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European Commission Considering Leap into Open-Access Publishing
One of Europe’s biggest science spenders could soon branch out into publishing. The European Commission, which spends more than €10 billion annually on research, may follow two other big league funders, the Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and set up a “publishing platform” for the scientists it funds, in an attempt to accelerate the transition to open-access publishing in Europe...
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European Commission Embraces Open Access
The European Commission has announced its intention to make open access all research findings funded by Horizon 2020, its enormous, €80-billion (US$98-billion) research-funding programme for 2014–20. And it is urging member states to follow its lead. Read More »
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European Commission Joint Research Center And OpenStreetMap
Late March, just coming back from Burundi, I have been invited by Guido Lemoine from the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen – IPSC, Geospatial EMergency Management Action – GEMMA, that is part of the Joint Research Center (the European Commission’s in-house science service)... Read More »
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European Commission Report Says Open Access At 'Tipping Point'
Techdirt has been reporting for some time on the growing number of moves towards making academic work freely available to the public [...]. But what about the bigger picture? How is open access doing overall? The European Commission has just published a new report trying to answer these questions... Read More »
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European Nanotechnology Project Compiled Open-Access Nanotoxicology Database
Nanotechnology has led to advances in many diverse areas, including medicine and health care, information technology (IT), energy, household and consumer products. An EU-funded project has set up a web-based information system to provide information on impact of nanoparticles on health, safety and the environment. Read More »
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European Union Launches CKAN Data Portal
On Friday, to coincide with Saturday’s International Open Data Day, the European Commission (EC) unveiled a new data portal, which will be used to publish data from the EC and other bodies of the European Union. Read More »
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Evaluating the harm from closed source
In the remainder of this essay I will develop a theory of the harm from closed source, then consider what ethical rules that theory implies. Ethical rules about a problem area don’t arise in a vacuum. When trying to understand and improve them it is useful to start by examining widely shared intuitions about the problem. Let’s begin by examining common intuitions about this one...
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Evaluating the Harm from Closed-Source Healthcare Software
In a fantastic article on his blog at http://esr.ibiblio.org/, Eric S. Raymond, author of "The Cathedral and The Bazaar" goes to some lengths to quantify the damages and costs of using closed-source software in an organisation.
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Evaluation Of The Lovell Federal Health Care Center Merger: Findings, Conclusions, And Recommendations
This report finds that initial implementation of the Lovell FHCC has provided important lessons about how to integrate VA and DoD health care services and has identified remaining obstacles that the departments could overcome to make such mergers more effective and less costly to implement. The IOM recommends that the VA and the DoD develop a comprehensive evaluation plan to objectively judge its success or failure, with measurable criteria, that would provide essential knowledge for both the Lovell FHCC and future endeavors.
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EVE: Valkyrie, Open Source Hardware, And The Best Practices Guide
The intersection of transparency and open collaboration between Oculus and the development community often leads to amazing content and inspiring breakthroughs. Today, we’re excited to share a few great examples. Read More »
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Even Supporters Need To Realize That Obamacare Needs A Fundamental Fix
The administration has confirmed that the individual policies that were supposed to be cancelled because of Obamacare can now remain in force another two years. For months I have been saying millions of individual health insurance policies will be cancelled by year-end — most deferred until December because of the carriers’ early renewal programs and because of President Obama’s request the policies be extended in the states that have allowed it.
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Event Report: BRISSKit Community Day And Hack Event
The BRISSKit Community Day brought together project partners, interested biomedical research groups, developers and domain experts to learn about the BRISSKit toolkit: a national shared service designed to host, implement and deploy biomedical research database applications that support the management and integration of tissue samples with clinical data and electronic patient records. Read More »
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Every Library And Museum In America, Mapped
If you have ever felt overwhelmed by the ubiquity of McDonald's, this stat may make your day: There are more public libraries (about 17,000) in America than outposts of the burger mega-chain (about 14,000). The same is true of Starbucks (about 11,000 coffee shops nationally). Read More »
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Every Person Deserves Access To Health Care
On the occasion of Medicare’s 47th birthday, we urge the immediate expansion of Medicare to everyone in the United States. We need a health care system that provides access to every one of us, no matter how sick, poor, old or unemployed we may be. We need reduced costs. We need improved health outcomes. Read More »
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Everyone Needs A Blue Button
Flash forward to today – January 18, 2013. Last night – mom fell and broke her hip. [...] I’ve been journaling during the whole visit (who knew there was this much stuff you could learn in 24 hours about health care) – but more pertinent – is what I learned about what I didn’t do and why I appreciate electronic health records and interoperability even more. Read More »
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