'The European Commission needs to promote access to the data whose
collection it has financed' ... 'Yet the seventh framewwork programme has
done little to promote access ot the data whose collection it will finance'
... 'As major public funders of research, the framework programmes should
develop polices to facilitate access to data generated by grant recipients'
...[1]
This is by far the best analysis and argument that I have seen.
"Full text is available to subscribers at the Publisher's Site. Free full
text will be available in PubMedCentral on February 9, 2011."
Dont wait for that. Hurry round to your family doctor and beg, borrow, or
steal her copy of the British Medical Journal for 9 February 2008 (the one
with a lurid Gilray engraving "Gout" on the front cover).
And someone should put a copy of this Editorial on the desk of every
official in the European Commission's unit RTD.F "Recherche médicale" [2]
With thanks to my own family doctor
N M
[1] "Improving access to research data in Europe"
Philipa Mladovsky, Elias Mossialos, and Martin McKee, 2008
BMJ vol 336 pp 287-288
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/336/7639/287
doi:10.1136/bmj.39409.633576.BE
[2]
http://ec.europa.eu/staffdir/plsql/gsys_www.guide?pLang=FR&pId=1903
Received on Sat Mar 01 2008 - 12:05:45 GMT