« As part of its ongoing commitment to scientific transparency and responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced plans to implement a new policy that will cap how much publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their research findings publicly accessible. (…) »
« Dans la foulée de l’entrée en vigueur de sa politique de gestion et partage des données, le NIH (National Institutes of Health) a annoncé le 21 février dernier une nouveau plan pour améliorer l’accès public aux résultats de la recherche financée par le NIH.…
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) have released a new report, Institutional Strategies for the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy. The report shares infrastructure, services, and policies that institutions have developed to…
« Citation data have remained hidden behind proprietary, restrictive licensing agreements, which raises barriers to entry for analysts wishing to use the data, increases the expense of performing large-scale analyses, and reduces the robustness and reproducibility of the conclusions. For the past several years, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office…
« The Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has signed an agreement with Elsevier, the information analytics company specializing in science and health, to support improving the peer review process of NIH grant applications by using Expert Lookup, Elsevier’s tool…
« In a recent BMJ article, Milton Packer highlights the value of data sharing using iconic scientific figures: Copernicus, whose heliocentric theory of the universe was built using others’ data; his rival, Brahe, who hoarded data for fear of confirming Copernicus’ theory; and Kepler, whose…
« PubMed was first released two decades ago in January 1996 as an experimental database under the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) retrieval system. The word « experimental » was dropped from the Web site in April 1997, and on June 26, 1997, a Capitol Hill Press conference officially announced…
« PubMed, the federal database of abstracts from medical and life science journals, should disclose authors’ competing interests, according to 62 scientists and physicians from around the world. The experts, along with six organizations, today urged the National Institutes of Health and its National Library of Medicine…
« Depuis la création du premier laboratoire fédéral, la « Smithsonian Institution » en 1846 jusqu’à maintenant, les laboratoires fédéraux ont été à l’origine de nombreuses innovations aux Etats-Unis. On doit cette situation à l’activité de TT qui y a lieu (…) »
