Below are some useful references that are relevant to access to PSI:
- Open access policies, practices and licensing: a review of the literature in Australia and selected jurisdictions (condensed literature review), Professor Anne Fitzgerald, QUT Law School, 2009
- Policies and Principles on Access to and Reuse of Public Sector Information: a review of the literature in Australia and selected jurisdictions, Professor Anne Fitzgerald, QUT Law School, 2008-2009:
- 'The Future of Data Policy', Professor Anne Fitzgerald, Professor Brian Fitzgerald and Kylie Pappalardo, in The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, edited by Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley and Kristin Tolle, Microsoft Research, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 United States Licence, pp 201-208, 2009 (available from the Microsoft Research website)
- Copyright Law and Intellectual Property - Report to the Government 2.0 Taskforce: Project 4, Professor Anne Fitzgerald and Kylie Pappalardo (December 2009) (83 pages) released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence
- Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0, Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce (December 2009) (136 pages) released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence
- Venturous Australia – Building Strength in Innovation, Review of the National Innovation System, September 2008, Cutler & Company for the Australian Government Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia Licence.
- Submission by Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Submission 428, Innovate Australia: Review of the National Innovation System, April 2008 [.pdf, 85.97 kb]
- Government Information and Open Content Licensing: an Access and Use Strategy, Government Information licensing Framework (GILF) Project, Stage 2 Final Report, Queensland Government, Queensland Spatial Information Council (QSIC), Office of Economic and Statistical Research (OESR), Queensland Treasury, October 2006
- Report of the Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee on the Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information and Data, Victorian Government (24 June 2009)
- Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information and Data, Victorian Government Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee, 2008
- "Government Data and the Invisible Hand", David G. Robinson, Harlan Yu, William P. Zeller and Ed Felten, Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Volume 11, p160, 2009 (available from SSRN)
- "Hack, Mash & Peer: Crowdsourcing Government Transparency", Jerry Brito, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2007 (available from SSRN)
- The Power of Information: an independent review by Ed Mayo and Tom Steinberg, commissioned by the Cabinet Office, UK Government, 2007
- Power of Information Taskforce Report (in beta), Power of Information Taskforce, report to UK Government, 2009
- Borders in Cyberspace: Conflicting Public Sector Information Policies and their Economic Impacts, Summary Report, Peter Weiss, US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service, February 2002 [.pdf, 65.48 kb]
- "Towards a Blueprint for a Policy on PSI", Professor H. Burkert and Peter Weiss in G Aichholzer and H Burkett (eds), Public Sector Information in the Digital Age (2004), presented by Professor Burkert and Peter Weiss at the OECD Working Party on the Information Economy's Workshop on Public Sector Information held on 31 May 2006, reproduced in the OECD Workshop on Public Sector Information: Summary [.pdf, 275.63 kb]
- President Barack Obama, Transparency and Open Government, Memorandum for the Heads of Executive and Agencies, Office of the Press Secretary, The White House (21 January 2009) [.pdf, 18.5 kb]
- Australian Government Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Digital Economy Future Directions: Consultation Paper, 2008
- Submissions in response to the consultation paper (including one made by the auPSI team under QUT Law Faculty)
- National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC), "The Changing Geospatial Landscape", January 2009 - a short report that describes and considers the significance of recent innovations in digital spatial technology and practice [.pdf]
- UK Government, "Working Together - Public Services on Your Side", March 2009 - report on public sector reform.