Tag Archives: open access week

Bioengineers look beyond patents

Synthetic-biology company pushes open-source models.
Open access to validated molecular components is crucial to the field’s success, says Drew Endy, a synthetic biologist at Stanford University in California. Endy says that synthetic biologists are similar to software engineers, with the genetic code as their programming language. The software industry has favoured open-source approaches and copyright protections, because inventions often come faster than patents can be acquired. The same holds for synthetic biology (...).
Nature.

Developing Blogpost: Podiumsdiskussion zu Open Science in Berlin (#oaweek)

Developing Blogpost: Podiumsdiskussion zu Open Science in Berlin (#oaweek)

Nice summary of yesterday’s talk ‘Open Science - Chancen und Herausforderungen der digitalen Wissenschaft’.

Listen also to the audio recording (in German).

See also this article on yesterday’s talk at HU Berlin. 

Cameron Neylon gives lecture at Zijzaal Refter Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Cameron Neylon gives lecture at Zijzaal Refter Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

During the Open Access Week 2012 Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director at the PLOS (Public Library of Science) will talk about the revolution in science: Zijzaal Refter Radboud University Nijmegen, Tuesday, Oct. 23rd 2012. Admisson free, subscription required.

International Open Access Week 2012

International Open Access Week 2012

On Oct. 23rd 2012, 6pm, Berlin, Germany:

Panel Discussion on Open Science, Humboldt University Berlin.

On Oct. 24th 2012, 10-11:30 am, Republic of Macedonia: 

Open Access Week will be celebrated for the 3-rd time at the Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski”/Faculty of Philosophy. As always, the lecture will be open and public and live on the Ustream open access channel @ http://www.ustream.tv/channel/open-access