The government wants to make all publicly funded research available – but the same must be demanded of pharmas also.

Cory Doctorow’s column series Digital Rights, Digital Wrongs for The Guardian.

Read also this blog entry on open access to all data from clinical trials by Tom Jefferson, member of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

This article on how open data can save money refers to Tom Jefferson’s blog entry advising that

pharmaceutical companies must release all the results of their clinical trials as open data, so that independent researchers can check what has been found.