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New California Law Is Setting a Precedent for Open Access Research
With the expansion of the internet and access to resources, publishers continue to develop methods to make their publications more accessible to students and researchers. The publishers’ endeavors have resulted in a fairly new model for obtaining research publications: open access. Open access is an international idea to move data and research from the private […]
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U.S. Will Officially Withdrawal From Paris Climate Agreement Day After Next Election
In November 2019, the Trump Administration started the formal withdrawal process from the Paris Climate Agreement. The agreement was put into effect on Nov. 4, 2016, and “for the first time brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to […]
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Latest Update on Coronavirus for US
The news has been exploding over the latest happenings of the Coronavirus all over the world. However, the location of the news puts a different perspective on the virus and its effects on the population. For example, the virus is a huge topic of discussion in China of course, as its citizens have been greatly […]
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Coronavirus Epidemic Spreads Internationally
As the world just wrapped up welcoming a new year in January, a respiratory virus, commonly called the coronavirus, broke out in Wuhan, China. The virus formally referred to as the 2019 Novel Coronavirus by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has killed over 1,000 people and has infected over 31,000 in mainland […]
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New Year Brings New Laws
With the new year comes new laws surrounding marijuana use and taxes on cannabis products, the Illinois state Real ID and changes to the hourly minimum wage pay rate. While some laws have taken effect in January, such as the legalization of recreational marijuana, others will affect Illinoians further along in 2020. As of Jan. […]
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Hospitals Spark Data Economy With Patient Data Sharing
Hospitals across the nation have granted major technology companies including Microsoft Corp., International Business Machines and Amazon.com Inc. with the ability to access patients’ health records. The hospitals’ influence in the data economy plays off of a deal that was established between the medical system and large tech. companies in years prior. The digitalization of […]
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