Discussing the Role of Semantic Web Technologies
The term “Semantic Web” has been around for a while; the concept or hope that the entire web’s resources, data, and applications would be able to speak to each other…
Author: Roger Wood
NIH Approves Boston Univ. Infectious Diseases Lab
After a final risk assessment and consideration of public comment, NIH published its final approval notice for a new state-of-the-art National Biocontainment Laboratory – the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories…
Update: US Federal Research Funding
The state of federal research funding in the US remains tenuous at best. Late Tuesday night, the US House of Representatives passed HR 8, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of…
Research.gov – NSF’s Grants Management Solution
Research.gov is the grants management system of the National Science Foundation (NSF). It is a web portal providing access to a variety of research-related public information and grants management services.…
NIH to Begin Enforcing its Open Access Policy
With the publication of NOT-OD-12-160, the National Institutes of Health notified grant recipients that they will begin enforcing their public access policy in Spring, 2013 coincident with the final implementation…
InfoEd PD Support for NIH Multi-Project Applications as they Transition to Electronic Submission
National Institutes of Health (NIH) multi-project or complex applications including most P and U series applications as well as a few other activity codes, are the last remaining NIH applications…
US Congressional Records Become More Accessible for Research Administrators
Research Administrators Can Easily Access Congressional Bills and Other Information The Library of Congress launched the Congress.gov website on September 19, 2012. Congress.gov is designed to provide free public access…
8.2% Reduction in US Science Budgets if Sequestraton is Implemented
No one ever expected that the across-the-board, draconian funding cuts identified as “sequestration” to be implemented. However, that’s just what will happen on January 2, 2013 unless the essentially dysfunctional…
NIH Announces 81 High Risk-High Reward Awards
NIH Announced 81 awards – 10 Pioneer awards, 51 New Innovator awards, and 20 Transformative Research awards – with total funding of approximately $155 million in 2012. These High Risk-High…
UK Pledges ￡10 million Toward Open Access
Following up on recommendations from the Finch Report, the UK government will spread￡10 million among 30 institutions receiving funding through the Research Councils and UK higher education funding councils to…