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• ARL, ALA, and ACRL and Other Groups File Amicus Brief in Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc.

  On February 11, 2010, the Library Copyright Alliance members joined the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Public Knowledge (PK), and U.S. Public Interest Research Group...

• Research Library Issues, no. 262 (Feb. 2009)

  RLI issue 262 includes the following articles: The University's Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship: A Call to Action ARL Statement to Scholarly Publishers on the Global Economic...

• MINES for Libraries Final Report

  This final report of a ground-breaking study summarizes findings on 34,000 randomly captured uses of electronic resources over a 12-month period from the 21 members of the Ontario Council of...

• Letter to Lamar Smith and John Conyers re: Manager’s Amendment to Stop Online Piracy Act, H.R. 3261 (Dec. 14, 2011)

  lca_sopa_amend14dec11.pdf

• Value, Outcomes, and Return on Investment of Academic Libraries (Lib-Value) (funded by IMLS)

   alamw10-lib-value.pdf

• LCA Releases Issue Brief on Streaming Films for Educational Purposes

  This paper considers three provisions of the Copyright Act that could permit streaming of this sort: Sections 107, 110(2), and 110(1). While all three provisions may apply, Section 107 fair...

• In the Matter of Global Free Flow of Information on the Internet

  Comments from the Center for Democracy and Technology highlight the importance of liability protections for online intermediaries and the way these protections serve to maintain the Internet as a robust...

• Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T: Amicus brief in support of FCC

  Brief of Amici Curiae Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics In Washington, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, the...

• Partnering to Publish 2010: Partnering with Researchers to Share New Knowledge Through Digital Technologies

  Increasingly the university library's mission is to support scholarly communication in all its forms and to develop a range of scalable and sustainable services in support of research and publishing....

• Principles to Guide Vendor/Publisher Relations in Large-Scale Digitization Projects of Special Collections Materials

  Principles endorsed by the Association of Research Libraries Board of Directors on July 26, 2010. principles_large_scale_digitization.pdf

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