12 October 2017

OpenTrials

OpenTrials is a database of clinical trials. It aims to locate, match and share all publicly accessible data and documents, on all trials conducted – on all medicines and other treatments – globally. The project is designed to increase transparency on the world’s clinical research trials and to improve access to research. The intention is to create an open, freely re-usable index of all such information, to increase discoverability, facilitate research, identify inconsistent data, enable audits on the availability and completeness of this information, support advocacy for better data and drive

06 October 2017

TREESK

Have you ever spent time trawling through legal databases in search of a single regulation which, you hope, will provide an answer to a particular environmental issue? If so, you probably know by now that a single issue usually falls within the scope of several pieces of legislation. Usually, you need to take a whole range of documents into account just to answer one question. Treesk helps you make this search easier and more effective. Treesk is a legal application for substantive work on environmental regulations. It was created by Polish lawyers for people working on environmental cases and

25 September 2017

MEPTwitter

Over 80% of the members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have a Twitter account and most tweet daily. MEP Twitter collects all current MEPs’ tweets in (almost) real time and has a powerful search facility. But it’s more than a database of tweets – it can generate statistics on trending topics and the most mentioned users over different time periods. It also provides statistics on which political issues have attracted a flurry of tweets and what issues MEPs are discussing at any given time. Find out which MEPs and/or party groups are most active on Twitter and what they’re writing about.