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• Article-Level Metrics Primer Released by SPARC

  This spring SPARC published a community resource, Article-Level Metrics: A SPARC Primer (PDF), by Greg Tananbaum. Article-level metrics (ALMs) are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual articles...

• Library Associations Thank House Committee for Supporting Free Access to Government Documents

  On May 30, ARL joined the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), American Library Association (ALA), Medical Library Association (MLA), and Special Libraries Association (SLA) in a letter (PDF) to the Committee on...

• ARL to Host Events at ALA Annual Conference 2013

  ARL, LibQUAL+®, and SPARC are offering several events at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference to be held in Chicago this summer. Highlights include:  ARL/LibQUAL+ BoothFriday, June 28, 5:30...

• Research Library Issues, no. 280 (Sept. 2012)

  RLI issue 280 includes: Open Educational Resources as Learning Materials: Prospects and Strategies for University Libraries Marilyn S. Billings, Sarah C. Hutton, Jay Schafer, Charles M. Schweik, and Matt Sheridan E-Book...

• ARL Releases RLI 280 on OERs, E-Book Licensing, Research Library Trends

  ARL has published Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 280, which features articles on open educational resources (OERs) as an alternative to traditional textbooks, ARL's e-book licensing effort, and research library trends...

• ARL, AAU, APLU Present Statements on Public Access to Data, Publications

  This week, the National Research Council (NRC) is hosting four days of discussion on the recent White House memo, “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research” (PDF)....

• AAU, APLU, ARL Statement on Expanded Public Access to Data

  The Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and the Association of Research Libraries presented a joint statement on expanded public access to data to the...

• AAU, APLU, ARL Statement on Expanded Public Access to Publications

  The Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and the Association of Research Libraries presented a joint statement on expanded public access to publications to the...

• White House Takes Historic Steps to Open Up Government Data

  Today President Obama signed an Executive Order directing federal agencies to make government data more accessible to the public. Under the terms of the Executive Order, "Making Open and Machine Readable...

• ARL Sponsors Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP)

  ARL today joined major sponsors Public Library of Science (PLOS), Wellcome Trust, and Google to launch the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP), which recognizes the use of scientific research, published...

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