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Library Impact Research Report: Open Access Publishing: A Study of UC Berkeley Faculty Views and Practices
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, a team at the University of California (UC) Berkeley Library studied the relationship between faculty’s attitudes toward open access (OA) and their...
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Library Associations Share Community Response to White House Memorandum on Public Access to Research
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have submitted a letter to the chairs of the US National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)...
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ARL Addresses Copyright Implications of OSTP Public-Access Guidance in FAQs
In conversations around the recently updated public-access guidance from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), we've heard members of our community—including librarians, researchers, and administrators—raise questions...
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ARL Statement on Texas Library Coalition for United Action Agreement with Elsevier
Today more than 40 public and private academic institutions in Texas—members of the Texas Library Coalition for United Action (TLCUA)—announced the conclusion of a successful negotiation with Elsevier. TLCUA member...
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Accelerating Academy-Owned Publishing: An ARL Project
How can libraries accelerate research sharing and increase participation in scholarship? What funding and partnerships do scholarly communities, open repositories, and other public-goods platforms need to transform into true, academy-owned,...
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AAU, ARL, AAUP to Launch Open Access Monograph Publishing Initiative—Project Will Share Scholarship Freely, More Broadly
The Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of American University Presses (AAUP) are implementing a new initiative to advance the wide dissemination of scholarship...
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Webinar—Funding Article Processing Charges (SPEC Kit 353)
SPEC Kit 353, Funding Article Processing Charges, explores strategies ARL member institutions are using to address APCs, and describes and documents related policies and procedures. The Funding Article Processing Charges...
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University Press and Library Summit Releases White Paper, Recommendations
The P2L Summit brought together 23 teams of university library and press directors with an administrative relationship (typically the press reporting to the library—“P2L”) on May 9–10, 2016, in Philadelphia,...
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SPEC Survey Webcast on Funding Article Processing Charges—Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 1:00–1:45 PM EST
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a series of webcasts that present the findings from the latest SPEC surveys and allow webcast participants to discuss trends with the...
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Funding Article Processing Charges, SPEC Kit 353, Published by ARL
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released Funding Article Processing Charges (APCs), SPEC Kit 353, an exploration of the strategies that ARL member institutions are using to address APCs....