Category Archives: digitization
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
CMAJ and openness: audacity or ignorance?
I keep trying to figure out whether the CMAJ’s recent unofficial series of articles on various types of “open” is irony-aware or just pushing forward without realising what they’re doing. Brief background: the Canadian Medical Association Journal is THE major … Continue reading
Filed under digitization, Health, OA
The metered Internet threat to innovation & access to information
Remember the early days of mass public access to the world wide web? Back when AOL was king, noisy dial-up modems were par for the course and having any graphics on a webpage was super-fancy? Remember in 1993 or so, … Continue reading
Open access debate at CHLA/ABSC: not about OA at all
There was a lot of activity around the topic of open access at this year’s Canadian Health Libraries Association / Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada Conference in Kingston, ON: Our new Open Access Interest Group had its … Continue reading
Filed under digitization, ethics, Health, OA, publishing
Internet Linking is Analogous to Citation
Everyone with whom I have discussed the issue of Internet linking agrees that Internet hyperlinks are a form of citation. But the subset of the population with whom I discuss these issues is not representative of the entire world, clearly. … Continue reading
Filed under censorship, copyright, digitization, Intellectual freedom, Internet, IP, Other blogs, publishing
CMAJ “No longer free for all”
I’ve been thinking about the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)‘s decision to convert from being 100% free to read online to only partially so, come January. Access Change The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) has been entirely free to read, … Continue reading
Filed under copyright, digitization, funding, Health, OA, publishing
Privacy vs. Data: Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
My province, British Columbia, is one of many jurisdictions currently in the process of implementing eHealth, which is (in part) basically a large scale, provincially-coordinated implementation of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR). And I’m gonna come out and say it: … Continue reading
Filed under digitization, government, Health, privacy
