An IdeaScale page was launched by US Federal officials this week to collect ideas for reducing technological barriers encountered by disabled individuals when interacting with the federal government as employees or citizens seeking services or information. This information gathering exercise…

In a memorandum issued on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, OMB directed Federal agencies to consider the cumulative effects of new regulatory requirments and take active steps to avoid them. Sunstein calls on agencies to follow several steps to identify cumulative…

The University of Virginia is set to launch a new platform through which they intend to support a thriving, interdisciplinary collaborative community called OpenGrounds. The underlying tenet of the approach being taken is to provide a catalyst for widespread collaboration,…

Registration is open for the 2012 NIH Regional Seminars. Roger Wood, InfoEd Global Sr. Product Manager will be in Indianapolis and Washington, DC for these meetings. If you would like to learn more about InfoEd Global’s Grants and Contracts solutions…

The Office of Management and Budget and Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a policy memorandum to the heads of executive departments and agencies on April 21, 2010, establishing the uniform RPPR for use by agencies supporting research and…

The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) launched a new iPhone/iPad app this week, that links to mobile versions of its reports, congressional testimony, podcasts and videos. For research administrators who like to keep up with new GAO activity, this app…

Just when you thought you were getting a handle on National Institutes of Health’s new FCOI policy… The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is soliciting comment on their proposal to carry out a survey to better understand how NSF grantees…

Today’s Federal Register includes the Advance Notice of Proposed Guidance from the Office of Management and Budget requesting public input on the ideas proposed to make the oversight of Federal funds more effective and efficient, Reform of Federal Policies Relating to Grants…

On February 27th, 2012, Elsevier announced its intention to drop support for the controversial “Research Works Act”, intended on limited public access to federally funded research outputs. Only hours afterwards, the bill’s sponsors in the US House of Representatives declared…

In the US today, publishing powerhouse Elsevier changed course and withdrew its support of HR 3699, the Research Works Act, introduced by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) on Dec. 16th. Elsevier said, “While we continue to oppose…