Learning with the Fang

My RSS reader is helping me triangulate my way toward the pointy end of the Open Science movement. Today, this article from ScienceCommons blog gave me three encouraging clues:

1. I am not the only crazy dude who thinks Creative Commons ‘Attribution’ is a good open license.
2. Some Aussie researchers have made news thru their open publishing of research into African sleeping sickness.
3. Two usual suspects – Wired magazine and Cory Doctorow are involved

In the first, as Aaron Rowe at Wired News reported and Cory Doctorow blogged, a pair of researchers from Australia developed a blood test for African sleeping sickness — a relatively simple test that Rowe points out can be conducted without the “fancy equipment found in upscale medical labs.” Notably, the researchers published the findings at PLoS One under a Creative Commons Attribution License — making freely available not only the results but the lab protocols for conducting the test itself.

So now I am subscribed to the PLoS (Public Library of Science) RSS feed for neglected tropical diseases and will have to start reading Cory and Wired again.
Fang – Mike Seyfang

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