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Scout Calvert Named ARL Visiting Program Officer for Strategic Partnership to Advance Research Libraries’ Impact
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has appointed Scout Calvert as a visiting program officer effective October 1, 2019. Calvert is the data librarian at Michigan State University. As a...
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ARL Seeks Visiting Program Officer for Strategic Partnership to Advance Research Libraries’ Impact in a World Shaped by New Technologies
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and EDUCAUSE recently launched a strategic partnership to better understand how research libraries, as collaborative partners in the...
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ARL, CNI, EDUCAUSE Form Strategic Partnership to Advance Research Libraries’ Impact in a World Shaped by New Technologies
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and EDUCAUSE are working together to better understand how research libraries, as collaborative partners in the research and...
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Wikidata
In 2018, ARL convened a task force of expert Wikidata users, which recommended a variety of ways for librarians to use the open knowledge base in advancing global discovery of...
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ARL White Paper on Wikidata
In this Association of Research Libraries white paper, a task force of expert Wikidata users recommend a variety of ways for librarians to use the open knowledge base in advancing...
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ARL White Paper on Wikidata Highlights Use of Open Knowledge in Scholarly Communication, Special Collections
In a new Association of Research Libraries (ARL) white paper, a task force of expert Wikidata users recommend a variety of ways for librarians to use the open knowledge base in...
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Academy, Library Leaders Identify Actions to Promote Open Scholarship in Social Sciences
image CC-BY by Jer Thorp The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) gathered more than 30 leaders of scholarly communities, research libraries, and funding...
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ARL-SSRC Meeting on Open Scholarship in the Social Sciences: Summary and Next Steps
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) gathered more than 30 leaders of scholarly communities, research libraries, and funding organizations in December 2018 to...
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Radical Collaboration in Research Data Management Explored in Research Library Issues
The latest issue of Research Library Issues (RLI), gathers reflections by six archivists and librarians on the practice of radical collaboration applied to research data management (RDM). Archivist Nancy McGovern...
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ARL, Wikimedia, and Linked Open Data: Draft White Paper Open for Comments through November 30
In June 2018, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) charged a task force to look at Wikidata. The task force emerged from several years of discussion between ARL and the...