About this blog
The author of this blog is Jim Till. For a profile and photo, see: myprofile.cos.com/tillj16. Since 2006, I’ve chaired the CIHR Advisory Committee on Access to Research Ouputs (ACARO). I’ve also served as a member of the Executive Committee of Project Open Source|Open Access at the University of Toronto, see: open.utoronto.ca/
The title for this blog comes from an article which I co-authored (11 October 2006): “Be openly accessible or be obscure?”, www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/thoughts/061011-2630.asp
I also have a page of notes (no longer being updated), entitled: “Research ethics: Internet-based research. Part 2: Publication of research done on-line”, ca916.tripod.com/index-4.html
The purpose of this blog is to focus attention on one aspect of these notes: Open Access (OA), which I regard as an increasingly important issue from the perspective of “Macro-level” Internet research ethics.
This blog was established on November 20, 2006. The only review of it that I’ve seen was included in this blog post: Jim Till: Be Openly Accessible – or Be Obscure, by Heather Morrison, The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, 4 September 2007.
On August 28, 2008, I also began editing another blog, entitled: “Cancer Stem Cell News“:
A blog of news items related to cancer stem cells, with an emphasis on recent research and articles that are openly accessible.
