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

Wed Apr 15 17:34:39 UTC 2015

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Donat Agosti <agosti at amnh.org> wrote:

>  Are there estimated on how big such a corpus on articles on Ebola would
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No idea

> Is there any Ebola bibliography available that could be the seed for
> building up such a OA library?
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We could create one.

But we must beware of only creating Open resources for major critical
situations. We don't know what ecological influences, social practices,
political studies, economic reports, cultural studies, etc. could be
relevant. We must push for everything to be fully open and re-usable and
redistributable.

I wouldn't know what the most effect way to communicate in Liberia is. It
may be networks, it may be copy shops... The point is we can't even start.

>  Donat
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> *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
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> Instead of usb sticks, i propose datafields
> <http://www.transmediale.de/content/clandestine-offline-sharing-networks>
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> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>
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> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>
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> But here's a testable, cheap, scientific experiment.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Give them to teachers, local government officials, and even school
> children.
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> Do we really think that the lack of knowledge (which is different from
> "all the world's medical facts" BTW),
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> I know it's different am trying to do something about that.
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>   was the only, or even primary, factor here?
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> Even if it's only a small contributory factor it's not excusable.
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> Peter Murray-Rust
> Reader in Molecular Informatics
> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
> CB2 1EW, UK
> +44-1223-763069
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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