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Advocacy Letters & Statements
ARL advances our priorities by working in coalition with representatives from civil society, higher education, libraries, scholars, open science, research, technology, and trade. On this page you will find letters,...
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Open Access
Reports Investments in Open: Association of Research Libraries US Member Expenditures in Services, Collections, Staff, and Infrastructure in Support of Open Scholarship Report (November 2022) In this report, experts from...
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TOME: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem
TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) advances the wide dissemination of scholarship by humanities and humanistic social sciences faculty members through open access editions of peer-reviewed and professionally edited monographs. Scholars face...
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P+L: Presses and Library Publishing
P+L is a community of university presses and research libraries with whom they have a reporting relationship. Meeting since 2016, this group of press directors and university librarians focus on...
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Research Data
The proliferation, management, and preservation of research data is one of the most pressing challenges facing research libraries. ARL works with members, funders, and partners to advance FAIR (findable, accessible,...
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Digital Scholarship
ARL member libraries and their institutions’ faculty and students create research in all forms, including digital and data-intensive scholarship, digital humanities, and digital publishing. We offer professional development opportunities for member libraries’...
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Archives and Special Collections
Archives, special collections, and libraries share professional responsibility for the unique items in our collections—including records of the institution, the full research materials of its faculty, and rare books and...
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Section 230 and Libraries
ARL and our partners are working to help lawmakers, our community, and the general public understand how the law protects libraries and universities and not just “big tech,” which is...
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ARL/CARL Joint Task Force on Research Data Services
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL)/Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Joint Task Force on Research Data Services was formed in early 2020 with a two-fold purpose: (1) to demonstrate...
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Library Assessment Conference 2020 Proceedings Now Online
The Proceedings of the 2020–2021 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment are now available on the conference website. The eighth biennial Library Assessment Conference, held virtually between October...
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