More Open Access at NYU
January 15, 2007 by FredThanks to everyone who stopped by for our Taking Action on Open Access Conference and special thanks to Heather, Gavin and John for providing such fantastic presentations.
Gavin Yamey will be speaking twice more at NYU later this week and we figured you might be interested in attending. Here is the information:
Restricted Access to the Medical Literature: A Global Health Crisis
Thursday January 18th, 7pm, Global Public Health Series, NYU.
Seminar Room (ground floor), Dept of Medical Parasitology, 341 East 25th Street (at 1st Ave).
Governments worldwide invest billions of dollars in biomedical research every year. In the US alone, the annual spending by the NIH is almost $30bn. Yet the results of this research—a treasury of medical knowledge—are mostly privately owned and sold only to those who can afford the costly article download fees or journal subscriptions. The world’s least-developed countries, which arguably have the greatest need to access health information, are barred from reading the essential health literature. The Public Library of Science, an international non-profit grassroots movement, wants to change this unhealthy status quo and is campaigning to make the biomedical literature a freely available global public good.
A New Era of Hope for the Neglected Tropical Diseases
Friday January 19, 2007 12:00 PM
Seminar Room (ground floor), Dept of Medical Parasitology, 341 East 25th Street (at 1st Ave).