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Exciting news about open access information resources in STM! SpringerOpen, a new series of open access journals that will span all STM disciplines. Articles published in SpringerOpen journals will be freely and immediately accessible online, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
New eHealth Platform TELUS health space has potential to allow Canadians manage their own healthcare. However, though access to personal health records (PHRs) online has the potential to revolutionize healthcare, there are some challenges to be overcome. The technical challenges are important, but workable. The human side -- education, tools and encouraging buy-in to the concept are crucial in determining whether the full potential of PHRs to revolutionize health care will be realized.
As announced on the CIHR website: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has partnered with the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) and the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) in the creation of this central, electronic repository for CIHR-funded research publications." This is a great new resource. I look forward to using it.