Geoffrey Fowler wrote an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal: We Need the Right to Repair Our Gadgets. He describes how manufacturers have made it difficult for us to fix our personal tech gadgets (The Guardian concluded the same earlier this year), and discusses how he's managed to overcome some of those obstacles. As I was reading it, I kept thinking, boy, replace "gadgets" with "our bodies" and "manufacturers" with "health care professionals," and he could be talking about health care.
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Academic Spring: How an Angry Maths Blog Sparked a Scientific Revolution
Alok Jha | The Guardian | April 9, 2012
Alok Jha reports on how a Cambridge mathematician's protest has led to demands for open access to scientific knowledge. Read More »
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Author Collectives Signal a New Chapter for Self-publishing
Alison Flood | Guardian | April 30, 2012
With online groups working to sift out the hidden gems, and a New York co-operative instituting a 'seal of quality', is the world of independent publishing finally getting organised? Read More »
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Harvard University Says It Can't Afford Journal Publishers' Prices
Ian Sample | The Guardian | April 24, 2012
Exasperated by rising subscription costs charged by academic publishers, Harvard University has encouraged its faculty members to make their research freely available through open access journals and to resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls. Read More »
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How Project Daniel Is Crafting Prosthetic Limbs With 3D Printers
Danielle Restuccia | VOXXI | April 7, 2014
Project Daniel is a rare beacon of light in the otherwise war-torn area of South Sudan: researchers recently pioneered 3D printing as a means of building prosthetic arms for child amputees. According to the official press release, Project Daniel—which is funded by Not Impossible, LLC—opened the “world’s first 3D-printing prosthetic lab and training facility” in the Nuba Mountain region of Sudan.
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Life After Elsevier: Making Open Access to Scientific Knowledge a Reality
Tyler Neylon | The Guardian | April 24, 2012
Academic publishing is in the midst of an upheaval. The internet has transformed the ability to disseminate knowledge, a capacity once exclusive to publishers. Despite this, the exorbitant profit margins of academic publishers – who often do not pay their authors, editors and reviewers – continue to grow unchecked while library budgets shrink as a percentage of university spending. Read More »
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More on Open Access Publishing
Stephen Pincock | Nature.com | March 27, 2013
Over the past 20 years, open-access publishing has become a major part of the scholarly landscape. It is now common in astronomy, maths and physics, where most researchers submit their work to the open-access repository arXiv.org before it is published, and is on the rise in the life sciences and other fields....Worldwide, more than 200 institutions and 80 research funders require their researchers' work to be open access, according to the Roarmap registry (roarmap.eprints.org). Read More »
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No Place To Hide: A Conservative Critique Of A Radical NSA
Conor Friedersdorf | The Atlantic | May 14, 2014
Glenn Greenwald's new book is far more grounded in traditional American norms, laws, and values than the surveillance programs it is critiquing...
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Open, Free Access to Academic Research? This Will Be a Seismic Shift
David Willetts | The Guardian | May 1, 2012
Opening up access to academic research will put more data and power in the hands of the people who pay for it. Read More »
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Opening Europe's Data
Jonathan Gray | The Guardian | December 9, 2011
The European Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive was created in order to try to change this - to unlock Europe's data and to realise its value to society. Adopted in 2003, and implemented (at least in principle) by EU Member States in 2005, the Directive has the potential to become the basis for 'open by default' information policies across Europe. But has it opened Europe's data? Not exactly - at least not yet.
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Persistent Myths About Open Access Scientific Publishing
Mike Taylor | The Guardian | April 17, 2012
A spate of recent articles in the Guardian have drawn attention to lots of reasons why open access to research publications is reasonable, beneficial and even inevitable. But two recent letters columns in the Guardian...have perpetuated some long-running misconceptions about open access that need to be addressed. Read More »
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Revealed: The NSA’s Secret Campaign to Crack, Undermine Internet Security
Jeff Larson, Nicole Perlroth, Scott Shane | ProPublica, New York Times | September 5, 2013
Newly revealed documents show that the NSA has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption that automatically secures the emails, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world. The project, referred to internally by the codename Bullrun, also includes efforts to weaken the encryption standards adopted by software developers. Read More »
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The Majority Of Public School Students In The South And West Are Poor.
Daniel Luzer | Washington Monthly | October 21, 2013
For the first time since the 1960s and the desegregation of public schools the majority of children in public schools in the South and the West are poor. That’s according to a new study released by the Southern Education Foundation (SEF), which also indicated that such trends are likely to spread across the whole country if trends continue.
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The Right to Repair Ourselves
By Kim Bellard | September 13, 2015
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Wellcome Trust Joins 'Academic Spring' to Open Up Science
Alok Jha | The Guardian | May 9, 2012
One of the world's largest funders of science is to throw its weight behind a growing campaign to break the stranglehold of academic journals and allow all research papers to be shared online. Read More »
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Wikipedia Founder to Help in [UK] Government's Research Scheme
Alok Jha | The Guardian | May 1, 2012
The [UK] government has drafted in the Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to help make all taxpayer-funded academic research in Britain available online to anyone who wants to read or use it. The initiative, which has the backing of No 10 and should be up and running in two years, will be announced by the universities and science minister, David Willetts, in a speech to the Publishers Association on Wednesday.
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