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Metadata Life Cycle: Mountain or Superhighway?
Introduction Federally mandated policies requiring public access to funded research data have impacted how institutions and researchers support the entire research data life cycle. Without a central infrastructure to support...
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Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative: Research Update #1
Central to the aims of the Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) project is an examination of the research-data landscape since the release of the Holdren public-access memo in 2013....
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ARL Supports cOAlitionS Call for Publisher Transparency and Reduced Author Burden for Immediate Open Access
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) endorses the cOAlition S call to publishers asking for greater clarity and transparency in manuscript submission processes, enabling authors to exercise the right to...
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Endorsement of Letter by cOAlition S to Publishers
On March 1, ARL endorsed an open letter by cOAlition S to publishers, requesting that they make their policies and contracts more transparent, particularly as it relates to author rights...
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Podcast: ARL Venture Fund Highlights
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 This episode explores...
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Webinar Invitation: Funding Vital Open-Science Infrastructure and the SCOSS Third Pledging Round
As a participating member of the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is pleased to invite you to a webinar "Everything You Always...
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Research Library Issues 302: Sustaining Open Content and Infrastructure
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Research Library Issues no. 302 (2021): Sustaining Open Content and Infrastructure. Introduction Judy Ruttenberg, Association of Research Libraries Open Persistent Identifiers: The Building...
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Open Access
ARL Positions on Open Access Principles and Practices A new openness in scholarly and research environments is transforming how knowledge is created, shared, and sustained. Open practices accelerate the dissemination...
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If It’s Open, Is It Accessible?
The library and open access (OA) publishing communities have made great strides in making more new scholarship openly available. But have we included readers with vision challenges in our OA...
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ARL Libraries Celebrate Open Access Week 2021
International Open Access Week, organized by SPARC, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the benefits of open access, share what they’ve learned with colleagues,...