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ARL Urges Elsevier to Revise Policy That Impedes Sharing of Scholarship
In April 2015, Elsevier announced a new sharing and hosting policy for Elsevier journal articles, which imposes excessive restrictions on authors and institutions, employs embargo periods that are counter to...
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ARL Fall Forum to Explore Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences—Register by September 17
A few seats remain open for the ARL Fall Forum 2015, “Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences,” to be held at the Dupont Circle Hotel...
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Center for Open Science’s Reproducibility Project Finds Many Studies Not Replicable
A four-year study published in Science Magazine yesterday, August 27, 2015, found that fewer than half of 100 published findings of three prominent psychology journals were reproducible. The 270 researchers...
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SHARE Featured on Scholarly Kitchen Blog
On the Scholarly Kitchen blog today, August 27, 2015, Alice Meadows of ORCID writes about “Reasons to Be Cheerful: Some Thoughts on the SHARE Summer 2015 Meeting.” In her blog...
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ARL Fall Forum to Explore Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences—Register Now
Registration is open for the ARL Fall Forum 2015, “Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences,” to be held in Washington, DC, on Thursday, October 8....
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Coalition Calls on White House to Open Up Access to Federally Funded Educational Resources
Today, August 4, 2015, ARL along with a broad coalition of more than 90 education, library, technology, public interest, and legal organizations, called on the White House to take administrative...
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Letter to White House OSTP to Include Open Education Resources (OERs) in Open Government National Action Plan
On August 4, 2015, ARL along with a coalition of more than 90 education, library, technology, public interest, and legal organizations, called on the White House to take administrative action...
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FASTR Bill to Enhance Public Access to Research Approved by US Senate Committee
Today, July 29, 2015, the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved S. 779, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act, or FASTR. The bill...
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Shifting the Scientific Culture toward Transparency: ARL Signs onto Guidelines to Improve Research and Publishing Practices
Transparency and reproducibility are cornerstones of how science creates knowledge. Evidence for scientific claims should be shared openly so others can evaluate, question, replicate, or extend scientific studies. When evidence...
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Scholarly Output Assessment Activities Webcast
ARL is offering a series of webcasts that present the findings from the latest SPEC surveys and allow webcast participants to discuss trends with the survey authors. A 45-minute webcast...
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