Dispatches from the Free Open Access Meducation frontier

Open Access: the new frontier connecting the learning commons through hassle-free and seamless scholarly communication

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Access Control: The Neglected Frontier

Access control is an indispensable security technology. However , it has been relatively neglected by the research community. Over the past ten years, the doctrine of mandatory and discretionary access controls has slowly become discredited but no dominant doctrine has emerged to replace it. There are promising candidates such as role and task-based access controls but these are still in their ...

Free Open Access Medical education (FOAM) for the emergency physician.

FOAM is ‘free open-access med(ical ed)ucation’. As such, FOAM is a dynamic collection of resources and tools for lifelong learning in medicine, as well as a community and an ethos. FOAM is continually evolving and growing rapidly, and from anarchic beginnings is increasingly attracting interest from practicing clinicians, trainees, educators, researchers and publishers alike. This article defin...

Dispatches from abroad: laughter amid the land mines.