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Letter to Deborah Platt Majoras re: In the Matter of Consumer Fair Use and Related Rights (Aug. 1, 2007)
Letter from library associations in support of the the request for investigation and complaint for injunctive relief filed by the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) in the matter of...
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In the Matter of Petition for Expedited Rulemaking to Establish Technical Requirements and Standards Pursuant to Section 107(b) of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act: Joint Comments
Joint Comments Submitted on Behalf of American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, Center for Democracy & Technology, Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Media Access Project, The Rutherford...
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Research Libraries’ Enduring Responsibility for Preservation
Collectively ARL libraries hold more than 470 million print volumes. These works are complemented by many digital works and special collections. Preservation has long been an area of significant activity...
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Letter to House re: Support for timely online access to articles reporting the results of government-funded research (July 16, 2007)
Letter from library associations concerning the FY08 Labor/HHS/Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill. ltr_to_house_re_nih_16july07.pdf
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Letter to Senate re: Support for timely online access to articles reporting the results of government-funded research (July 16, 2007)
Letter from library associations concerning the FY08 Labor/HHS/Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill. ltr_to_senate_re_nih_16july07.pdf
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SPEC Kit 298: Metadata (July 2007)
SPEC Kit 298 investigates how metadata is implemented in ARL member libraries: which staff are creating metadata and for what kinds of digital objects, what schemas and tools they use...
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Mandatory Public Access to Federally Funded Research Does Not Violate Copyright Obligations
Statement from ARL, SPARC, and ALA refuting the argument of several publishers of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journals who argued that proposed legislative changes to the NIH Public Access...
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A New Day for Website Archiving: Field v. Google and Parker vs. Google
band-web-archive-2006.pdf
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Author Rights Resources
Bibliography of author rights resources compiled by ARL and SPARC. author-rights-resources-jun07.pdf
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ARL White Paper on Interlibrary Loan
Statistics, trends, and description of current interlibrary loan (ILL) practices in ARL libraries. arl_white_paper_ill_june07.pdf