Category Archives: funding
How academic libraries annoy academics
Here’s a story I’m telling because I think libraries need more allies in the academy. As a librarian-slash-researcher-slash-professor I have these weird insider/outsider (or emic/etic) experiences with academic libraries from time to time. In these experiences (here’s one from last … Continue reading
Filed under academic libraries, advocacy, funding, technology, The Profession
Update on withdrawn CIHR trials policy
In an only somewhat-overdue update (thanks to conference season interrupting my regular blogging activities – I do write on the road, but need to get sleep & give a read over before I can push “publish” on a post) the … Continue reading
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
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
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
Evaluation, assessment, research & impact
Around the same time I noticed that a number of academic libraries were posting for new (or newish) “assessment librarians,” I went to a cool lecture by Dr. Eliza Dresang about a project teaming LIS researchers with children’s librarians to … Continue reading
Publishers, Green OA & Institutional vs Subject Repositories
Back in November, I was among the many authors to receive an email from Emerald Group Publishing, touting the publisher’s “commitment to protecting your work,” and announcing their use of the Attributor service to track down “unauthorized copies” of “my” … Continue reading
Filed under copyright, funding, OA, Other blogs, publishing
Olympic sponsorships & Vancouver Public Library: Conflict of Interest?
Vancouver Public Library (VPL) in British Columbia, where the 2010 Winter Olympic Games are about to begin in a matter of weeks, has been in the news this past week. At issue are the instructions given to staff on how … Continue reading
Filed under censorship, ethics, funding, labour issues, public libraries
