Category Archives: OA
Update on withdrawn CIHR trials policy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
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
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
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
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
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
Hark – PubMedCentral Canada on the horizon!
Thanks to Dean Giustini for the original heads-up on this: In a press release titled “Canada joins international effort to provide access to health research,” the NRC (parent organization of CISTI, the de facto Canadian national library of science & … Continue reading
Filed under government, Health, OA, preservation, publishing
