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April 25, 2012, Geneva Henry Apr 2012

April 25, 2012, Geneva Henry

Lecture Series on E-Science

Geneva Henry, Executive Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship, Rice University. Data rights and ownership of digital research data can impact how you use data, how others use data you've collected, and how rights are determined in collaborative research. Copyright rules governing data vary from one country to the next, making data ownership in international collaborations particularly murky. Licensing the use of data sets from the start is one way to address these issues early and provide a means for easily sharing datasets that can be cited and properly attributed. This talk with introduce issues associated with digital research …


Medicines That Kill, Lina Ahmed Abushouk Mar 2012

Medicines That Kill, Lina Ahmed Abushouk

Annual Undergraduate Conference on Health and Society

The prevalence of counterfeit drugs on the African continent has been increasing at an alarming rate. “Medicines that Kill” is a research paper that attempts to analyze the factors that make African countries particularly susceptible to this global threat. Nigeria, a country that has had some of the highest rates of counterfeit drugs in the world, is the main case study for this paper. Its efforts to combat the issue are compared and contrasted with those of Tanzania and Kenya in an attempt to understand what aspects of the issue are unique to Africa and the methods that have been …


Data Management Policies And Issues With Life Science Data, Michelle Malizia Feb 2012

Data Management Policies And Issues With Life Science Data, Michelle Malizia

Lecture Series on E-Science

Data management and sharing are relatively new concepts in the health and life sciences fields. This presentation will cover some basic policies as well as the impediments to data sharing unique to health and life sciences data.


Printable Schedule, Texas Medical Center Library Feb 2012

Printable Schedule, Texas Medical Center Library

Lecture Series on E-Science

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