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Archive for August, 2012

CC-BY and – or versus? – open access

Thursday, August 16th, 2012

Many in the open access movement consider CC-BY, the Creative Commons Attribution license, to be the very embodiment of the spirit of the Budapest Open Access Initiative – giving away all rights to one’s work, including commercial rights, for open access. My own take on this is that while CC-BY can provide a useful tool [...]

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CBC Radio Interview August 13, 2012

Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

This clip of my CBC Radio Early Edition Interview August 13, 2012 with Kathryn Gretsinger (about 10 minutes) is a reflection on the significance of the University of British Columbia Library / Elsevier text-mining arrangement inspired by open data advocate Heather Piwowar. Thoughts on the potential for acceleration of discovery through text-mining from cancer research [...]

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