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How SCOSS Is Strengthening Global Open Access and Open Science Infrastructure
It has been nearly two years since the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) announced that it was shutting down. DPN was an early example of an open, community-governed, core-infrastructure endeavor—addressing the...
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Program Analyst for Scholars & Scholarship Position Open at ARL
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) seeks an exceptional colleague to advance the Association’s advocacy, scholarship, and policy agenda. The program analyst will be a member of ARL’s Scholarship and...
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ARL Seeks Director of Information Policy
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) seeks an experienced policy analyst and advocate to lead on key priorities within the Association’s advocacy, scholarship, and policy agenda. This position will serve...
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Librarians Create Conditions for Researchers to Tackle Grand Challenges with Data Science
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the global scientific effort to develop treatments and vaccines, is the latest large-scale event to show the power and urgency of collaboration and data-sharing to solve...
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Libraries Are Leading Advocates Shaping and Influencing Greater Access to Information during COVID-19 Crisis
As higher education and most of daily life has withdrawn from physical spaces and shifted to a fully online environment to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, librarians and library collectives...
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Five Takeaways from NSF-Funded Conference on Implementing Effective Data Practices
In December 2019 the National Science Foundation sponsored an invitational conference on implementing effective data practices, convened by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the California Digital Library, the Association...
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Research Libraries Can Be Partners with Societies in Open Access Transitions
In mid-December, rumors of a US executive order requiring that the results of federally funded scientific research be made available for publication immediately, with zero embargo, blew up a corner...
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Report on Integrating Digital Humanities into the Web of Scholarship with SHARE
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) released today a white paper that reports the findings of a two-year project investigating the value SHARE could have for digital humanities scholars. SHARE...
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Library Digital Scholarship Support Profile: Virginia Tech
University Libraries https://lib.vt.edu/ Organizational model: Distributed Staff: While all 155 library employees support digital scholarship to some degree, key teams supporting digital scholarship include the following: Collections and Technical Services...
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ARL Celebrates Open Access Week 2019: Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its 12th year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the benefits of open access, to share...