AustLII - 2008: The Australian Legal Scholarship Library

The Australian Research Council has provided an infrastructure (LIEF) grant of $169,776 for 2008 to enable AustLII to build an Australian Legal Scholarship Library. The grant is to investigators from seven Universities, who have between them (including contributions from their law schools) contributed a further $335,000 (plus $130,000 in-kind) to the project.

The main aim of the project is to expand the existing Australasian Law Journals Library in terms of the number of journals included and the historical depth of coverage, to make it as comprehensive as possible of Australian academic legal scholarship, and other non-profit law journals. The project will also aim to add law school academic repositories (such as UNSWLRS) for those law schools wishing to participate; to develop an automated citator for Australian law journal articles, tracking where they have been cited; and to explore development of an open content publishing platform for any law journals wishing to use it.

Approved Title: The Australian Legal Scholarship Library - enhancing research infrastructure for Australian law

Summary: It is difficult to find Australian legal scholarship of the last 50 years because too little of it is available online or searchable from any central location. The Australian Legal Scholarship Library, located on AustLII, will remedy that by creating a comprehensive repository for Australian academic and non-profit law journals, law school repositories for all of their new scholarship no matter where it is eventually published, and smart methods of finding how legal documents relate to each other. People researching Australian law, whether for business, academic or community purposes, will benefit from better access to this wealth of expertise.

Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage – Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) fund; Grant LE0882782, 2008; Primary RFCD 2801 Information Systems; ARC funding : $169,776; Funding from Partner Organisations $335,000 cash, $130,000 in-kind.

Investigator	Collaborating Institution	Cash	In-kind
Prof GW Greenleaf	The University of New South Wales	$120,000	$40,000
Prof AS Mowbray	University of Technology, Sydney	$100,000	$65,000
Prof T Carlin	Macquarie University	$20,000	$5,000
Dr F Wheeler	The Australian National University	$30,000	$5,000
A/Prof AT Kenyon	The University of Melbourne	$20,000	$5,000
Prof MA Adams	University of Western Sydney	$25,000	$5,000
Mrs H Culshaw	The Flinders University of South Australia	$20,000	$5,000

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