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• ARL E-Book Requirements

  This is "Appendix C: Detailed Evaluation Requirements and Desirables" of the 2012 ARL e-book licensing agent RFP, more commonly known as the "ARL E-Book Requirements."  arl-e-book-requirements-2012.pdf

• Research Library Issues, no. 269 (April 2010): Special Issue on Strategies for Opening Up Content

  RLI issue 269 includes: Strategies for Opening Up Content: Laying the Groundwork for an Open System of Scholarship Achieving Consensus on the University of Kansas Open-Access Policy Improving Access with Open-Access...

• Performance of or Showing Films in the Classroom

  This piece was written in hopes of clarifying one aspect of the confusion on digital delivery of content to the "physical" classroom.  films-in-classroom10sep09.pdf

• ARL Encourages Members to Refrain from Signing Nondisclosure or Confidentiality Clauses

  Members Also Encouraged to Share Agreement Content The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Board of Directors voted in support of a resolution introduced by its Scholarly Communication Steering Committee to...

• ARL Encourages Members to Refrain from Signing Nondisclosure or Confidentiality Clauses

  The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Board of Directors voted in support of a resolution introduced by its Scholarly Communication Steering Committee to strongly encourage ARL member libraries to refrain...

• Research Library Issues, no. 264 (June 2009)

  RLI issue 264 includes the following articles: ARL Encourages Members to Refrain from Signing Nondisclosure or Confidentiality Clauses The Case for Regulating Google and the Proposed Book Rights Registry Learning...

• The E-only Tipping Point for Journals: What’s Ahead in the Print-to-Electronic Transition Zone

  This report examines the issues associated with moves toward electronic-only publication of journals. It is based in large part on interviews with two-dozen academic librarians and journal publishers. Interviews were...

• SPEC Kit 248: Managing the Licensing of Electronic Products (August 1999)

  A scanned version of SPEC Kit 248 is available full view through HathiTrust.  View document here »

• Principles for Licensing Electronic Resources

  ARL and its partner library associations issued these principles in 1997 and then developed a series of workshops on licensing to introduce the library community to best practices in contract...

• Intellectual Property: An ARL Statement of Principles

  This statement of seven principles adopted by the ARL Membership in May 1994 affirms the rights and responsibilities of the research library community in the area of copyright.  intellectual-property-an-arl-statement-of-principles-1994.pdf

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