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Library Impact Research Report: Open Access Publishing: A Study of UC Berkeley Faculty Views and Practices
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, a team at the University of California (UC) Berkeley Library studied the relationship between faculty’s attitudes toward open access (OA) and their...
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Library Associations Share Community Response to White House Memorandum on Public Access to Research
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have submitted a letter to the chairs of the US National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)...
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ARL Addresses Copyright Implications of OSTP Public-Access Guidance in FAQs
In conversations around the recently updated public-access guidance from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), we've heard members of our community—including librarians, researchers, and administrators—raise questions...
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ARL Statement on Texas Library Coalition for United Action Agreement with Elsevier
Today more than 40 public and private academic institutions in Texas—members of the Texas Library Coalition for United Action (TLCUA)—announced the conclusion of a successful negotiation with Elsevier. TLCUA member...
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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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ARL Supports cOAlitionS Call for Publisher Transparency and Reduced Author Burden for Immediate Open Access
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) endorses the cOAlition S call to publishers asking for greater clarity and transparency in manuscript submission processes, enabling authors to exercise the right to...
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ARL Statement on New Transformative Publishing Agreement between the University of California and Elsevier
It is an exciting time in scholarly publishing. After walking away from negotiations with Elsevier in 2019, the University of California (UC) system has reached a full publish-and-read agreement with...
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60 Open-Access University-Press Monographs Published through TOME Initiative
Sixty scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences have been made freely available to researchers, students, and the general public under the TOME initiative. The Association of American Universities,...
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P2L4 to Convene University Presses, Libraries Virtually July 22—Open to Full ARL, AUPresses Membership
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Association of University Presses (AUPresses) annually convene the P2L community—presses and libraries who share a reporting relationship. This year, we are opening up...
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More Research Libraries Decline “Big Deal” Subscription Contracts with Publishers
The impact of COVID-19 increases the urgency for innovative approaches for barrier-free access to information. When the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and the entire State University...