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ARL Urges Publishers to Maximize Access to Digital Content during COVID-19 Pandemic
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) joins global library associations in urging publishers to maximize access to digital content during the emergency conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an...
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Libraries Are Leading Advocates Shaping and Influencing Greater Access to Information during COVID-19 Crisis
As higher education and most of daily life has withdrawn from physical spaces and shifted to a fully online environment to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, librarians and library collectives...
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ARL Responds to US Office of Science and Technology Policy Request for Comments on Desirable Characteristics of Repositories
Update: On May 26, 2022, the White House released new guidance to ensure federally funded research data equitably benefits all of America. ARL's comments (below) were part of the consultation...
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ARL Responds to US Office of Science and Technology Policy Request for Information on American Research Environment
On November 26, 2019, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a “Request for Information on the American Research Environment.” The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) welcomes...
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ARL Comments on Draft NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing
On November 6, 2019, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a request for public comments on a DRAFT NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing and supplemental DRAFT...
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HuMetricsHSS Develops Values-based Scholarly Measures
What would it look like if measures for assessing scholarship embodied humane values like equity, openness, collegiality, quality, and community? Across disciplines, incentives and reward structures in academia are widely...
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Virginia Tech Libraries Advance Digital Scholarship: 22nd Profile in ARL Series
The latest installment in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) series highlighting digital scholarship work at ARL member libraries features Virginia Tech. The Virginia Tech profile, written by ARL director...
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Library Digital Scholarship Support Profile: Virginia Tech
University Libraries https://lib.vt.edu/ Organizational model: Distributed Staff: While all 155 library employees support digital scholarship to some degree, key teams supporting digital scholarship include the following: Collections and Technical Services...
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IARLA Welcomes Plan S Move toward Open Access Environment
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Executive Committee approves the following statement released today by the International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA), of which ARL is a founding member....
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Statement: ARL Supports University of California Libraries’ Commitment to Barrier-Free Access to Information
As approved by the ARL Board of Directors on September 27, 2019 The Libraries of the University of California (UC) are seeking transformative agreements with publishers such that access to...