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SPEC Kit 284: Security in Special Collections (October 2004)
A scanned version of SPEC Kit 284 is available full view through HathiTrust. View the document here » A print copy is available for $45.00 ($35.00 ARL members) plus shipping and...
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Library Associations Endorse New Agenda for WIPO
The American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Special Libraries Association endorsed the Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World...
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ARL Update on the NIH Public Policy Proposal
On September 3, 2004, NIH released a proposed plan to make research articles available to the public free of charge on PubMed Central (PMC) within six months after publication in...
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SPEC Kit 283: Grant Coordination (September 2004)
A scanned version of SPEC Kit 283 is available full view through HathiTrust.View the document here » A print copy is available for $45.00 ($35.00 ARL members) plus shipping and...
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Letter to Elias A. Zerhouni re: NIH Public Access Policy (Aug. 31, 2004)
Letter from library associations to director of National Institutes of Health (NIH), expressing strong support of the NIH proposal to provide freely available online access to NIH-funded manuscripts via PubMedCentral....
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Letter to Senators Hatch, Leahy, Daschle, and Frist re: S. 2560, the Induce Act (Aug. 24, 2004)
Letter from interested organizations, in response to the invitation to witnesses at the hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, suggesting an alternative to S. 2560, the Induce Act. lt-senate-induceact-24aug04.pdf
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Open Access Publication of Scientific Research – FY 2005 Appropriations
Dear Representatives Regula and Obey, Senators Specter and Harkin and Dr. Zerhouni: Our organizations are volunteer and nonprofit HIV/AIDS treatment, vaccine, and prevention advocacy groups with a long history of...
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SPEC Kit 282: Managing Electronic Resources (August 2004)
A scanned version of SPEC Kit 282 is available full view through HathiTrust. View the document here » A print copy is available for $45.00 ($35.00 ARL members) plus shipping and...
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ARL Endorses Digitization as an Acceptable Preservation Reformatting Option
ARL has endorsed digitization as an accepted preservation reformatting option for a range of materials. This endorsement comes from the work of the ARL Preservation Committee, and this statement was...
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Letter to Orrin Hatch re: S. 2560, Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004 (Jul. 6, 2004)
Letter from interested organizations requesting that United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary hold hearings on S. 2560, the "Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004" before taking action. lt-hatch-leahy-induceact-06jul04.pdf