Re:Something Doesn't Add Up: John Ioannidis and medical stat...
by bazzargh on Sunday December 30, 2012 @08:44PM
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It's worth mentioning that there is some good news on the horizon here. Bad Pharma has prompted the UK government into action (ok, proposals of action) on unpublished trials:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267966/
And more recently, the proposed UK copyright reform - also expected to become legislation in the next year - included a specific fair dealing right for data mining on journals, like the work of Ionnadis. The publishers had been arguing that this was a separate right from reading (which the researchers have already paid for)
http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2012/june/publishers-and-...
(link is to discussion of the older Hargreaves report; the exception made it into the final proposal)
And more recently, the proposed UK copyright reform - also expected to become legislation in the next year - included a specific fair dealing right for data mining on journals, like the work of Ionnadis. The publishers had been arguing that this was a separate right from reading (which the researchers have already paid for) http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2012/june/publishers-and-... (link is to discussion of the older Hargreaves report; the exception made it into the final proposal)