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ARL Urges Elsevier to Revise Policy That Impedes Sharing of Scholarship
In April 2015, Elsevier announced a new sharing and hosting policy for Elsevier journal articles, which imposes excessive restrictions on authors and institutions, employs embargo periods that are counter to...
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9th Circuit Holds Fair Use Must Be Considered Before DMCA Takedown Notices are Sent
On September 14, 2015, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in Lenz v. Universal Music that "copyright holders must consider fair use before sending a takedown notification, and...
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ARL Fall Forum to Explore Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences—Register by September 17
A few seats remain open for the ARL Fall Forum 2015, “Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences,” to be held at the Dupont Circle Hotel...
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SPEC Kit 348: Rapid Fabrication/Makerspace Services (September 2015)
This SPEC Kit explores current ARL member library engagement with 3-D printing, rapid fabrication and digitization technologies, and makerspaces. This study covers the types of services libraries offer, the location...
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More Than 2,500 Organizations Call on US Congress to Avoid Fiscal Disaster, End Sequestration
Just weeks before federal funding runs out and draconian budget cuts stopped by a 2013 Congressional budget deal are scheduled to go back into effect, more than 2,500 national, state...
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ARL Joins Amicus Brief in Surveillance Case, Wikimedia v. NSA
On September 3, 2015, ARL joined an amicus brief with other library associations and bookseller associations in Wikimedia v. NSA, a case that challenges warrantless surveillance. The amicus brief, authored by...
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ARL Fall Forum to Explore Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences—Register by September 11
Register by this Friday, September 11, for the ARL Fall Forum 2015, “Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences,” to be held in Washington, DC, on...
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Libraries That Learn: LibQUAL+® Confidential Pilot Project Webcast to Be Offered by ARL
ARL is offering a series of webcasts on how to improve library services using LibQUAL+ survey data and other evidence. Join Sarah Murphy, coordinator of assessment for The Ohio State...
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ARL/SAA Mosaic Program Hosts Second Annual Leadership Forum at SAA Meeting
The 2014–2016 ARL/Society of American Archivists (SAA) Mosaic Program fellows participated in the second annual Mosaic Leadership Forum on August 18, 2015, during the SAA Annual Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio....
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Center for Open Science’s Reproducibility Project Finds Many Studies Not Replicable
A four-year study published in Science Magazine yesterday, August 27, 2015, found that fewer than half of 100 published findings of three prominent psychology journals were reproducible. The 270 researchers...
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