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Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week Day 3 Roundup
This week is Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. It is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities presented by fair...
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Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2020 Day 2 Roundup
This week is Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. It is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities presented by fair...
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Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2020 Day 1 Roundup
This week is Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. It is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities presented by fair...
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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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Demonstrating Impact in the Social Sciences — and Thinking Like a Social Scientist
Guest blog post by Judy Ruttenberg, director, Scholars and Scholarship, ARL “I am more than my H-Index,” is a popular laptop sticker in the open science community, where the index—a...
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Opportunities for Libraries in the AI Ecosystem
Guest post by Cynthia Hudson-Vitale, head, Research Informatics and Publishing, Penn State University Libraries Artificial intelligence (AI) for data discovery and reuse was the topic of a recent conference sponsored...
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Marrakesh Treaty Enters Into Force in the United States
Today, May 8, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) administered Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled enters...
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Why Research Libraries Support an Open Internet
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Save the Internet Act, a bill designed to restore the net neutrality protections put into place in 2015 by the...
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Affordable College Textbook Act Reintroduced in Congress
Today, US Senators Durbin (D-IL), King (I-ME), Smith (D-MN) and Sinema (D-AZ) and US Representative Neguse (D-CO) re-introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act. The bill would create a grant program...
