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Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2021 Day 2 Roundup
This week is Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. The week is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities...
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Fair Use Best Practices for Open Educational Resources Endorsed by ARL
Iconic news images from the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s can be powerful tools to help students ground events like the murder of George Floyd in their...
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Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2021 Day 1 Roundup
This week is Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. The week is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities...
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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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Text and Data Mining Exemption to Digital Millennium Copyright Act Would Advance Knowledge of Diverse Works
This week, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), as a member of the Library Copyright Alliance, joined the Authors Alliance and the American Association of University Professors in submitting a...
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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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How SCOSS Is Strengthening Global Open Access and Open Science Infrastructure
It has been nearly two years since the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) announced that it was shutting down. DPN was an early example of an open, community-governed, core-infrastructure endeavor—addressing the...
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IMLS Director Crosby Kemper Discusses Role of Libraries and Museums during COVID-19 Pandemic
ARL executive director Mary Lee Kennedy talked with Crosby Kemper III, the director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), about the role of libraries and museums, and...