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• Article-Level Metrics Primer Released by SPARC

  This spring SPARC published a community resource, Article-Level Metrics: A SPARC Primer (PDF), by Greg Tananbaum. Article-level metrics (ALMs) are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual articles...

• The NSA is abusing the PATRIOT Act. We are not surprised.

  Yesterday British newspaper The Guardian reported that the National Security Agency had obtained a secret court order allowing the agency to collect an extraordinary amount of information about telephone calls...

• Library Associations Letter re NAPA Proposal to Charge End-User Fees for FDsys (May 30, 2013)

  On May 30, 2013, five major library associations—ARL, American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), American Library Association (ALA), Medical Library Association (MLA), Special Libraries Association (SLA)—sent this letter to the Committee on House...

• LCA Submits Statement to House Committee Regarding Unlocking Consumer Choice Wireless Competition Act

  On June 6, 2013, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) submitted testimony to the US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary for a hearing on the Unlocking Consumer Choice and...

• Library Associations Thank House Committee for Supporting Free Access to Government Documents

  On May 30, ARL joined the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), American Library Association (ALA), Medical Library Association (MLA), and Special Libraries Association (SLA) in a letter (PDF) to the Committee on...

• ARL Releases RLI 282 on Library Budgets, Journal Bundles, Reference Staffing

  ARL has published Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 282, which features articles on ARL library budgets over the past two years, subscriptions to journal collections from large publishers, and the...

• ARL Preservation Statistics 2007–2008

   preservation-statistics-2007-08.pdf

• Twelve (count ’em!) briefs filed in support of HathiTrust – who filed?

  The Library Copyright Alliance brief is one of twelve amicus briefs filed this week in support of the HathiTrust and its partner libraries. Other filers are: the American Association of...

• LCA Files Amicus in HathiTrust Case, Joins Flood of Support from Higher Ed, Disability Groups, Nonprofits

  On June 3, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) filed an amicus brief (PDF) in support of HathiTrust and its partners as they defend their district court victory on appeal in...

• Research Library Issues, no. 282 (2013)

  Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 282 includes: ARL Library Budgets after the Great Recession, 2011–13Charles B. Lowry The State of Large-Publisher Bundles in 2012Karla L. Strieb and Julia C. Blixrud...

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