{"id":206,"date":"2008-12-08T19:47:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T19:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openreflections.wordpress.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2008-12-08T19:47:54","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T19:47:54","slug":"science-commons-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Science Commons Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-211   aligncenter\" title=\"scicomlogo1\" src=\"http:\/\/openreflections.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scicomlogo1.gif\" alt=\"scicomlogo1\" width=\"178\" height=\"51\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">Today <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencecommons.org\/\">Science Commons<\/a>, a subdivision of the larger <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\">Creative Commons <\/a>non-profit organization, launched a short video explaining what Science Commons stands for. Science Commons, headed by <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/people\/#34\">John Wilbanks<\/a>, is a project that tries to improve scientific communication and research by making a plea to lower access barriers and to free locked-up research results. They want to \u2018accelerate the research cycle\u2019 by creating and promoting a new cooperative scientific infrastructure. From their <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencecommons.org\/about\/\">website<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent:.5in;text-align:justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u201cMany scientists today work in relative isolation, left to follow blind alleys and duplicate existing research. Data are balkanized \u2014 trapped behind firewalls, locked up by contracts or lost in databases that can\u2019t be accessed or integrated. Materials are hard to get \u2014 universities are overwhelmed with transfer requests that ought to be routine, while grant cycles pass and windows of opportunity close. It\u2019s not uncommon for research sponsors to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in critically important efforts like drug discovery, only to see them fail.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">The video is directed by director <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jesse_Dylan\">Jesse Dylan<\/a>, the director of the Emmy-award winning <a href=\"http:\/\/nl.youtube.com\/watch?v=2fZHou18Cdk\">\u201cYes We Can\u201d<\/a> Barack Obama campaign video:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">[youtube=http:\/\/nl.youtube.com\/watch?v=hZAcTNFzF-s]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Science Commons, a subdivision of the larger Creative Commons non-profit organization, launched a short video explaining what Science Commons stands for. Science Commons, headed by John Wilbanks, is a project that tries to improve scientific communication and research by making a plea to lower access barriers and to free locked-up research results. They want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,13,17],"tags":[353,368,869,898,1583],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebooks","category-free-knowledge","category-open-access","category-uncategorized","tag-copyright","tag-creative-commons","tag-jesse-dylan","tag-john-wilbanks","tag-science-commons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}