Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet When did the idea of open science capture the imagination of researchers? A seminal moment in the history of open science occurred in 1982 with the creation of the public GenBank at Los Alamos National Laboratory(LANL). In 1992, functional management responsibility for the exponentially growing library of genetic sequences was transferred to the newly [...]
Sun, March 4 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I’m writing about Profiles in Science after seeing the announcement about the release of a selection from the papers of American surgeon Clarence Dennis (1909-2005), who developed one of the first heart-lung bypass machines. Profiles in Science began in 1998 as a digital library research collaboration between the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s Lister [...]
Wed, August 3 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The news from blogs like ars technica is that on July 7th the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has announced version 1.1 of an open hardware license (OHL) standard, a legal framework for sharing in the development of projects that are currently tracked in a CERN-supported open hardware repository(OHWR). Part of the press [...]
Sun, July 10 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet When I discovered someone identified as the Indispensable Man of Open Science , I also found out about Cameron Neylon’s and other scientists creating open notebook science (making the entire primary record of a research project publicly available online) and a website called Open Wetware(OWW). OWW is both an open science content site and [...]
Tue, March 22 2011 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Tweet Kudos to the SOAP Project and their intention to share the highlights of their survey data openly. The data was just posted in the arXiv.org repository: Yes, I downloaded the 21.5 MB XLS .csv version of more than 43,000 survey responses by scientists. Using a simple find all command, I can sort out an analyze a [...]
Mon, January 31 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet At a workshop conference I attended earlier this week on building digital library capacity in the Northern Africa Maghreb countries, one presentation seemed appropriate for this blog. Walter L. Warnick, Ph.D., Director of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information for the U.S. Department of Energy, introduced the attendees to WorldWideScience.org, a federated full-text database of scientific [...]
Thu, January 27 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet On a morning which happens to allow me a leisurely breakfast and browsing beyond the front page of the printed edition of my January 17, 2011, local newspaper, I found an Associated Press(AP) wire story “Cancer survivor aims to raze barriers with app” right next to the obituaries (not exactly front page news). [...]
Mon, January 17 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Open Access to Refereed Research Publications and Open Access to Research Data: A Crucial Strategic Distinction Stevan Harnad Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Sciences Université du Québec à Montreal & School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton
Tue, November 30 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Please note that my Library and Information Science instructional activies take precedence over blogging until after December 15th or so, except when my friend and colleagues spot a timely gem. My former student Sondhaya (Sunny) Sritongsook has been supporting my blog with ideas and research. She formatted most of this post, which I really [...]
Sun, October 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet BioMed Central has drafted a position statement on data sharing, open data and licensing, and they have invited the wider scientific community to join the discussion to craft an explicit open data licensing policy. BMC acknowledges the Panton Principles for open data in science, adding the caveat that the scientific community ensure researchers still receive appropriate [...]
Fri, September 10 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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