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Liveblog: BRDI: Review of CODATA Activities

I’m liveblogging the first meeting of the new Board on Research Data and Information today and yesterday. Standard liveblogging disclaimers apply. The presentation slides are on the meeting site. Because some of the slides are online, I’ll focus on what’s … Continue reading

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TACD IP conference review

Here are my liveblog posts from Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: The Next Four Years, hosted by Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (Washington, DC, January 12-13, 2009), in the order of the sessions [not necessarily the order I posted them]: Setting … Continue reading

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Liveblog: TACD IP: Technical difficulties

I wasn’t able to get online earlier this morning, but I have been taking notes, so I’ll edit and post them later. I’ll liveblog the rest of the sessions for the today. Yesterday, my post on the openness session… disappeared. … Continue reading

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Lancet editorial highlights 2 aspects of OA

An editorial in this week’s Lancet (free registration required, or see the excerpt at Open Access News) highlights two interesting aspects of open access. First, though, some quibbles: The editorial claims that open archiving hasn’t been very successful (specifically: “open … Continue reading

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