <https://www.legislation.gov.au>

7 Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade <http://dfat.gov.au/international-relations/treaties/Pages/treaties.aspx>

8 Attorney General's Department <https://www.ag.gov.au/RightsAndProtections/Pages/default.aspx>

9 High Court of Australia <http://eresources.hcourt.gov.au>

10 Federal Court of Australia <http://www.fedcourt.gov.au/publications/judgments/search>

11 AustLII <http://www.austlii.edu.au>

12 AustLII Legal Scholarship Library <http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/>

13 AustLII Funding Sources <http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/contributors/>

14 Barnet/JADE <https://jade.io>