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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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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