Drug research openness promised, BBC News, January 6, 2005. An unsigned news story. Excerpt: 'Results of all industry clinical trials will be published on the internet later this year under plans drawn up by pharmaceutical trade associations. The database is voluntary but all the major pharmaceutical companies are said to have signed up to it. The move follows years of pressure on drug firms to publish negative results....Dr Richard Barker, director general of the ABPI, said: "The industry recognises that there are important public health benefits associated with making clinical trial information more widely available to healthcare practitioners, patients and others. "By publishing not just the results of trials that have taken place - whether positive or negative - but also those that are just starting, the industry has made a major step towards achieving greater transparency." Trade associations across Europe and in the US and Japan have signed up to the plan.' (Thanks to David Prosser.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/06/2005 06:09:00 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.
