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Higher Ed Associations Form Joint Steering Group to Build Federated System for Publicly Funded Research
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) today announced the formation of a joint steering group...
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Library and Repository Communities Join Together to Identify New Competencies for Academic Librarians
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) are pleased...
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Open Access Week 2013
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its sixth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of open...
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Open Access Empowers 16-Year-Old to Make Cancer Breakthrough
SPARC’s student initiative, the Right to Research Coalition, has released a video interview of Jack Andraka, a high school sophomore who won the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair...
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SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) Proposal
The Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and ARL have drafted a proposal in response to the OSTP memo: The SHared Access Research...
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Article-Level Metrics Primer Released by SPARC
This spring SPARC published a community resource, Article-Level Metrics: A SPARC Primer (PDF), by Greg Tananbaum. Article-level metrics (ALMs) are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual articles...
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ARL Releases RLI 282 on Library Budgets, Journal Bundles, Reference Staffing
ARL has published Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 282, which features articles on ARL library budgets over the past two years, subscriptions to journal collections from large publishers, and the...
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Research Library Issues, no. 282 (2013)
Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 282 includes: ARL Library Budgets after the Great Recession, 2011–13Charles B. Lowry The State of Large-Publisher Bundles in 2012Karla L. Strieb and Julia C. Blixrud...
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Research Library Issues, no. 280 (Sept. 2012)
RLI issue 280 includes: Open Educational Resources as Learning Materials: Prospects and Strategies for University Libraries Marilyn S. Billings, Sarah C. Hutton, Jay Schafer, Charles M. Schweik, and Matt Sheridan E-Book...
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ARL Releases RLI 280 on OERs, E-Book Licensing, Research Library Trends
ARL has published Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 280, which features articles on open educational resources (OERs) as an alternative to traditional textbooks, ARL's e-book licensing effort, and research library trends...
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