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The Humanist: “Dances with Wolves” or “Bowls Alone”?
This paper discusses informal scholarly communication in the humanities; ways in which information technology can influence the content of scholarly communication without necessarily changing its outward forms; and an emerging...
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Scholarly Tribes and Tribulations: How Tradition and Technology Are Driving Disciplinary Change [annotated bibliography]
In 2003, ARL convened a group of scholars, librarians, information technologists, and administrators to explore how the disciplines and sub-disciplines are approaching the use of technology. scholarly-tribes-bibl-dec03.pdf
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Global Changes in Scholarly Communication
This paper addresses some of the strategic issues that relate to the traditional system of scholarly communication by looking at changes in informal and formal communication between scholars and scientists...
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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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Library Preservation: Changes Incorporated in H.R. 2281, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (PL 105-304)
Addresses changes to Section 108 of the Copyright Act due to passage of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. dmca-section108-changes.pdf
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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
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Letter to Richard G. Davis and Cynthia Etkin re: support for the draft Guidelines, Establishing Shared Regional Depository Libraries (Jun. 5, 2007)
Letter from ARL in support of the addition of $2 million in the FY 2008 Senate, State, Foreign Operations and Related Program appropriations bill. ltgpo-rreg-05jun07.pdf
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