Mike Shanahan, Global partnership needed to avoid 'genomics divide', SciDev.Net, October 8, 2004. Excerpt: "An international partnership needs to be created to share the benefits of genomics research and apply them to the needs of developing countries, according to a report launched yesterday (7 October) at the 4th World Conference of Science Journalists. The proposed Global Genomic Initiative (GGI) is described in a report called Genomics and Global Health written by Peter Singer and colleagues from the Canadian Programme on [Genomics] and Global Health at the University of Toronto....The report outlines the researchers' vision of the global approach — the GGI — needed to realise the potential health benefits of genomics research. They suggest that genomics knowledge should be considered as a global public good, similar to the status given to biodiversity or the ozone layer....[A] summary of Genomics and Global Health will be published in the inaugural edition of the open access journal PLoS Medicine."
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Peter Suber at 10/08/2004 11:05:00 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.
