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The National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s new 'public access' policy, which asks authors to provide any of their scientific papers reporting results of NIH-funded work to the agency for free [...]

* Getting academics to volunteer their time to peer review scientific papers is becoming a lot more difficult, as more and more demands are placed upon the time of researchers, [...]

Nils Hasselmo plans to step down April 1 after nearly eight years as president of the Association of American Universities (AAU), the club of 60 US and two Canadian research [...]

From the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP): National Aeronautics Research and Development Policy (13 pp., no charge), prepared in response to a congressional directive, the report [...]

From the Worldwatch Institute: Vital Signs 2006-2007: Economic Gains Mask Underlying Crisis ($16.95 plus shipping), the environmental group's trademark glum assessment of the world's future is tempered with a few [...]

From the Department of Energy Office of Inspector General (OIG): Management Controls Over Patent and Royalty Income at Ames Laboratory (OAS-M-05-05, no charge), despite its tiny size relative to the [...]

Over the summer, Paul Robinson, the director and president of Sandia National Laboratories, led a delegation of directors of seven DOE national laboratories to meet with nine of their Russian [...]

From the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC): Revolutionizing Health Care Through Information Technology (60 pp., no charge), despite the advances that have been made in healthcare technology, the medical [...]

Following a lengthy public sector career that included a stint as Chief of Naval Operations, chairman of President Reagan's AIDS Commission, and secretary of energy under President Bush, Admiral James [...]

Bowing to budget realities, the largest professional society for biomedical researchers has sharply reduced its recommendation for funding of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), calling for a 5% increase [...]

While hydrogen has grabbed the spotlight as the favored automobile fuel of the future, most experts agree that it won't be ready for the mass market until at least 2020. [...]