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MSF Pioneers Opening Up Access To Humanitarian Data

Nick Kennedy | SciDev.Net | January 13, 2014

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is pioneering an open-access approach within the humanitarian sector in the hope that other medical aid organisations will follow suit. Read More »

Novel Open Source Seed Pledge Aims To Keep New Vegetable And Grain Varieties Free For All

Nicole Miller | University of Wisconsin-Madison News | April 15, 2014

This week, scientists, farmers and sustainable food systems advocates will gather on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to celebrate an unusual group of honored guests: 29 new varieties of broccoli, celery, kale, quinoa and other vegetables and grains that are being publicly released using a novel form of ownership agreement known as the Open Source Seed Pledge. Read More »

Oscars Of Science: Breakthrough Awards Hands Out $21m To Transform Physicists Into Rockstars

Tim Walker | The Independent | December 13, 2013

In Hollywood this week, the talk was all about the Golden Globe nominations, but several hundred miles to the north, Silicon Valley’s biggest names were enjoying a new kind of awards ceremony – and they invited one of the film industry’s favourite sons to host it. Read More »

Recommendations For Removing Copyright Hurdles To Scientific Research

Staff Writer | Science Codex | September 3, 2013

The EU e-infrastructure coordination pro-iBiosphere project is preparing the ground for the pursuit of biological research in the digital age. In its "Draft policy for Open Access to data and information" scientists and lawyers recommend that hurdles posed by copyright and database protection should be removed by establishing exceptions for research in a new binding, Europe-wide regulation... Read More »

Riled Up By Elsevier’s Take-Downs? Time To Embrace Open Access

Alex O. Holcombe | The Conversation | December 12, 2013

The publishing giant Elsevier owns much of the world’s academic knowledge, in the form of article copyright. In the past few weeks it has stepped up enforcement of its property rights, issuing “take-down notices” to Academia.edu, where many researchers post PDFs of their articles. Read More »

Sequester Causes 'Brain Drain' Of U.S. Researchers

Ashley Gold | FierceHealthIT | September 25, 2013

One in five U.S. scientists have considered moving overseas to continue their research due to being hamstrung by the federal budget sequester, according to a new report called Unlimited Potential, Vanishing Opportunity, published by a coalition of 16 science organizations. Read More »

Strapped For Funding, Medical Researchers Pitch To The Crowd

Virginia Hughes | Nature.com | September 7, 2012

In April, Dyer turned to Medstartr, one of several new crowd-funding websites tailored for scientific research and the healthcare sector. Medstartr, which debuted online in July, focuses on helping biomedical start-ups solicit small donations from everyday citizens. Meanwhile, Petridish, which came online 6 March, and iAMscientist, on 31 July, are helping scientists affiliated with academic or nonprofit institutions raise money for their research.

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Sweet Snacks 'Link To Bowel Cancer'

Staff Writer | BBC | July 14, 2013

Fizzy drinks, cakes, biscuits, crisps and desserts may increase the risk of bowel cancer, according to a new study. Read More »

The tranSMART Foundation To Hold International Developers Meeting For Its Open-Source Translational Medicine Research Platform

Press Release | tranSMART Foundation | February 6, 2014

The tranSMART Foundation, a non-profit organization providing a global, open-source knowledge management platform for scientists to share pre-competitive translational research data, today announced that it is hosting an International Developers Meeting February 5-7, 2014 at Recombinant by Deloitte's location in Newton, Mass. Read More »

Those Ocean-Going Robots We Told You About Just Got Smarter

Todd Woody | Quartz | April 8, 2013

What could be cooler than solar-and-wave-powered robots that roam the oceans collecting data for climate scientists and oil companies while performing top-secret missions for the military? Here’s what: Ones that can think for themselves. Read More »

US Scientists Are Leaving The Country And Taking The Innovation Economy With Them

Janet Rae-Dupree | Forbes | September 25, 2013

Federal funding cuts, and the insidious damage caused just since March by federal budget sequestration, have forced nearly one in five U.S. scientists to consider moving overseas to continue their research. Read More »

Why Do Female Scientists Receive Less Funding?

Jeremy Farrar | The Independent | December 11, 2013

Yesterday in Stockholm, eight scientists received their Nobel prizes, for medicine, physics and chemistry. All of them are men. At the same time – and by complete coincidence – this newspaper ran a story 'Women scientists less likely to receive funding', based on a study published in the journal BMJ Open Access. The connection is not too difficult to make. Read More »

Why Open Drug Discovery Needs Four Simple Rules For Licensing Data And Models

Antony J. Williams, John Wilbanks, and Sean Ekins | PLoS Computational Biology | September 27, 2012

As we see a future of increased database integration, the licensing of the data may be a hurdle that hampers progress and usability. We have formulated four rules for licensing data for open drug discovery, which we propose as a starting point for consideration by databases and for their ultimate adoption. Read More »

Won’t Somebody Please Think Of The Penguins? Shutdown Freezes Antarctica Research

Leo Mirani | Quartz | October 9, 2013

Three American research stations in Antarctica will be put in “caretaker status” and all research suspended as a consequence of the continuing US government shutdown, the United States Antarctic Program (USAP) has announced. The timing couldn’t be worse... Read More »

Yale Program's Agreement With Johnson & Johnson Allows Broad Access To Clinical Trial Data

Press Release | Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) | January 30, 2014

In a move that promotes open science, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project has entered an agreement with Johnson & Johnson that will enable scientists around the world to gain access to the company's clinical trial data assets. Read More »