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Advocacy and Public Policy Update—October 2015
An update on key advocacy and public policy issues from mid-August to October 1, 2015 by Prudence S. Adler and Krista Cox. advocacy-and-policy-update-october2015.pdf
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ARL Urges Elsevier to Revise Policy That Impedes Sharing of Scholarship
ARL president Deborah Jakubs sent a letter on September 10—on behalf of the ARL Board and ARL member libraries—to Elsevier chairman Youngsuk Chi urging him "to consider the negative impact...
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ARL Urges Elsevier to Revise Policy That Impedes Sharing of Scholarship
In April 2015, Elsevier announced a new sharing and hosting policy for Elsevier journal articles, which imposes excessive restrictions on authors and institutions, employs embargo periods that are counter to...
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SHARE Featured on Scholarly Kitchen Blog
On the Scholarly Kitchen blog today, August 27, 2015, Alice Meadows of ORCID writes about “Reasons to Be Cheerful: Some Thoughts on the SHARE Summer 2015 Meeting.” In her blog...
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Advocacy and Public Policy Update—August 2015
An update on key advocacy and public policy issues from mid-June to mid-August 2015 by Prudence S. Adler and Krista Cox. advocacy-and-policy-update-august2015.pdf
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More than 90 Organizations and Institutions Call for Administration Policy on Open Educational Resources
On August 4, 2015, ARL joined more than 90 organizations and institutions wrote to President Obama calling for a policy to ensure that federally funded educational materials "are made available...
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Coalition Calls on White House to Open Up Access to Federally Funded Educational Resources
Today, August 4, 2015, ARL along with a broad coalition of more than 90 education, library, technology, public interest, and legal organizations, called on the White House to take administrative...
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Letter to White House OSTP to Include Open Education Resources (OERs) in Open Government National Action Plan
On August 4, 2015, ARL along with a coalition of more than 90 education, library, technology, public interest, and legal organizations, called on the White House to take administrative action...
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FASTR Bill to Enhance Public Access to Research Approved by US Senate Committee
Today, July 29, 2015, the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved S. 779, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act, or FASTR. The bill...
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Major Repository Networks Agree to Collaborate on Data Exchange, Technological Development, and Metadata
On July 9 and 10, 2015, three major regional open access repository networks and aggregators (OpenAIRE, LA Referencia, and SHARE), along with the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and...
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