January 5th 2010

Time: 5 pm-6 pm (11 to 12 Noon EST; 5 pm GMT+1)
Dial-in Number: +1-218-339-2626
Participant Access Code: 869851
Participants: Dianne Kaseman, Parvathi Chandrasekar, Gerry Hahttp://oerc.wikidot.com/january-5th-2010nley, Ian Magrath, Lawrence S. Lessin

NB: Since Julie will be in France until January 17th 2010, Parvathi will take down the minutes of OERC conference calls and post them on the wiki site.

Minutes:

OLD BUSINESS:

1. Subscribers/contributors (Larry)

  • Larry contacted a number of individuals. No response to email from Tom Fahey. Dianne mentioned that Tom Fahey is out of the country because of his role as a international medical coordinator. A call may help. Larry has tried contacting a few doctors from Washington hospital center and not heard from them yet.
  • Is there any new content from any contributors?
    • 141 materials in the cancer collection. When we started we had about 69 contributions. Apart from the broad category, 53 materials are within specific cancer areas. Hence, there has been some progress.
    • The site is enabling a community building. Many people have joined the site. There are 250 membership groups and 11 people from health care have contributed. There is a group of people who are becoming active.
    • 32 people who are designations in cancer area have joined the site
    • Ian - INCTR is building a Faculty where relationships are developed with the universities. Eventually, there is a potential chance to ask these folks to join the site and contribute material.
    • Ian - How slow or fast is the progress? Gerry - We implemented in October, In 3 months, we have 350 people joining the site, which is good marketing. The cancer area designators may be multidisciplinary.
    • Dianne expressed concern about marketing OERC/Merlot. There is probably a need to develop a marketing plan with appropriate steps.
  • Electronic journals, Ian has sent them. INCTR is getting associated with e cancer medicine. Gordon McVie is the editor of this journal. He was once Director of a Cancer Institute in Holland, then CEO of the Cancer Research Campaign before it merged with ICRF to create Cancer Research UK. It may be beneficial to have a look at the e journal site. Open access and free, registration is needed.
  • There are 3 ways to link up the journal to the OERC site.
    • 1 - OERC teaching comments - highlight that it is open access journal
    • 2 - Specific articles - Whenever they send out a new issue on the journal, batch upload it. But registration will be needed to access the article.
    • 3 - It might be possible for the Journal to allow people coming from a specific site like merlot to bypass the registration process.
  • The http:www.ecancermedicalscience.com site could bring with it some other interesting relationships, e.g., with Richard Sullivan from London's King's college, who was formerly director of the CRUK clinical research program and interested in "oncopolicy" and defining cancer resources in India.
  • Possibly we could get the journal to run an "ad" as it were, to get its readers to contribute to the OERC website.
  • Ian will email Gordon from ecancermedicalscience.com, and connect him to Gerry - Action Item

2. Funding opportunities (Anil, Parvathi)

  • Parvathi informed the committee about the progress in the CFC application.

3. TVRC (Anil, Cedric, Ian)
No Comments

4. OERC Advisory Committee (Larry,Anil)

  • Two letters have been sent out inviting people to be on the board. Others are about to sent.
  • There is a plan to schedule a webinar in January or Feb 2010. Ian is exploring Dimdim and will inform or even test it with committee members so that a decision can be made about using it for a web conferencing facility.
  • Testing Dimdim as a websinar service - Action Item
  • Internet2 would be an alternative. This is a sophisticated networking tool that allows interactions among users. It is a new fibre-optic netword being developed by a consortium of universities.
  • Web 2.0, by contrast, is a the social media tool using existing internet facilities.

5. The agenda for the next call will focus on planning for the webinar with regard to connections, cost etc - Action Item

Next call scheduled on January 12, 2010.

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