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Information Today February 25, 2013 Abby Clobridge	U.S. Takes Huge Step Forward in Opening Access to Publicly Funded Research During a flurry of announcements over the past 2 weeks, the world has watched as two major developments were launched from the U.S. federal government that will open access to articles produced as a result of grant funding from key U.S. agencies.
Information Today February 21, 2013 Miriam A. Drake	GPO's Mission Is Validated by an Independent Study The report affirms GPO's mission of authenticating, preserving, and distributing Federal information and recommends measures to strengthen the agency's business model and activities for the future.
National Defense March 2013 Valerie Insinna	Navy Surface Fleet Faces Rough Waters Trying to Maintain Ships The service is trying to revamp its maintenance policies to include more inspections, new technology and a shift in culture. They will likely have to deal with budget cuts that make it more difficult to maintain ships, Navy and industry officials said.
National Defense March 2013 Dan Parsons	Industry Shooting for Army's First New Rifle in Half Century The M16's streak as the longest-running standard U.S. infantry rifle could be ended later this year when the Army announces results from two years of sorting through candidates for the "individual carbine" competition.
National Defense March 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Industry and Government Butt Heads Over Weapons Maintenance Contracts Repairing and maintaining decades-old inventory has been big business for the defense industry, and will continue to be despite funding cuts that will hit the Pentagon over the next several years.
AFP eWire February 14, 2013	Fundraising Chief Watt Calls on Congress to Preserve Charitable Deduction, Look at New Ways to Invest in Communities Andrew Watt, the president and CEO of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, called the charitable deduction a "powerful symbol of American philanthropy" and urged Congress to preserve the deduction.
Information Today February 14, 2013	U.S. Government Printing Office Joins Pinterest Connecting people through "things" they find interesting is the founding principle of Pinterest and a natural fit with GPO's core mission of Keeping America Informed on the three branches of the federal government.
Information Today February 14, 2013	NISO and OAI Release Draft for Comments of 'ResourceSync Framework Specification' The ResourceSync joint project, funded with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and JISC, was initiated to develop a new open standard on the real-time synchronization of Web resources.
Food Processing February 2013 Dave Fusaro	FSMA Changes Pest Control for Food Manufacturers The Food Safety Modernization Act and Global Food Safety Initiative audits make processors rethink their pest management programs.
National Defense March 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	A Fresh Perspective on Government Waste Amid the screaming and gnashing of teeth over the looming cuts is the inconvenient reality that government -- and the Pentagon more than any other agency -- is bloated and now might be an opportune time to put it on a crash diet.
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