DFID Open and Enhanced Access Policy Published at Long Last

DFID Open and Enhanced Access Policy Published at Long Last:
From November 1st, all recipients of DFID funded research must make their findings freely available.

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Under the new policy, researchers will be required to make peer-reviewed journal …

Marc Goodman: A vision of crimes in the future

Marc Goodman: A vision of crimes in the future (by TEDtalksDirector)
What can (also) be expected with drones, 3D printing, the internet of things and DNA sequencing…

Free access to British scientific research within two years (The Guardian)

Free access to British scientific research within two years (The Guardian): An important move for open access, but probably not the right one:

[…] research papers that describe work paid for by the British taxpayer will be free online for universiti…

EU Opens Up Drug Data Secrets

EU Opens Up Drug Data Secrets: via the European Public Sector Information Platform and Reuters:

Europe’s medicines regulator is opening its data vaults to systematic scrutiny in a move that will let independent researchers trawl through millions of …

A Phone that Knows Where You’re Going

A Phone that Knows Where You’re Going: The potential of Big Data and why it is scary to have companies and governments collecting it…

In a study on 200 people willing to be tracked, the system was, on average, less than 20 meters off when it predict…

Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: A Case Study of the United States of America

Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: A Case Study of the United States of America: Interesting article. The “usual talk” about eradicating extreme poverty, but applied to an unusual suspect: the US.

Extreme poverty, defined as a composite of income p…

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