2007 - Australasian Legal Information Institute

AustLII Annual Report 2007 20
FUNDING 2007 AND 2008
COMPETITIVE GRANT FUNDING 2007
During 2007 AustLII had available to it for its Australian service far less funding from
competitive grants than at any time in the past seven years. Some of the grants below overlap
the 2006 calendar year.
• Research Infrastructure Block Grant (RIBG) funding under the UNSW Major
Equipment and Infrastructure Bids Scheme for the creation of new legal research
facilities and subject-specific online libraries (2007) – $75,000
• AusAID’s Public Sector Linkages Program (PSLP) grant for Year 1 of the
development of free access to the law of Asian developing economies via the Asian
Legal Information Institute (AsianLII) (2006-2007) – $201,000
• Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Grants to Australian Organisations Program
(GAOP) funding to continue the development of the Asian Legal Information
Institute (AsianLII) and the Commonwealth Legal Information Institute
(CommonLII) (2006-2007) – $30,000
• Australian Research Council – two amounts of $10,000 from two larger ARC
projects (privacy law and intellectual property law) based at UNSW, to build
databases on AustLII relevant to those projects – $20,000
A significant amount of AustLII’s expenditure in 2007 comprised funds carried forward from
AustLII’s 2006 ARC LIEF grant.
GRANTS OBTAINED FOR 2008 PROJECTS
By close of 2007, AustLII had obtained the following competitive grants to assist the funding of
its work in 2008 (some grants overlap the 2007 calendar year), providing considerably more
grant funding than in 2007.
• Australian Research Council LIEF grant for the creation of the Australian Legal
Scholarship Library (2008) – ARC Contribution: $169,776; Partner Contributions:
$315,000
• Australian Research Council Linkage grant to improve online case law within the
constraints of free access through heuristic linking (a three year grant 2008-2010)
– in 2008, ARC Contribution: $111,430; Partner Contributions: $57,000
• AusAID’s Public Sector Linkages Program (PSLP) grant for Year 2 of the
development of free access to the law of Asian developing economies via the Asian
Legal Information Institute (AsianLII) (2007-2008) – $275,000
• Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Grants to Australian Organisations Program
(GAOP) funding to continue the development of the Asian Legal Information
Institute (AsianLII) and the Commonwealth Legal Information Institute
(CommonLII) (2007-2008) – $50,000