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ARL Responds to US Office of Science and Technology Policy Request for Information on American Research Environment
On November 26, 2019, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a “Request for Information on the American Research Environment.” The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) welcomes...
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Research Libraries as Catalytic Leaders in a Society in Constant Flux: A Report on the ARL-CNI Fall Forum 2019
This report on the 2019 ARL-CNI Fall Forum summarizes the presentations of the keynote speaker and panelists, highlights specific breakout discussions, and outlines a set of shared recommendations for research...
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ARL Comments on Draft NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing
On November 6, 2019, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a request for public comments on a DRAFT NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing and supplemental DRAFT...
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Letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on the Nomination of Crosby Kemper III
On December 11, 2019, the Association of Research Libraries sent a letter to Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray, chairman and ranking member of the US Senate Committee on Health,...
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IARLA Signs Open Letter Calling for Expedition to COUNTER Release 5
Members of the International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA), alongside a number of international academic library organizations, have signed an open letter calling for the expedition to Release 5...
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Integrating Digital Humanities into the Web of Scholarship with SHARE
This white paper reports the findings of a two-year project investigating the value SHARE could have for digital humanities scholars. SHARE is an open-source community that develops tools and services...
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Association of Research Libraries Condemns Racist and Anti-Semitic Acts at Syracuse University
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) denounces and abhors the recent acts of racist and anti-Semitic violence and hate speech that have taken place on the campus of Syracuse University....
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On the Edge, November 6, 2019
Jeff Witt, organizational development lead at the University of Michigan Library, leads a discussion on the principles of safe and brave space and the ways in which these concepts are...
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Sylvester Johnson on Humanism in Our Technological Age
As a follow-up to Research Library Issues no. 299 on the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), Association of Research Libraries (ARL) executive director Mary Lee Kennedy talked with author Sylvester...
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ARL Supports MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts
As approved by the ARL Board of Directors on November 6, 2019 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) supports the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts as an important pathway to...