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Interviews on Implementing Effective Data Practices, Part III: Getting down into the Details
This is the third and final blog post in a three-part series on understanding the perspective of various stakeholders across the scholarly communication landscape regarding the adoption of persistent identifiers...
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Interviews on Implementing Effective Data Practices, Part II: Conference Goals
This is the second blog post in a three-part series on understanding the perspective of various stakeholders across the scholarly communication landscape regarding the adoption of persistent identifiers (PIDs) and...
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Why This Plan Now
Our societies are experiencing seismic shifts in public health, higher education, the economy, and our systems of social justice. Our physical and virtual routines are upended and uncertain as the...
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ARL’s New Action Plan
Over the last seven months, ARL has intentionally and strategically crafted an Action Plan that will guide us in supporting our members over the next two years. Above all, this...
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Interviews on Implementing Effective Data Practices, Part I: Why This Work Matters
In preparation for the December 2019 invitational conference, “Implementing Effective Data Practices,” hosted by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Public and Land-grant...
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How SCOSS Is Strengthening Global Open Access and Open Science Infrastructure
It has been nearly two years since the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) announced that it was shutting down. DPN was an early example of an open, community-governed, core-infrastructure endeavor—addressing the...
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NC State University Libraries Shift Diversity Training to Focus on Dismantling Systemic Racism
by Jennifer Garrett, Director, Talent Management, NC State University Libraries Contemporary diversity training often addresses prejudicial mindsets, unconscious bias, and “whiteness” as a normative frame. While these experiences are valuable,...
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Sovereign Immunity Boondoggle at the US Copyright Office
State sovereign immunity—the immunity of states from being sued in federal courts—is a doctrine with a long history and lots of recent controversies. This form of immunity from lawsuit has...
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Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Opposing Online Content Policy Modernization Act
On September 30, 2020, ARL joined the Re:Create coalition in sending a letter to Senator Graham, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Senator Feinstein, ranking member of the Judiciary Committee...
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Letter to US House Leadership on Fall COVID-19 Emergency Relief Bill
On September 25, 2020, ARL signed on to an ACE letter to House Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) and House Minority Leader McCarthy (R-CA) on a Fall COVID-19 Emergency Relief Bill, requesting...