Victoria Stagg Elliott, Drug controversies prompt call for clinical trial registry, American Medical News, July 5, 2004. Excerpt: "Clinical trial registries are not a new concept. More than 300 exist. The largest, run by the National Institutes of Health, is available online....Advocates say the sheer number of registries makes the process of finding trials too cumbersome for patients and scientists alike. And many trials aren't registered anywhere. Also, no repositories include unpublished data resulting from trials....There is significant concern, however, about making unpublished data, which have not yet gone through the peer-review process, more publicly available....While scientists are worried about how lay people would interpret such information, pharmaceutical companies are worried about another angle -- trade secrets....Still, advocates say that much of the information companies are seeking to protect is already out there. A universal trial registry would simply make it easier to find. Such a repository would also make companies less likely to be accused of hiding things."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/28/2004 09:49:00 AM.
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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
