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Public Access Data Management and Sharing Activities for Academic Administration and Researchers
The Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative’s public-access data management and sharing (DMS) activities are the result of categorizing services and support across the institution that are likely needed...
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Library Impact Research Report: Discovery of Published Information by Early-Career Science Faculty
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, a team from the University of Pittsburgh Library System conducted a study to understand the information-seeking behavior of early-career faculty in the...
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Investments in Open: Association of Research Libraries US University Member Expenditures on Services, Collections, Staff, and Infrastructure in Support of Open Scholarship
Open access (OA) and the broad sharing of research outputs has been empirically shown to accelerate scientific progress and benefit society and individuals at scale through improved health outcomes, socioeconomic...
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Library Impact Practice Brief: Supporting Library Spaces Research in the Iowa State University Library with Project Outcome
In the busy world of academic research library assessment work, can simple and easy-to-use outcome-based assessment tools contribute in meaningful and actionable ways to library decision-making? This was the question...
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Library Impact Research Report: Facilitating Innovative Research, Creative Thinking, and Problem Solving
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, the Marston Science Library (MSL) of the University of Florida (UF) George A. Smathers Libraries partnered with the UF Department of Interior...
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ARL Celebrates Biden-Harris Administration’s Historic Policy to Make Federally Funded Research Immediately Available
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) enthusiastically welcomes today’s announcement by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) that the administration has updated the 2013 “Expanding Public...
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Cultural Proficiencies for Racial Equity: A Framework
The Joint ALA/ARL Building Cultural Proficiencies for Racial Equity Framework Task Force’s final draft of the Cultural Proficiencies for Racial Equity: A Framework was approved by the boards of directors of the...
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Copyright and Contracts: Issues and Strategies
In 2020, ARL’s Advocacy and Public Policy Committee launched a digital rights initiative focused on understanding and safeguarding the full stack of research libraries’ rights: to acquire and lend digital...
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Controlled Digital Lending
This paper discusses ARL's position on controlled digital lending of library materials and lays out considerations that may support research libraries in crafting their use case and preparing for a...
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Library Impact Research Report: Educating and Empowering a Diverse Student Body: Supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Research through Library Collections
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, a research team from the Texas Tech University (TTU) Libraries explored methods for assessing collections related to the study and research of...