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Demonstrating Impact in the Social Sciences — and Thinking Like a Social Scientist
Guest blog post by Judy Ruttenberg, director, Scholars and Scholarship, ARL “I am more than my H-Index,” is a popular laptop sticker in the open science community, where the index—a...
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Opportunities for Libraries in the AI Ecosystem
Guest post by Cynthia Hudson-Vitale, head, Research Informatics and Publishing, Penn State University Libraries Artificial intelligence (AI) for data discovery and reuse was the topic of a recent conference sponsored...
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ARL Member Representatives Retiring or Stepping Down in Spring/Summer 2019
ARL’s Kaylyn Groves interviewed two of the three member representatives who are retiring or stepping down in spring/summer 2019. A bio is included in this document for the director the...
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Marrakesh Treaty Enters Into Force in the United States
Today, May 8, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) administered Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled enters...
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Scientist Aims to Optimize Science through Data Analysis
Why would a school of information science have a biologist and physicist on its faculty? Jevin D. West, assistant professor at the University of Washington iSchool and co-director of the...
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TOME Brings Scholars’ Books to Wider Audience
What good is a book if people can't read it? Calvin L. Warren, assistant professor at Emory University, studies “concerns of black existence, such as justice, anti-black violence, and black...
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Libraries Open World of Knowledge for People with Visual Disabilities
On April 23, 2018, World Book and Copyright Day, Gulnaz Juzbaeva made history by borrowing a book. “One of the main obstacles I’ve encountered in school and university is the...
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Coalition Partners
American Council on Education American Council on Learned Societies Coalition for National Science Funding Confederation of Open Access Repositories Consortium of Social Science Associations International Alliance of Research Library Associations...
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Why Research Libraries Support an Open Internet
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Save the Internet Act, a bill designed to restore the net neutrality protections put into place in 2015 by the...
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Affordable College Textbook Act Reintroduced in Congress
Today, US Senators Durbin (D-IL), King (I-ME), Smith (D-MN) and Sinema (D-AZ) and US Representative Neguse (D-CO) re-introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act. The bill would create a grant program...