BioMed Central has just launched Open Access and the Developing world, a portal that focuses on the benefits of open access to scintific and medical literature for developing countries.
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I'm doing a session at the Ontario Library Conference tomorrow with a few colleagues. The topic is Creative Commons licensing and I'm doing the section on Open Data. It's a kind of a replay of what we did for library staff about a year ago.
Here's the info this time:
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