Open Source Open Thread
Chemists Without Borders has been asked to take a position on open source access. Please let us know your opinions on this in comments. Please sign with first name and last initial. ELMO
Conference Call notes 6/7/06
Here are the conference call notes from last Thursday: ELMO
Chemists Without Borders Conference Call 6-15-2006
Chemists Without Borders Conference Call, 6-15-20061. Attendees1.1 Steve Chambreau1.2 Erin Orazem» See also: : Education Project1.3 Bego Gerber1.4 Stacy Don» See also: : Trademarks2. Legal issues – Steve Chambreau & Stacy Don2.1 AIDSfreeAFRICA2.2 501(c)32.3 Trademarks2.3.1 Search2.3.2 Register words2.3.3 Register hexagon2.3.4 Doctors Without Borders Charitable Education Recruitment2.3.5 Registration fees2.3.6 Stacy will create list of categories3. Feedback3.1 …
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Undo your CO2 emissions
I came across this very interesting site (Terrapass). It allows consumers to compensate for their automobiles’ CO2 emissions by paying for an equivalent amount of energy from a non-polluting source. There is also an affiliate program. I’m wondering whether we should promote the program on our website, inviting users to become affiliates, sending their revenues …
AIDSfreeAFRICA wish list
Chemists Without Borders is collaborating with AIDSfreeAfrica, a non profit organization focusing on “empowering people in Africa to produce their own essential drugs, diagnostics and diagnostic reagents, in short pharmaceuticals, by helping to build factories and a pharmaceutical infrastructure in Africa.” (Rolande Hodel) Please see the website for more info: http://aidsfreeafrica.org If you know any …
Heather’s bio (continued)
Here is the continuation of Heather’s bio from the June ’06 CWB newsletter: I encourage all Chemists Without Borders members (and, indeed, all chemists) to openly share their research. Open access is about making the results of research immediately openly available over the world wide web to anyone, anywhere. There are two main approaches to …
ACS Letter to NIH on PubChem
A letter from the American Chemical Society (ACS) to the National Institute of Health on Pubchem has been obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and posted on the SPARC Open Access Forum. The ACS apparently expects the NIH to avoid making chemistry information available, or creating links and relationships between different kinds of materials, …
Solar-powered donkey libraries
Solar-powered donkey libraries, an extension of the new Prince Rupert Library, are bringing books, literacy – and electronic gadgets, including computers and internet access – to children throughout Zimbabwe. Perhaps a future partnership opportunity for a CWB chemistry education program?
Environmental Research Letters: new OA journal
Environmental Research Letters is a new, open access journal from the Institute of Physics. ERL is the first open-access journal that will cover the whole of environmental science. ERL will serve the entire environmental science community, including both specialist researchers and the wider public, by providing free access to wide-ranging content on topics extending across …
Necessity is the mother of invention: open access, the developing world, and the cost-efficient solution
CWB members may be interested in my blogpost, Necessity is the mother of invention: open access, the developing world, and the cost-efficient solution. My point is that scientists in the developing world have far more incentive to seek cost-effective solutions than scientists in the developed world; therefore, we in the developed world can benefit cost-wise …