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Open Access Plan is No Academic Spring
The UK government is currently making a fundamental choice concerning access to the results of publicly funded research...Everyone agrees that these results should be freely available. So the decision the UK faces is not about whether access to scientific research should be free. Rather, it is about how this should be accomplished. Read More »
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Open Source Celebrates The Freedom To Leave
This week in San Francisco, the Open Source Business Conference unveiled its sixth annual Future of Open Source Survey. A self-selecting survey, its results very much reflect the interests of its sponsors, with the mere 740 respondents participating this year representing a 60 percent increase over the number who responded to last year's survey. All the same, the trends revealed in the survey provide some insight into what "influencers" are thinking. Read More »
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Open Source Data Solutions Offer Enterprises More than Cost Savings
Forrester predicted earlier this year that we’d see more open source data tools find their way into the enterprise this year, thanks in no small part to the fact that open source rules the Big Data space.
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Open Source Is Taking Over The Software World, Survey Says
It's been only a few weeks since the Linux Foundation released its report that enterprise use of Linux continues to rise, but on Wednesday fresh data came out that suggests the same is true of open source software in general. Read More »
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Open Source Software Moves Into All Businesses
A Black Duck survey and the Linux Collaboration Summit both show that open-source software and the open-source method are moving well beyond where you think they live, and into all businesses. Read More »
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Open Source Training Makes Labs Safer For All
BioRAFT has teamed with NH-INBRE and Dartmouth EHS to create an open source-style lab safety training program. This model can and should be replicated to start solving this industry-wide challenge. Read More »
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Open-Source Hardware: Copy & Paste Empowerment
Last week I was privileged enough to speak at the Open Hardware Summit. It was a wonderful experience, and I hope to return again in the years to come. Read More »
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Openly Streamlining Peer Review
We are delighted to host our first guest post on Biologue by James Rosindell and William D. Pearse from Silwood Park, Imperial College London. They share their view on how we might improve peer review. Read More »
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OSLOOM: An Open Source Jacquard Loom
The OSLOOM project has been working for two years to build an open source Jacquard loom. It is one of the first open source textiles projects to receive some funding via Kickstarter... Read More »
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Oversight Committee Passes IT Reform Act, Giving CIOs Budget Authority
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee unanimously passed legislation on Wednesday that would mark the most significant reform in more than a decade to the way the government purchases information technology. Read More »
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Panel on Health Reform Focuses on Ditching the Insurance Industry
Three prominent critics of the country’s current health care system and ardent reform advocates appeared in Portland today to discuss their views on health reform, President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and what ought to be done to ensure that everyone has access to quality health care. Read More »
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Persistent Myths About Open Access Scientific Publishing
A spate of recent articles in the Guardian have drawn attention to lots of reasons why open access to research publications is reasonable, beneficial and even inevitable. But two recent letters columns in the Guardian...have perpetuated some long-running misconceptions about open access that need to be addressed. Read More »
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Providing Electronic Access To Public Records Is 'Expensive' And Other Government Excuses For PACER Fees
Steve Schultze at Freedom to Tinker wants to know why the general public is still being asked to pay for access to public records. Since these records are generated using tax dollars, a person would reasonably expect they would be free to access, especially since they're the ones footing the bill... Read More »
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Quality Matters: "Hospital at Home" Programs Improve Outcomes, Lower Costs But Face Resistance from Providers and Payers
Hospital at home programs that enable patients to receive acute care at home have proven effective in reducing complications while cutting the cost of care by 30 percent or more, leading to entrepreneurial efforts to promote their use. But widespread adoption of the model in the U.S. has been hampered by physicians’ concerns about patient safety, as well as legal risk, and by the reluctance of payers, including Medicare, to reimburse providers for delivering services in home settings. Read More »
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Re-thinking Clinical Trials For The World Of Crowdsourcing
Disruption isn’t a word normally associated with clinical drug development, but nevertheless it is coming. [...] There are signals that drug development is starting to catch up with the general trend toward open collaboration and innovation. This trend is enabling tremendous advances in other industries, so why not ours? Read More »
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