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Journals: you can’t publish without us so please work with us

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September 30, 2011

A couple of great posts from other bloggers on the peer review process, journal publishing and the open access movement: Peers, review your actions by Michael Taylor on September 29th, 2011 Access to scientific publications should be a fundamental right by petermr on September 30th, 2011 I’m excited that others are sharing their thoughts...
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Deb Matthews, Minister of Health and Long–Term Care Webchat Transcript: Ontario Liberal Party plan for health care

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September 24, 2011

Deb Matthews, Minister of Health and Long–Term Care Webchat Transcript: Ontario Liberal Party plan for health care Tuesday September 20, 2011 8:00 pm Note: This transcript is also available on Facebook. Each comment or question is followed by a time stamp indicating when it was posted. Inclusion of this transcript is for informational purposes...
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Technology, the knowledge economy and how academia should respond

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September 17, 2011
Technology, the knowledge economy and how academia should respond

We need not look far for examples of the massive change the Internet has brought upon us. Take the music industry for example. Like water finding the path of least resistance people started to find ways to create and exchange copies of songs for free. There has been much speculation as to why this...
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Data Part 2 – When you can’t collect it, find it elsewhere. And get the patients involved.

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September 8, 2011
Data Part 2 – When you can’t collect it, find it elsewhere. And get the patients involved.

Another way to obtain data for use in research studies is to find sources in which it has already been collected. There are many organizations that record data either for their own purposes or as their mandate. Obtaining data in the former circumstance may be difficult due to privacy issues. However, Statistics Canada as...
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What is the definition of social media within a healthcare context?

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August 1, 2011

Healthcare social media (hcsm) can be defined as the interactive engagement through use of electronic platform(s) for the multi-directional exchange of user-generated information, knowledge, data and wisdom including anecdotal experiences amongst patients, their families, healthcare professionals, health researchers and healthcare administrators. 1 answer on Quora What is the definition of social media within a...
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Data: harder to find and share than one might think

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July 22, 2011
Data: harder to find and share than one might think

A first person account of conducting a research study, from conceptualization, collecting the data through to publication.
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Convergence: grid design and knowledge translation

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July 3, 2011
Convergence: grid design and knowledge translation

The use of grid design in knowledge translation and research.
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TwitSprout Twitter Dashboard Review: Pretty Pictures with Little Value

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June 12, 2011
TwitSprout Twitter Dashboard Review: Pretty Pictures with Little Value

This article reviews TwitSprout new Twitter Dashboard. It provides comments and feedback on each of the metrics provided by the analysis of my Twitter account @ogradylaura. In summary most of the metrics provided are of little value because they lack context and do not investigate the content of the tweets in relation to the...
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The crowdsourcing of tagging: a form of sensemaking

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June 4, 2011

Peter Wylie recently wrote, “As the Internet continues to accumulate more and more information, it becomes increasingly difficult to sort and prioritize that information in a way that provides optimal relevance for each individual user”. In this post Peter also describes Blekko, a search engine that requests users to rank the relevance of their...
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Two steps forward (open source, open access), one step back (open data)

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May 29, 2011

For many years the open source (shareware, freeware) movement has flourished. Linux is considered, “one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration”. Repositories such as www.shareware.com and www.tucows.com provide a centralized distribution method for individual programmers to increase the reach of their product. The open access movement in academia...
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