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CORDIS — European repository & portal for EU research

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News from the Frankfurt Bookfair

…”Additionally, the EU’s Publications Office offered a discussion of CORDIS, the primary repository and official dissemination portal of EU-funded research projects and results. Its presentation sought to answer the question, ‘How do we find the best partners for new research projects?’ The presentation demonstrated CORDIS’ new interactive platform for fostering cross-European partnerships in research including collaborative tools, RSS, blogs and online communication with special emphasis on current social networking trends.”

Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter.

‘Open Science’ report — part of the UK’s “Research 3.0”

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JISC releases ‘Open Science’ report – 13 Nov 2009

"The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), UK, has released a report as part of its ‘Research 3.0 – driving the knowledge economy’ activity, which launches at the end of November. The new ‘Open Science’ report trails key research trends that could purportedly have far-reaching implications for science, universities and the UK society."

"The report looks at how technologies can support the open movement to share data, workflows, methods and research outputs. It also illustrates the vital role librarians could have in supporting these new trends and the recognised need to build relationships between researchers and librarians to support the research of the future."

"Open Science — the future for research?"  Link to this press release:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/11/openscience.aspx

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Open-source, collaborative drug development!?

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Biochemist calls for ‘open-source’ R&D revolution

 Source: Today’s FierceBioResearcher newsletter

University of Toronto biochemist Aled Edwards has been one of the leading champions of the open-source research movement in drug development. And he has some interesting numbers to back up his calls for a revolution in research.

There are, he says, 600,000 scientists around the world who are engaged in developing new drugs. And they spawn about 20 new therapies each year. That means that it now takes 30,000 lab-years to produce a single new drug at a cost of billions of dollars. The entire process is marked by secrecy and it is increasingly inefficient and wasteful.

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