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How SCOSS Is Strengthening Global Open Access and Open Science Infrastructure
It has been nearly two years since the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) announced that it was shutting down. DPN was an early example of an open, community-governed, core-infrastructure endeavor—addressing the...
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New Report Provides Recommendations for Effective Data Practices Based on National Science Foundation Research Enterprise Convening
Today a group of research library and higher education leadership associations released Implementing Effective Data Practices: Stakeholder Recommendations for Collaborative Research Support. In this new report, experts from library, research,...
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Implementing Effective Data Practices: Stakeholder Recommendations for Collaborative Research Support
In this report, experts from library, research, and scientific communities provide key recommendations for effective data practices to support a more open research ecosystem. The recommendations are based on information...
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60 Open-Access University-Press Monographs Published through TOME Initiative
Sixty scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences have been made freely available to researchers, students, and the general public under the TOME initiative. The Association of American Universities,...
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ARL Welcomes cOAlition S Rights Retention Strategy Calling for Open Access to Results of Funded Research
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) commends cOAlition S on today’s announcement of its Rights Retention Strategy to advance the goal of immediate open access to the published results of...
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Association of Research Libraries Urges End to Litigation against Internet Archive
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) urges an end to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive filed early this month by four major publishers in the United States District Court...
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ARL, ACRL, Oberlin Group of Libraries Urge Library Vendors to Continue Free Access, Hold Subscription Prices Steady during COVID-19 Pandemic
The academic library community appreciates the ways that library vendors and service providers have made electronic resources freely and openly available to support the acute global response to COVID-19 and...
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More Research Libraries Decline “Big Deal” Subscription Contracts with Publishers
The impact of COVID-19 increases the urgency for innovative approaches for barrier-free access to information. When the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and the entire State University...
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ARL Responds to US Office of Science and Technology Policy Request for Information on Public Access to Federally Funded Research
On February 19, 2020, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued “Request for Information: Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data and Code Resulting from Federally Funded...
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IARLA Statement on Access to Digital Content for Education and Research during the Period of COVID-19 Response
The International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA), representing the research libraries of Australia, Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States, is today amplifying the calls that our...
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