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"TrendMD, an online tool that gives readers a way to find content relevant to their interests, while giving publishers, institutions, industry and authors the ability to target their audience.

TrendMD's business model is based on clicks, and there are two streams of revenue - publishers and sponsors.

Publishers place the TrendMD widget at the end of articles published on their websites, at no cost. Using the article content as a guide, the widget then recommends links to related studies elsewhere in the journal - keeping the reader engaged in their area of interest for as long as they want to read and, in turn, making money for the journal with every click"
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/trendmd-designed-to-help-medical-research-get-read-1.2829378?cmp=rss

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Articles relating to medicine are viewed more than 180 million times per month on Wikipedia, yet, less than 1 per cent of these have passed a formal peer review process. This opens up a unique opportunity for Cochrane, the independent, global healthcare research network, to share expertise and work with Wikipedia editors to transform the quality and content of health evidence available online.

The resource and assistance given to editors will help to encourage the inclusion of evidence within all articles and make sure that medical information included in Wikipedia is of the highest quality and as accurate as possible. Trusted, evidence based research can help people to make informed decisions about their own healthcare
http://www.cochrane.org/news/news-events/current-news/cochrane-announces-partnership-initiative-wikiproject-medicine

This is a Wikipedia book on health care, a collection of Wikipedia articles that can be easily saved, rendered electronically, and ordered as a printed book

Patients and Carers Granted Access to Over 300 Wiley Journals


Wiley Will Grant Access to Research Without Charge via patientACCESS

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has announced it will join patientACCESS, a new program which offers low-cost access to medical and scientific research articles to patients and their caregivers. From September 2013, 310 Wiley journals will join the international collaboration between publishers, the Association of American Publishers, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP), The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), and the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC).

Six publishers are participating in the launch phase of patientACCESS. In addition to Wiley they are the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Elsevier, SAGE, and Wolters Kluwer Health. Technological support is coming from the CCC.

Patients and their caregivers will be able to access relevant research papers via RightsLinkTM, CCC's point-of-content licensing program. Papers will be emailed to requestors within 24 hours, following a one-time registration step to verify their status as a patient or caregiver. Wiley will offer papers from the selected journals without charge, while CCC will levy an administrative fee of $3.50 for processing and delivering the paper

HONmedia search for free medical images in a repository of over 6,800 medical images and videos, pertaining to 1,700 topics and themes
http://www.hon.ch/Media/media.html

Lyon Declaration to advocate access of information in the UN post Development agenda, a toolkit is now available to help reaching the objectives of the declaration http://www.ifla.org/libraries-development/toolkit/

NISO Summer 2014 issue of Information Standards Quarterly
http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2014/v26no2/

This is a themed issue on the topic of Open Access Infrastructure. „The question is no longer whether open access will or should happen, but rather how will it be implemented in a sustainable way." The articles in this issue contain a wealth of insights from a wide variety of viewpoints-publishers, funders, universities, intermediaries, standards bodies, and open access experts about where are we today, what the challenges are, available routes to overcoming those challenges, and some of the initiatives that have been put in place to overcome these challenges. With links to leading open access initiatives web-sites .I think some of these articles could be included in this course as recommended reading.

Инна Купер . Ученые или научные инструменты?
Inna Kouper. Scientists or scientific instruments
http://polit.ru/article/2012/05/11/kouper/

an overview of citizen science initiatives, pro- and contra- opinions

Grajales III FJ, Sheps S, Ho K, Novak-Lauscher H, Eysenbach G. Social Media: A Review and Tutorial of Applications in Medicine and Health Care J Med Internet Res 2014;16(2):e13
http://www.jmir.org/2014/2/e13/

this is a very detailed review with practical conclusions and recommendations

Results and case studies are presented according to 10 different categories of social media: (1) blogs (eg, WordPress), (2) microblogs (eg, Twitter), (3) social networking sites (eg, Facebook), (4) professional networking sites (eg, LinkedIn, Sermo), (5) thematic networking sites (eg, 23andMe), (6) wikis (eg, Wikipedia), (7) mashups (eg, HealthMap), (8) collaborative filtering sites (eg, Digg), (9) media sharing sites (eg, YouTube, Slideshare), and others (eg, SecondLife).

"Four recommendations are provided and explained for stakeholders wishing to engage with social media while attenuating risk: (1) maintain professionalism at all times, (2) be authentic, have fun, and do not be afraid, (3) ask for help, and (4) focus, grab attention, and engage."

The potential violation of ethical standards, patient privacy, confidentiality, and professional codes of practice, along with the misrepresentation of information, are the most common contributors to individual and institutional fear against the use of social media in medicine and health care. So it is recommended that all healthcare institutions have to develop their policies that benefit patients, clinicians, public health practitioners

I have read and taught a lot about online privacy for health professionals and patients for the last years. But for this task I tried to find something different / and this peace of research seems to be interesting.
several studies have demonstrated that short-term gains and possible monetary rewards make people risk disclosing information. "Given the malleability of privacy preferences and the ubiquitous monetary cues in daily lives, the authors measured the contextual effect of reminding people about money on their privacy disclosure preferences." The results od the experiment showed that " results imply that not only do short-term rewards make people trade-off personal security and privacy, but also mere exposure to money increases self-disclosure". It is something that all have to remember when visiting such sites and providing our personal information.

Front Psychol. 2013; 4: 839.
Published online Nov 11, 2013. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00839
Money makes you reveal more: consequences of monetary cues on preferential disclosure of personal information