Laura Landro, How to find the latest results of clinical trials, San Francisco Chronicle, June 17, 2004 (originally in the Wall Street Journal). Excerpt: "The current push to require drug companies to disclose their unpublished clinical trials could unleash a flood of new information for doctors and patients. But in the meantime, there is already a growing effort by medical publishers, scientific groups and government agencies aimed at helping people find and interpret clinical-trials results online. Currently existing registries are run by the National Institutes of Health and a host of private organizations. Web sites like MedlinePlus.gov offer direct links to most published medical studies, which in some cases are free or else can be purchased directly from the journal. And more help is under development, such as an upcoming guide from the National Library of Medicine on understanding reports." Landro includes a very helpful guide to existing sites containing trial data, their summaries, and tools for finding and interpreting them.
Update. The link to Landro's article was broken for a while (my fault), but I've now fixed it.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/20/2004 12:54:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
