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Federal IT Budget To Increase In 2014

Patience Wait | InformationWeek | April 11, 2013

Federal IT spending will increase nearly 2%, to $82 billion, in the fiscal 2014 budget submitted by the White House on Wednesday. It's the first significant increase in federal IT spending in four years. Read More »

Feds Resolve To Facilitate Health Data Exchange In 2013

John Pulley | Nextgov | December 27, 2012

Easing the way of a nationwide health information network will be a major priority for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in 2013, with a new funding opportunity announcement issued late last week paving the way. Read More »

Four Ways Open Access Enhances Academic Freedom

Curt Rice | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | April 30, 2013

Are politicians stealing our academic freedom? Is their fetish with open access publishing leading to a “pay to say” system for the rich? Will the trendy goal of making publicly financed research freely available skew the world of scholarship even more in the direction of the natural sciences? I don’t think so. But it took me a while to get there. Read More »

Freematics - Vehicle Telematics With Open-Source Hardware

Stanley Huang | Kickstarter | January 19, 2014

Making it possible, accessible, and affordable to carry out vehicle telematics projects with open-source hardware and mobile gadgets Read More »

From Crowdfunding To Open Access, Startups Are Experimenting With Academic Research

Danny Crichton | TechCrunch | March 3, 2014

These days may well be the next golden age for universities, and startups are leading the way. For institutions that can feel much like their counterparts from a thousand years ago, universities have witnessed breathtaking change in just a handful of years. Read More »

Fund Helps Emory Authors Get Published

Lisa Macklin and Maureen McGavin | Emory University (EU) | July 10, 2013

The Emory University Open Access (OA) Publishing Fund helped Emory University researchers publish four articles in scholarly open access journals this year, and the plan is to assist even more authors in the coming months. Read More »

Funding Crunch Hits Neglected Diseases Plan

Staff Writer | SciDev.Net | April 29, 2014

The Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) programme — a global collaborative initiative supported by the Indian government to find affordable treatment for neglected tropical diseases — has suffered a temporary setback due to a funds crunch caused by tardy submission of funding estimates. Read More »

Funding Model For Open Access Unveiled

Paul Jump | Times Higher Education | November 8, 2012

The distribution of more than £100 million in research council funding for open access article fees will be directly proportional to how much universities have charged the councils for direct labour costs over the last three years. Read More »

Furloughed VA Closes Benefits Offices, Stops Health IT Work

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | October 10, 2013

Almost 3000 IT workers and 7000 Veterans Benefits Association employees have been forced to halt work on the enormous backlog of disability claims due to the government shutdown, NextGov reports. [...] Read More »

G8 Science Ministers Endorse Open Access

Jack Grove | Times Higher Education | June 13, 2013

Science ministers from the G8 group of the world’s richest countries have jointly endorsed the need to increase access to publicly-funded research. Read More »

Groups: Billions More Needed To Address Veterans' Health Care, Benefits Issues

Matthew M. Burke | Stars and Stripes | February 6, 2014

The federal government will fall well short of meeting veterans’ health care and benefits needs in the coming years, several leading veterans service organizations said this week, and tens of billions of dollars in additional spending will be needed to adequately address the issue. Read More »

Guest Blog: Why I Publish Open Access

Simon Herald | BioMed Central | December 6, 2012

Joshua Drew, a lecturer in marine conservation biology at Columbia University, offers a personal perspective on Open Access publishing from a researcher’s point of view. Having now moved to a policy of publishing entirely in Open Access journals, he talks to BioMed Central about the benefits that this can bring to researchers wishing to get the most from their publications, together with some of the challenges that lie ahead Read More »

Half Of Taxpayer Funded Research Will Soon Be Available To The Public

Andrea Peterson | Washington Post | January 17, 2014

Proponents of the open access model for academic research notched a huge victory Thursday night when Congress passed a budget that will make about half of taxpayer-funded research available to the public. Read More »

Hawaii Beacon Touts New Successes

Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | July 9, 2013

When ONC reported to Congress last month on both the HITECH Act's achievements and the barriers left to overcome, officials cited notable progress seen across the $250 million Beacon Community projects. [...] Read More »

Health Execs Uneasy About EHR Budgets, Survey Finds

Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | June 21, 2012

About half the business administrators at hospitals or health systems who participated in a recent poll conducted by New York-based audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG said they're halfway or more done with deployment of their electronic health record system; 48 percent, however, said they're only somewhat comfortable with their organization's budget for doing so. Read More »