I’m bad with linear time. Sometime about two months ago, my daughter was four months old. She was healthy and happy and life was good for our family. When we brought her in for her four-month vaccination, I asked our
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: open access
Creative Commons and Hope — How Open Access Journals Helped Me in a Dark Time
Posted in Education, Posts from feeds, Public Health, Quality of life, Research, Resilience Tagged with: Bianca Wylie, Creative Commons, health, open access, research, science
Information is not everything — 5 levels of data openness
Can we consider a commune to be open once it releases any information on its website? Tim Berners-Lee, one of the creators of the World… Continue reading on Medium »
Posted in Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds Tagged with: communes, FOI, Freedom of Information (FOI), Fundacja ePaństwo, information, Krzysztof Izdebski, open access, open data, Poland
2015 – that was the year that was
This time last year, the Office of Scholarly Communication at Cambridge University had been in existence for one week. As the inaugural Head of the Office, I had landed in the UK from Australia on 1 January, and was still…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Education, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Research Tagged with: funders, open access, open data, RCUK, research, research data management, researcher, scholarly communication, University of Cambridge, Wellcome Trust
OpenCon 2015 and open access in Nepal
November 14-16, 2015, Brussels witnessed OpenCon 2015, the conference for students and early career academic professionals on Open Access, Open Education and Open Data. Attendee Roshan Kumar Karn reveals more about what the conference is about.
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Education, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Smart communities Tagged with: Biomed Central, Nepal, open access, open data, open education, OpenCon 2015, Roshan Kumar Karn
Highlighting the importance of Open Access & Open Research here at Nepal
Due to the ongoing crisis situation and political instability of the country, we were unable to celebrate Open Access Week 2015 like past years. so, because of this reason we planned to organize Open Access Workshop in collaboration with Open…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Informing Decision-making, Open Government, Posts from feeds, Research, Transparency Tagged with: Kathmandu, Nepal, Nikesh Balami, open access, Open Access Nepal, open data, open government, Open Nepal, open research, research
Indian Customs Open Data
Starting today it is International Open Access Week, I have been associated with concepts of open data and open access since 2012 and was hoping to bring some serious attention to it in India. This we…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Data, Open Government, Posts from feeds, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: customs, export, import, India, open access, open data, Srinivas kodali
Open Education India #2
Our first ever Open Education Around the World post was written in September 2013: Open Education India. It highlighted work going on in India to improve education using Open Education approaches such as the open licensing of textbooks through the…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Education, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Smart communities Tagged with: Dr Mayank Trivedi, education, India, OKFN, open access, open data, open education, Open Education India, training
Flagging OER16: Open Culture
While things are quiet and people are enjoying their summer holidays (here on the Northern part of the globe!) I thought it would be a good time to mention OER16 which will take place on the 19th and 20th April…
INASP launches Open Access Week competition
INDUSTRY TRENDS 18 August 2015 Tweet INASP has launched in Open Access Week Competition for 2015. The competition is open to representatives of institutions and organisations from INASP partner or network countries. This year, Open Access Week will take place…
Posted in Innovation, Posts from feeds, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: Charities, competition, INASP, international development, open access, research, Research Information, UNESCO
Exploiting the data mine
Chemists must embrace open data to allow us to collectively get the best out of the masses of new knowledge we unearth, reports Clare Sansom
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Data, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Resilience, Saving money, Transparency Tagged with: ChEMBL database, chemical data, chemistry, Chemistry World, Clare Sansom, Data mining, data mountain, drug development, European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), knowledge, open access, open data, Research Data Alliance (RDA), text mining