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Opportunities for Research Libraries and Scholarly Societies to Support Community-Building among Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences
A recent paper by scholarly communication researcher Marcel LaFlamme, published by the Association of Research Libraries, presents findings and recommendations from semi-structured interviews with early-career researchers from Canada and the United...
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Statement on Biden-Harris Administration’s Prioritization of Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policy-Making
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) commends the Biden-Harris administration’s intention to rely on scientific integrity and evidence-based policy-making to address its priorities of COVID-19, racial justice, the economy, and...
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Persistent Identifiers Connect a Scholarly Record with Many Versions
In the past few months, we’ve seen large commercial publishers express renewed concern that green open access (OA)—sharing author manuscripts in open repositories—threatens the scholarly record because multiple versions undermine...
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Library and Higher Education Groups Release Communication Toolkit for Implementing Effective Data Practices
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), California Digital Library (CDL), Association of American Universities (AAU), and Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) are pleased to release a communication toolkit...
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Interviews on Implementing Effective Data Practices, Part III: Getting down into the Details
This is the third and final blog post in a three-part series on understanding the perspective of various stakeholders across the scholarly communication landscape regarding the adoption of persistent identifiers...
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Interviews on Implementing Effective Data Practices, Part II: Conference Goals
This is the second blog post in a three-part series on understanding the perspective of various stakeholders across the scholarly communication landscape regarding the adoption of persistent identifiers (PIDs) and...
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Interviews on Implementing Effective Data Practices, Part I: Why This Work Matters
In preparation for the December 2019 invitational conference, “Implementing Effective Data Practices,” hosted by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Public and Land-grant...
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ARL Publishes “Affiliation in Transition: Rethinking Society Membership with Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences”
Even before COVID-19 and its associated pressures on higher education budgets, today’s early-career researchers faced more insecurity in the academic job market than the generations before them. These labor market...
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Affiliation in Transition: Rethinking Society Membership with Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences
This paper by Marcel LaFlamme explores new forms of connection and community for early-career researchers, which are often facilitated by social media and other communication technologies. By learning from these...
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New Report Provides Recommendations for Effective Data Practices Based on National Science Foundation Research Enterprise Convening
Today a group of research library and higher education leadership associations released Implementing Effective Data Practices: Stakeholder Recommendations for Collaborative Research Support. In this new report, experts from library, research,...