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• Open Access Empowers 16-Year-Old to Make Cancer Breakthrough

  SPARC’s student initiative, the Right to Research Coalition, has released a video interview of Jack Andraka, a high school sophomore who won the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair...

• SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) Proposal

  The Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and ARL have drafted a proposal in response to the OSTP memo: The SHared Access Research...

• Article-Level Metrics Primer Released by SPARC

  This spring SPARC published a community resource, Article-Level Metrics: A SPARC Primer (PDF), by Greg Tananbaum. Article-level metrics (ALMs) are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual articles...

• ARL Releases RLI 282 on Library Budgets, Journal Bundles, Reference Staffing

  ARL has published Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 282, which features articles on ARL library budgets over the past two years, subscriptions to journal collections from large publishers, and the...

• Research Library Issues, no. 282 (2013)

  Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 282 includes: ARL Library Budgets after the Great Recession, 2011–13Charles B. Lowry The State of Large-Publisher Bundles in 2012Karla L. Strieb and Julia C. Blixrud...

• Research Library Issues, no. 280 (Sept. 2012)

  RLI issue 280 includes: Open Educational Resources as Learning Materials: Prospects and Strategies for University Libraries Marilyn S. Billings, Sarah C. Hutton, Jay Schafer, Charles M. Schweik, and Matt Sheridan E-Book...

• ARL Releases RLI 280 on OERs, E-Book Licensing, Research Library Trends

  ARL has published Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 280, which features articles on open educational resources (OERs) as an alternative to traditional textbooks, ARL's e-book licensing effort, and research library trends...

• ARL Sponsors Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP)

  ARL today joined major sponsors Public Library of Science (PLOS), Wellcome Trust, and Google to launch the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP), which recognizes the use of scientific research, published...

• Introduction to Opportunity Assessment Instrument

  This introduction explains the Institute on Scholarly Communication Opportunity Assessment Instrument. All participants accepted for the institute’s three-day program development event are encouraged to work with a selected department to complete...

• Increasing the Effectiveness of Your Scholarly Communications Program Workshop Presentation Slides

  Presentation slides used in the ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communications workshop, Increasing the Effectiveness of Your Scholarly Communications Program, held in Indianapolis, IN, on April 9-10, 2013.    isc-workshop-apr2013-slides1.pdf

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