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SPARC Open Access Meeting 2014 to Focus on Convergence
The next SPARC Open Access Meeting, themed “Convergence,” will convene March 3–4, 2014, in Kansas City. The past year has seen growing momentum in the areas of open access, open data,...
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Library Associations Letter Supporting Nomination of Davita Vance-Cooks as US Public Printer (June 11, 2013)
On June 11, 2013, five major library associations—ARL, American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), American Library Association (ALA), Medical Library Association (MLA), Special Libraries Association (SLA)—sent this letter to the US Senate Committee...
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Library Associations Support Nomination of Davita Vance-Cooks for Public Printer
On June 11, 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 US Senate...
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Open Access Empowers 16-Year-Old to Make Cancer Breakthrough
SPARC’s student initiative, the Right to Research Coalition, has released a video interview of Jack Andraka, a high school sophomore who won the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair...
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SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) Proposal
The Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and ARL have drafted a proposal in response to the OSTP memo: The SHared Access Research...
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SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) Proposed by ARL, AAU, APLU
ARL, the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) have drafted a proposal, “SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE)” (PDF), in response to the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...