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Call for SCOSS Expressions of Interest 2024: Open Science Infrastructure and Services Are Invited to Apply for Funding
Having raised over €5.8 million to sustain vital, noncommercial infrastructure and services within the open science community, the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) is once again searching...
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American Library Association Calls April 24 a Day of Action in Support of Free Expression
The American Library Association (ALA) is calling on readers everywhere to take action today in support of free expression and against book censorship. ALA and its members have led the...
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Generative AI and Copyright: An Interview with Jonathan Band
For Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2023, Association of Research Libraries (ARL) senior director of Scholarship and Policy, Judy Ruttenberg, interviewed Jonathan Band, counsel to the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), which...
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ARL Congratulates the First Archive of Racial & Cultural Healing in the US
On March 30, nearly 300 librarians and archivists attended the virtual screening and panel discussion of Hidden in Full View, a short documentary film about the investigation of the 1931...
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Accelerating the Social Impact of Research (ASIR)
The social impact of research, whether it is examining educational and economic disparities, developing new medications, or understanding environmental challenges, is a key component of higher education and research institutions...
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Why the US Needs a Truth Commission and an Archive of Racial and Cultural Healing
In a nationwide survey conducted in the fall of 2020, the American Historical Association (AHA) asked Americans where they turned for historical information, the value they placed on historical inquiry,...
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SCOSS 2021 Update: Library Consortia Create Path for Funding Open Infrastructure
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) will soon announce its third round of funding targets for open scholarly infrastructure providers. Since 2017, the SCOSS Board has worked...
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ARL Seeks Visiting Program Officer to Accelerate Social Impact of Research
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) seeks a visiting program officer (VPO) with a passion for, or knowledge of, advancing open research and scholarship practices within their institution. The VPO...
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Online Copyright Education Offered by Columbia University Libraries and LYRASIS
In early February, Columbia University Libraries and LYRASIS launched the Virtual Copyright Education Center (VCEC) pilot project. With a stellar faculty drawn from experts in research libraries and museums, “the...
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ARL Seeks Visiting Program Officer to Advance Initiative on Digital Rights
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) seeks a visiting program officer (VPO) with broad knowledge of digital rights issues—including controlled digital lending, digital first sale, and licensing—to work with the...