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ARL Board Affirms Transparency as Core Operating Principle of Licensing
At its summer meeting, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Board of Directors approved the following statement, reiterating a long-standing licensing best practice of declining to sign nondisclosure agreements (NDAs)...
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ARL Supports MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts
As approved by the ARL Board of Directors on November 6, 2019 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) supports the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts as an important pathway to...
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ARL Positions on Open Access Principles and Practices
A new openness in scholarly and research environments is transforming how knowledge is created, shared, and sustained. Open practices accelerate the dissemination of scholars’ work and improve its quality, impact,...
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Advocacy and Public Policy Update, January 2019, Released by ARL
The latest Advocacy and Public Policy Update (PDF), by Prudence S. Adler and Krista L. Cox of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), covers key issues of interest to the research...
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Letter to Committee on Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act
On April 5, 2018, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) signed a letter in support of the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act, HR 4631, to the Committee on House...
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Advocacy and Public Policy Update—April 2018
An update of key advocacy and public policy issues of interest to the research library community in Canada and in the US from February 22 through April 20, 2018, by...
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Higher Ed Groups Unveil National Designation for Institutions Excelling at Self-Assessment to Drive Student Success
The Association of Research Libraries encourages academic and research libraries to explore a new program recently announced by the Voluntary System of Accountability, a public college and university transparency initiative...
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Center for Open Science’s Reproducibility Project Finds Many Studies Not Replicable
A four-year study published in Science Magazine yesterday, August 27, 2015, found that fewer than half of 100 published findings of three prominent psychology journals were reproducible. The 270 researchers...
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Shifting the Scientific Culture toward Transparency: ARL Signs onto Guidelines to Improve Research and Publishing Practices
Transparency and reproducibility are cornerstones of how science creates knowledge. Evidence for scientific claims should be shared openly so others can evaluate, question, replicate, or extend scientific studies. When evidence...
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Coalitions Support Leahy’s USA FREEDOM Bill for Surveillance Reform
This week, ARL joined two groups of organizations that engage on privacy and surveillance issues in letters to US Congressional leadership expressing support for the compromise version of the USA...