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Back in November last year, I wrote about a particular class of open data - that regarding clinical trials data. I pointed out that of...

Yesterday I was writing about open access and open data in the context of the EU' s Horizon 2020 initiative. Closer to home, I came...

People have started to wake up to the fact that companies like Google and Facebook hold huge quantities of data about their users. That r...

The first copyright law, the Statute of Anne - which definitively moved copyright away from its original roots in state censorship - was : A...

A Microsoft researcher offers an interesting medical metaphor : Just as when an individual who is not vaccinated puts others’ health at risk...

The virtues of free are pretty inarguable, but advocating the open release of stuff inevitably begs the question: but how do you make a livi...

If this participation thing is so great, why don't we apply it to something really important, like medicine? Why not, indeed ? Welcome ...

Here's a wonderful demonstration that the simple fact of transparency can dramatically alter outcomes - and, in this case, save lives: ...

Just because Wikipedia is wonderful (well, mostly) doesn't mean that there's no room for other wikis serving narrower domains. For ...

Or could do : The bewildering variety of new medical devices in U.S. hospitals promises higher standards of care. But it also poses new oppo...

The message is spreading within the citadel: Other than in the realm of life-saving medicine, why should any of this matter to nonacademics...

The British Medical Journal is a fine institution, with a long and glorious history of publishing important medical research. On top of th...

One of the themes these postings hope to explore is the way in which openness, in all its forms, can function as an antidote to the worst e...