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Accelerating Academy-Owned Publishing: An ARL Project
How can libraries accelerate research sharing and increase participation in scholarship? What funding and partnerships do scholarly communities, open repositories, and other public-goods platforms need to transform into true, academy-owned,...
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SPEC Kit 357: Libraries, Presses, and Publishing (November 2017)
This SPEC Kit gathers information on the breadth of practice taking place at the intersection of research libraries, presses, and publishing, and on the blurring of boundaries as libraries engage...
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SPEC Survey Webcast on Libraries, Presses, and Publishing
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a series of free webcasts that present the findings from the latest SPEC surveys and allow webcast participants to discuss trends with...
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Patrick Burns Warns Journal Publishing Headed for Reckoning
In a recent article on The Conversation, Patrick Burns, dean of libraries and vice president for IT at Colorado State University and a member of the ARL Coordinating Committee, discusses...
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Libraries, Presses, and Publishing, SPEC Kit 357, Published by ARL
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released Libraries, Presses, and Publishing, SPEC Kit 357, an exploration of ARL member library publishing activity. This SPEC Kit gathers information on the...
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Calling All Digital Humanists! Make Your Work More Visible, Citable, Discoverable
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Center for Open Science (COS) need your help to understand how libraries can make digital humanities (DH) projects more visible, citable, and discoverable...
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Giao Baker Reflects on ARL-CNI Fall Forum 2017
This year’s recipient of the Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship, Giao Luong Baker, shares her impressions of the ARL-CNI Fall Forum 2017 in a blog post. The forum, sponsored by the...
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#OAWeek: Opening LIS Work with the LIS Scholarship Archive
*This is a guest blog post by Vicky Steeves, the Librarian for Research Data Management and Reproducibility at New York University. She serves on the LIS Scholarship Archive Advisory Board.*...
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ARL Member Representatives Retiring in Fall 2017
ARL’s Kaylyn Groves interviewed two of the three member representatives who are retiring in fall 2017. A bio is included in this document for the director the Association was unable...
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Happy Open Access Week: Move FASTR
This week, October 23-29, 2017, is International Open Access Week, a week to celebrate all things open access. While there are a number of events happening worldwide, those of us...