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ARL and CARL Celebrate Human Rights Day with Resources on Marrakesh Treaty and Accessible Books Consortium
Globally, less than 10% of all published material is accessible to people with visual disabilities according to the World Blind Union. The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works...
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ARL/CDL Machine Actionable Plans (MAP) Pilot Team Visits University of Colorado Boulder
The MAP Pilot project team from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the California Digital Library (CDL) continued its 2024 site visits to pilot institutions with an October visit...
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ARL Shines a Light on Native American Heritage During the Month of November
ARL joins our member institutions in honoring Native American Heritage Month by compiling a roundup of blog posts, events, and other resources that celebrate the culture and heritage of Native...
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ARL Libraries Celebrate Open Access Week 2024
Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of open access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues,...
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Machine Actionable Plans (MAP) Pilot Team Visits Penn State University
With a research budget of more than $1 billion, the management of research data at Penn State University involves a diverse set of researchers, systems, campus units, and an increasingly...
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ARL and California Digital Library Kick Off Machine Actionable Plans (MAP) Pilot Site Visits at Northwestern University
In September, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the California Digital Library (CDL) conducted a site visit to the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Galter Health Sciences Library....
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Opportunities to Protect Copyright User Rights from Contractual Override
The US Copyright Act includes special rights for libraries and the scholarly functions they support. However, when licensing digital content, publishers and vendors sometimes include terms to restrict certain uses...
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ARL Libraries Celebrate Banned Books Week 2024
Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and draws attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting current and historical attempts to remove or restrict books in libraries and...
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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month 2024
The Association of Research Libraries is excited to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15–October 15). Below is a roundup of the events, blogs, resources, and exhibits from our member libraries....
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ARL’s 2024 Labor/Labour Day Roundup
The first Monday in September is commonly celebrated as Labor/Labour Day. The fight to improve conditions at the worksite didn't happen by sheer benevolence from industrialists, it happened as a...
