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Three Takeaways from US Copyright Office Publishers’ Protections Study Roundtable
The US Copyright Office is conducting a study of current copyright protections for publishers, and how potential ancillary copyright protections for publishers might interact with current copyright law, particularly as...
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Demand Progress Letter Requesting Congress to Direct the Congressional Research Services (CRS) to Publish All Non-Confidential CRS Reports Online
On December 13, 2021, ARL signed onto a letter by Demand Progress asking Members of the Joint Committee on the Library to publish CRS reports online, in accordance with the...
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Statement by SPARC’s Open Access Working Group Applauding the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science
The OAWG statement encourages the US—which is not a member of UNESCO—to adopt the Open Science Recommendations, particularly the recommendation to "develop an enabling policy environment for open science." Open...
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International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA) Statement Welcoming the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science
IARLA's statement highlights how research libraries are poised to lead and partner with others in the global open science movement to advance many of the UNESCO recommendations on open science....
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Open Access
Reports Investments in Open: Association of Research Libraries US Member Expenditures in Services, Collections, Staff, and Infrastructure in Support of Open Scholarship Report (November 2022) In this report, experts from...
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Library Impact Research Report: Understanding and Communicating Research Impact: The Needs of STEM and Health Sciences Faculty and Postdoctoral Researchers
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, the University of Washington (UW) Libraries explored UW faculty and postdoctoral researcher needs for understanding and communicating the impact of their work,...
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TOME: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem
TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) advances the wide dissemination of scholarship by humanities and humanistic social sciences faculty members through open access editions of peer-reviewed and professionally edited monographs. Scholars face...
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P+L: Presses and Library Publishing
P+L is a community of university presses and research libraries with whom they have a reporting relationship. Meeting since 2016, this group of press directors and university librarians focus on...
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Podcast: Victoria Owen on Libraries and the Marrakesh Treaty
About the ARL Views Podcast The ARL Views podcast provides deep dives into key issues of interest to the research library community. About This Episode In this episode, Victoria...
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Why the US Needs a Truth Commission and an Archive of Racial and Cultural Healing
In a nationwide survey conducted in the fall of 2020, the American Historical Association (AHA) asked Americans where they turned for historical information, the value they placed on historical inquiry,...
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