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Open Access Allows Scholars To Find Information On Nearly Anything

Karen Wentworth | Inside UNM | October 31, 2014

...When the U.S. government funds research through the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation, the researchers usually publish the results of their work in professional journals. But subscriptions to professional journals are costly...Celebrating Open Access Week was an opportunity to talk publicly about what it takes to see that the public actually has access.

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States’ Hospital Data For Sale Puts Privacy In Jeopardy

Jordan Robertson | Bloomberg | June 5, 2013

Hospitals in the U.S. pledge to keep a patient’s health background confidential. Yet states from Washington to New York are putting privacy at risk by selling records that can be used to link a person’s identity to medical conditions using public information. Read More »