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Online Copyright Education Offered by Columbia University Libraries and LYRASIS
In early February, Columbia University Libraries and LYRASIS launched the Virtual Copyright Education Center (VCEC) pilot project. With a stellar faculty drawn from experts in research libraries and museums, “the...
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Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2021 Day 2 Roundup
This week is Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. The week is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities...
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Fair Use Best Practices for Open Educational Resources Endorsed by ARL
Iconic news images from the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s can be powerful tools to help students ground events like the murder of George Floyd in their...
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Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2021 Day 1 Roundup
This week is Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. The week is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities...
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Opportunities for Research Libraries and Scholarly Societies to Support Community-Building among Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences
A recent paper by scholarly communication researcher Marcel LaFlamme, published by the Association of Research Libraries, presents findings and recommendations from semi-structured interviews with early-career researchers from Canada and the United...
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Statement on Biden-Harris Administration’s Prioritization of Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policy-Making
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) commends the Biden-Harris administration’s intention to rely on scientific integrity and evidence-based policy-making to address its priorities of COVID-19, racial justice, the economy, and...
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ARL Member Libraries COVID-19 News: February 22–26
University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries Limited Onsite Service Resumes February 23 McMaster University Libraries Curbside Pickup Service Resumes February 22
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We’re All Fair Users Now
Today kicks off Fair Use Week, an annual celebration of the important doctrine of fair use/fair dealing. Previously, ARL has debunked common fair use myths, and reviewed the fundamentals of...
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Persistent Identifiers Connect a Scholarly Record with Many Versions
In the past few months, we’ve seen large commercial publishers express renewed concern that green open access (OA)—sharing author manuscripts in open repositories—threatens the scholarly record because multiple versions undermine...
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Registration Now Open for 2021 Library Assessment Conference March 17 Virtual Session on Teaching & Learning and Value
Register online for the final session of the virtual 2020–21 Library Assessment Conference, a half-day webinar on Teaching & Learning and Value to be held Wednesday, March 17. The 2020–21...
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