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ARL Disappointed in Senate’s Passage of Flawed Cybersecurity Bill
On October 27, 2015, the U.S. Senate voted 74-21 to pass the flawed Cyberinformation Sharing Act (CISA), a slightly modified version from the bill that passed the House of Representatives...
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IPEDS Survey Adopts New Definitions Based on Academic Library Community Input—Register for ARL Webinar
image CC-BY-SA by Visha Angelova The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Academic Libraries Component is adopting revised definitions for FY 2015 as a result of recommendations made by a...
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LCA Pleased Librarian of Congress Expands Film Clip Exemption
The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) welcomed the decision issued by the Librarian of Congress to broaden the exemption for the use of film clip excerpts, including extending the exemption permitting...
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New 1201 Rules on Exemptions to Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Protection Measures Released
On October 27, 2015, the Library of Congress released its final rules for the current cycle of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) Section 1201 rulemaking, setting forth exemptions from the...
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ARL Fall Forum 2015: Global Partnerships in Digital Scholarship
Presented by Geoffrey Boulton on October 8, 2015, at the ARL Fall Forum, "Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences," in Washington, DC. ff15_boulton-global-partnerships.pdf
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ARL Fall Forum 2015: Emerging Models in Humanities Publishing—Institutional Implications
Presented by Carolyn Walters, Gary Dunham, Jason Baird Jackson, Meredith Kahn, Lisa Macklin, and Charles Watkinson on October 8, 2015, at the ARL Fall Forum, "Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship...
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ARL Fall Forum 2015: Data Sharing as Publishing—A View from Archaeology
Presented by Eric C. Kansa on October 8, 2015, at the ARL Fall Forum, "Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences," in Washington, DC. ff15_kansa-data-sharing-as-publishing.pdf
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ARL Fall Forum 2015: Space for Digital Scholarship
Presented by Rachel S. Franklin on October 8, 2015, at the ARL Fall Forum, "Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences," in Washington, DC. ff15_franklin-space-for-digital-scholarship.pdf
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New Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1201 Rules Released
On October 27, 2015, the Library of Congress released its final rules for the current three-year cycle of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) Section 1201 rulemaking. The updated rules...
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Strategic Approaches for Assessment Professionals (invitation only)
A follow-up in-person meeting for participants in the March and November 2014 and May and October 2015 sessions of "Leading a Strategic Assessment Program in a Research Library: An ARL...