Point-of-Care Information in Open Access: A Time to Sow?
Taking care of patients requires access to recent and reliable information. In high-income settings, what once...
Read the Paper Data Access for the Open Access Literature: PLOS’s Data Policy
Data are any and all of the digital materials that are collected and analyzed in the...
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The Role of Open Access in Reducing Waste in Medical Research
Twenty years ago an editorial by Doug Altman in the BMJ [1], “The Scandal of Poor...
Read the Paper Health and medical research for all: The challenge remains open
Fifteen years ago in October, PLOS Medicine was launched with the intent to reinvent the medical...
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Towards Open and Equitable Access to Research and Knowledge for Development
There is growing recognition that the capacity to conduct research and to share the resulting knowledge...
Read the Paper Could an Open-Source Clinical Trial Data-Management System Be What We Have All Been Looking For?
In Europe, it is a legal requirement to conduct clinical trials in accordance with the International...
Read the Paper An open source pharma roadmap
The scientific and medical community has discovered and developed many groundbreaking medicines that have had a...
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Flavor-cyber-agriculture: Optimization of plant metabolites in an open-source control environment through surrogate modeling
Food production in conventional agriculture faces numerous challenges such as reducing waste, meeting demand, maintaining flavor,...
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Attacks on healthcare facilities as an indicator of violence against civilians in Syria: An exploratory analysis of open-source data
Background Grasping the human cost of war requires comprehensive evaluation of multiple dimensions of conflict. While...
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How do novice and improver walkers move in their home environments? An open-sourced infant’s gait video analysis
Objective Natural independent walking mostly occurs during infant´s everyday explorations of their home environment. Gait characteristics...
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