Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Thursday, June 19, 2003

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More on open access to data: "The findings [...] are based on the central principle that publicly funded research data should be openly available to the maximum extent possible. Availability should be subject only to national security restrictions; protection of confidentiality and privacy; intellectual property rights; and time-limited exclusive use by principal investigators. Publicly funded research data are a public good, produced in the public interest. As such they should remain in the public realm. This does not preclude the subsequent commercialization of research results in patents and copyrights, or of the data themselves in databases, but it does mean that a copy of the data must be maintained and made openly accessible." [FOS News]


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GVU - Global Virtual University: "The Global Virtual University (GVU) is an online university for sustainable development, and has a particular objective to meet the educational needs of the developing world." [Serious Instructional Technology]