Research Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) Program (RIEF)

Updated 7 May, 1997

"Grants allocated under the Research Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) Program fund relatively large scale initiatives which develop research infrastructure on a cooperative basis across groups of institutions. Such initiatives may also involve organisations outside the higher education sector. Although the grants are intended primarily to support large scale cooperative projects involving two or more institutions, individual institutions for whom collaborative arrangements are impracticable or inappropriate have been eligible to apply for grants since 1994. Applications are considered on merit by a *selection panel appointed by the Australian Research Council." (DEETYA, 1997)

1997 Research Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities Grants (awarded 1996)

*Reorganisation of ARC Program Committee Responsibilities (February 1997) See Committee for International and National Cooperation (previously known as Institutional Grants Committee)

National Infrastructure Guidelines: Libraries and Information Technology

Goals

1. Providing national infrastructure support to assist research initiatives by funding collaborative projects.
2. Enhancing the national information resource infrastructure by purchasing resources of national significance or by building resources to be made available over time.
3. Developing innovative models which facilitate information access structures of national benefit.
4. Identifying, and developing remedies for, deficiencies in national research infrastructure for resource sharing.
5. Establishing national digital collections and initiatives for enhanced cooperation.
6. Developing programmes which allow national and global access to research infrastructure.
7. Combining and extending the resources of major international collections, for example through subject gateways, with the view to making them available to the nation via a global virtual library.
8. Providing improved access to research resources by purchasing or building directories, indices or catalogues.

While proposals submitted must conform with the RIEFP Guidelines, proponents should be mindful of the extent to which their proposal:

• provides national access to research resources;
• provides a more widely applicable model for developing national access to research resources;
• fills a gap in the current research resources available to the nation;
• enhances the ability of Australian researchers to use the resources;
• demonstrates a capability for further development as well as sustainability of the proposed project's outcomes
• demonstrates a capability for enduring benefit and value to Australian scholars; and
• involves collaboration between Australian and international institutions.

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