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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 not on the slides.
Review of Recent, Ongoing, and Proposed USNC/CODATA Activities
Roberta Balstad
US-China bilateral discussions [...]

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 the Stage
Openness
Patents and Innovation
Copyright Policy
Patent Reform
Innovation Inducement Prizes
Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
Innovation, Creativity and Access to [...]

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. I don’t know where it went. (Another reason to update the WordPress install on this blog.) [...]

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 archiving has been less successful [than gold OA], although government mandates are likely to increase future publication [...]