[open-science] Crucially overlooked Ebola research article is paywalled at... Elsevier

Wed Apr 15 17:23:33 UTC 2015

Are there estimated on how big such a corpus on articles on Ebola would be? Is there any Ebola bibliography available that could be the seed for building up such a OA library?

Donat

From: open-science [mailto:open-science-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Cemre Kutluay
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 7:21 PM
To: Peter Murray-Rust
Cc: Zaharevitz, Daniel (NIH/NCI) [E]; open-science
Subject: Re: [open-science] Crucially overlooked Ebola research article is paywalled at... Elsevier

Instead of usb sticks, i propose datafields<http://www.transmediale.de/content/clandestine-offline-sharing-networks> :)

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk<mailto:pm286 at cam.ac.uk>> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com<mailto:tfmorris at gmail.com>> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk<mailto:pm286 at cam.ac.uk>> wrote:

But here's a testable, cheap, scientific experiment.
put all the world's medical facts onto 10000 memory sticks (or mobile phones, or Raspberry Pis, or whatever) and send them to an anglophone West African country (because the literature is in English). Monitor reported health outcomes after 10 years. Compare with a neighbouring country which didn't have the memory sticks.

Liberia has 51 doctors<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_in_Liberia> (ie one for every 76,000 citizens).  What would you do with the other 9,949 sticks?

Give them to teachers, local government officials, and even school children.

Do we really think that the lack of knowledge (which is different from "all the world's medical facts" BTW),

I know it's different am trying to do something about that.

was the only, or even primary, factor here?

Even if it's only a small contributory factor it's not excusable.

--
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069<tel:%2B44-1223-763069>

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