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Energy Department Releases Plan for Public Access to DOE-Funded Research
In late July 2014, the US Department of Energy (DOE) released its “Public Access Plan,” which responds to the February 2013 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)...
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SHARE Launches Monthly E-Newsletter—Sign Up and Share
SHARE Update (June 2014)We are pleased to publish the inaugural issue of the SHARE Update. As you may know, SHARE (SHared Access Research Ecosystem) is a higher education and research...
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AAU-ARL Prospectus for an Institutionally Funded First-Book Subvention
The Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) are working together, through a Task Force on Scholarly Communication, to ensure a robust system of scholarly...
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Controversial FIRST Bill Moves Forward
On May 28, 2014, the US House of Representatives Science, Space, and Technology Committee passed the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act of 2014, H.R. 4186. The...
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Membership Meeting 2014 (Spring): The 21st-Century Research Infrastructure and SHARE: Challenges and Opportunities
Presented at the 164th ARL Membership Meeting, May 2014, in Columbus, Ohio, by Kelvin K. Droegemeier mm14sp-droegemeier.pdf
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Membership Meeting 2014 (Spring): The SHARE Initiative—Value and Importance to Universities
Presented at the 164th ARL Membership Meeting, May 2014, in Columbus, Ohio, by R. Michael Tanner
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Membership Meeting 2014 (Spring): Digital Scholarship, Global Responsibility, and the Scholarship and Learning Cycle Landscape
Presented at the 164th ARL Membership Meeting, May 2014, in Columbus, Ohio, by David Gift mm14sp-gift.pdf
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Rikk Mulligan Appointed ARL Program Officer for Scholarly Publishing, ACLS Public Fellow
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has named Rikk Mulligan program officer for scholarly publishing, effective July 14, 2014. His two-year fellowship position has been funded by the American Council...
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SHARE Selects Center for Open Science as Development Partner for Notification Service
SHARE (SHared Access Research Ecosystem) and the Center for Open Science (COS), a Charlottesville, Virginia–based nonprofit technology start-up, have agreed to form a partnership to build the SHARE Notification Service,...
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Boston Library Consortium Calls Out Publishers on Price Gouging
On May 27, 2014, the Chronicle of Higher Education published a letter to the editor entitled, “Ebook Pricing Hikes Amount to Price-Gouging.” As a result of announced price increases that...