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Defense Department Releases Plan for Public Access to DoD-Funded Research
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has released a “Plan to Establish Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research” (PDF). The plan provides details and next steps regarding...
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FASTR Bill to Enhance Public Access to Research Introduced in US Congress
On March 18, 2015, members of the US House of Representatives and the US Senate introduced the bipartisan Fair Access to Science & Technology Research (FASTR) Act of 2015 (S.779,...
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National Science Foundation Releases Plan for Public Access to NSF-Funded Research
Today, March 18, 2015, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) released, “NSF’s Public Access Plan: Today’s Data, Tomorrow’s Discoveries—Increasing Access to the Results of Research Funded by the National Science...
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U Rochester Libraries Wins Mellon Grant to Establish Digital Humanities Institute
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries a $100,672 grant to fund a pilot program designed to strengthen librarians’ competencies in digital scholarship....
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FCC Open Internet Order Incorporates Proposals by Library and Higher Education Groups
On February 26, 2015, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted its new Open Internet Order, ensuring that Internet providers cannot create “fast lanes” and “slow lanes,” by reclassifying broadband...
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HHS Releases Plans for Public Access to Federally Funded Research
On February 27, 2015, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released implementation plans for five HHS agencies based on a common policy approach in response to the...
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Former ARL Leadership Fellows Explore Centers of Excellence for Information Services
In 2013, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a team of librarians who met as 2011–2012 ARL Research Library Leadership Fellows a planning grant to examine the potential use of the...
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COAR-SPARC Conference 2015 to Convene in Portugal in April
Registration is open for the COAR-SPARC Conference 2015, “Connecting Research Results, Bridging Communities, Opening Scholarship,” to be held in Porto, Portugal, April 15–16. Co-hosted by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic...
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Memorial: Joseph Adonias Boisse, 1937–2015
Joseph Adonias Boisse, university librarian at University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, from 1983 to 1998 and director of libraries at Temple University from 1979 to 1983, died at the...
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CNI Project Briefing Proposals for Spring 2015 Meeting Due February 27
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is accepting proposals for project briefings to be presented at the CNI Spring 2015 Membership Meeting in Seattle, Washington, April 13–14. Proposal submission is...
