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Fair Use Jurisprudence Project—Updated for 2022

Last year, in celebration of Fair Use Week, the UCI Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology (IPAT) Clinic took a deep dive into fair use. We looked at every written judicial opinion...
Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week Day 2 Roundup

This year, libraries, universities, and civil society groups celebrate Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week February 21–25. Fair use (in the US) and fair dealing (in Canada and other jurisdictions) is a...
Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week Day 1 Roundup

This year, libraries, universities, and civil society groups celebrate Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week February 21–25. Fair use (in the US) and fair dealing (in Canada and other jurisdictions) is a...
Accelerating the Social Impact of Research (ASIR)

The social impact of research, whether it is examining educational and economic disparities, developing new medications, or understanding environmental challenges, is a key component of higher education and research institutions...
Open Access

Reports Investments in Open: Association of Research Libraries US Member Expenditures in Services, Collections, Staff, and Infrastructure in Support of Open Scholarship Report (November 2022) In this report, experts from...
Digital Scholarship

ARL member libraries and their institutions’ faculty and students create research in all forms, including digital and data-intensive scholarship, digital humanities, and digital publishing. We offer professional development opportunities for member libraries’...
Defining Social Impact

I’m doing quite a bit of reading about social or societal impact connected to open science. The easiest starting point, and one that is not uncommon, is the UN’s Sustainable...
Anticompetitive Practices Reduce Diversity of Knowledge

In June, a bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduced a package of antitrust reform bills targeted at curbing anticompetitive practices in online markets. The bills followed a series of House...
Dispatch from the United Nations 2nd Open Science Conference

In July I attended the virtual Open Science Conference hosted by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library; the program and other details are on the UN Library’s website. Reflecting on...
UCLA Library/OCLC Non-roman Script Project Bridges Access Gaps to Research Materials

With resources available in 414 languages and 12 million print and electronic volumes, UCLA Library attracts more than 15 million information seekers from around the world annually via its website....