Monthly Archives: April 2011
BMJ article about the CIHR trials policy disappearance
More follow up from these previous posts about the surprise disappearance of the Policy on the registration and results disclosure of controlled and uncontrolled trials funded by CIHR. Thursday, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a News article by Ann … Continue reading
Filed under ethics, funding, government, Health, privatization
Niceness, Helpfulness & Ethics: Feedback edition
The Canadian Health Libraries Association/Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada has a mentorship interest group. While I can be skeptical about institutional “leadership training” and am in that awkward adolescent phase of my career in which I’m not … Continue reading
Filed under ethics, inclusion/exclusion, LIS education
Details: TCPS-2 vs the CIHR trials policy of 2010
Thanks to a few days’ time and some help from people with more experience reading science policy, I now feel that I can expand on my previous post about the TCPS-2 “superseding” the Dec 2010 CIHR trials policy. First of … Continue reading
Filed under censorship, democracy, ethics, funding, government, Health, OA
Community-Led Service Planning
As managers within library systems, we have the opportunity to be involved in the development of strategic objectives – and hence – the actions needed by staff to complete these objectives. Service planning is an important part of this process. … Continue reading
Filed under community development
Follow-up: CIHR trials transparency policy
Here is the official word from the CIHR on the clinical trials transparency policy that was so transparent that no one could see it: According to Dr. Ian Graham, Vice-President, Knowledge Translation, the new Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for … Continue reading
Filed under democracy, digitization, ethics, funding, government, Health, OA
Cached Copy: Policy on registration and results disclosure of controlled and uncontrolled trials funded by CIHR
For the record. -Greyson This is Google’s cache of http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/42831.html. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 17 Mar 2011 22:31:42 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime. Policy on registration and results … Continue reading
Filed under democracy, digitization, ethics, funding, government, Health, OA
The mystery of the missing CIHR trials policy
Who stole the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s trial transparency policy? Canadian health researchers report that the policy, only four months old, went missing sometime in mid-March. The policy’s full name is Policy on the registration and results disclosure of … Continue reading
Filed under censorship, digitization, funding, Health
