I’ve just heard about the Open Research Reports initiative, an idea to make disease research as openly accessible as possible to the people that really need it. Open Research Reports aim to pull together the corpus of open access literature on a certain disease and also create a mechanism of extracting the important information from [...]
In preparation for the workshop, the project constructed a number of scenarios to help think through examples of how web-based, biomedical information resources, technologies and communities could support translation of emerging research findings into plain English. These scenarios were not intended as suggested services, but rather the aim was to stimulate group discussion and invite [...]
The project with the closest idea to that being investigated in Patients Participate! that we have identified so far is the acawiki.org site. It is a general site run on a wiki platform, that invites summaries of academic articles to make them more accessible. “AcaWiki is building a community of scholars, graduate students, and bloggers [...]