Access to publicly funded research

From Regional Knowledge Resource Kit

The Australian Government through the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations has created a Research Accessibility Framework to ensure that information about research and how to access it is available to researchers and the wider community. For further information click here. The Government is providing $2.8 million over two years (2005/2007) to support the development of the framework.

The responsibilities of institutions and researchers with regard to making research findings accessible to the public are also addressed in Section 5 of the Australian code for the responsible conduct of research (second consultation draft, February 2006). This Code was prepared by the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee (AVCC), and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and intended to be used as the standard for responsible conduct of research in Australia.

The OECD has adopted a Declaration entrusting the OECD to work towards commonly agreed Principles and Guidelines on Access to Research Data from Public Funding (30 January 2004) . See Annex 1 of the Declaration.

Enablers for public access to Australian publicly funded research include the Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online (AANRO) database.