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For immediate release:
May 17, 2010

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Strategies for Opening Up Content

Special Issue of RLI Released

Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published a special issue of Research Library Issues (RLI) on strategies for opening up content. The special issue focuses on approaches now being deployed to increase the amount of content that is open and available to the research library community and by extension the larger world.

In an introductory essay, guest editor Julia C. Blixrud, ARL Assistant Executive Director, Scholarly Communication, highlights the array of institutional, library, and author strategies now in use. She encourages the community to learn from the experiences of others as a way of identifying those strategies that have the best prospects for success in their own circumstances.

Other articles in the special issue are:

• Achieving Consensus on the University of Kansas Open-Access Policy
  Ada Emmett, Associate Librarian for Scholarly Communications, University of Kansas; and
  Town Peterson, Distinguished Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Senior Curator, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas

• Improving Access with Open-Access Publishing Funds
  Greg Tananbaum, ScholarNext

• Model Language for Author Rights in Library Content Licenses
  Ivy Anderson, Director of Collections, California Digital Library, on behalf of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Author-Rights Language in Library Content Licenses

• Opening Up Content in HathiTrust: Using HathiTrust Permissions Agreements to Make Authors’ Work Available
  Melissa Levine, Lead Copyright Officer, University of Michigan Library

Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 269 (April 2010) is freely available on the Web at http://publications.arl.org/view/rli/s68n7/default.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 125 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.