| The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries a $100,672 grant to fund a pilot program designed to strengthen librarians’ competencies in digital scholarship. The pilot 21st Century Skills: Digital Humanities Institute for Mid-Career Librarians will launch during the summer of 2015 at the University of Rochester. The application deadline is May 15, 2015...
Read more about the Digital Humanities Institute and apply »
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| NSF, DoD, HHS Release Plans for Public Access to ResearchSince late February, several US government agencies have released their plans for providing public access to federally funded research in response to the 2013 Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memorandum. Agencies releasing plans recently include the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Defense (DoD), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS released plans for five of its agencies based on a common policy approach...
Read more about the NSF plan, the DoD plan, and the HHS plans »
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| On Wednesday, March 18, members of the US House of Representatives and the US Senate introduced the bipartisan Fair Access to Science & Technology Research (FASTR) Act of 2015. FASTR, if passed, would codify the provisions to enhance public access to federally funded journal literature that were included in the February 2013 Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memorandum on public access to research. Provisions in the legislation would require that federal agencies with research budgets of $100 million or more make peer-reviewed final manuscripts publicly available six months following publication...
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Electronic Superhighway by Nam June Paik,
image © The Q |
| On March 12, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released the text of its new Open Internet Order, adopted in late February. The order ensures that Internet providers cannot create “fast lanes” and “slow lanes.” The text of the report and order released last week explicitly recognizes the role of libraries and institutions of higher education in shaping the new rules, including several citations and references to comments ARL filed with other library and higher education associations in July and September of 2014...
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| Following the Eleventh Circuit’s reversal and remand of the Georgia State University (GSU) e-reserves case in which the court largely rejected many arguments advanced by the publisher plaintiffs, the publishers have now filed a motion to reopen the record. Essentially the publishers are asking for evidence of GSU’s current conduct in an effort to seek a new trial with a new set of allegations. GSU has opposed this motion, asserting that reopening the record would be highly burdensome, and noting that in filing this motion the publishers are trying to use the past seven years of litigation as a “dry run” for a “second go” at the case...
Read more about this development in the GSU e-reserves case »
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Fair Use Week infographic and logo at National Library of Medicine,
by Deirdre Clarkin |
| On February 23–27, more than 60 organizations and institutions participated in Fair Use Week 2015, an annual celebration of the important (and flexible) doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. Fair Use Week 2015 was organized by ARL and participants included universities, libraries, library associations, and a number of organizations, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Creative Commons, New Media Rights, Public Knowledge, and the R Street Institute. Over the course of the week, more than 90 blog posts, 13 videos, 2 podcasts, a comic book, an infographic, and several other resources were released...
Read more about Fair Use Week 2015 and view/download resources »
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| Slideshows and the accompanying audio from ARL Statistics & Assessment presentations delivered at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Chicago on January 30 are now freely available on the ARL YouTube channel. The ARL Survey Coordinators and SPEC Liaisons Meeting focused on facilities data and the ARL Library Assessment Forum covered ARL activities, the Library Assessment Conference 2014 and 2016, and the IPEDS Academic Libraries Component...
View ARL Statistics & Assessment presentations from Midwinter »
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| The American Council on Education (ACE) has reelected ARL executive director Elliott Shore to serve as a higher education association representative to the ACE Board of Directors for a one-year term ending in March 2016. This will be Shore’s second consecutive year in this role, which strengthens ARL’s leadership in strategic conversations about higher education. Founded in 1918, ACE is the major coordinating body for all the nation’s higher education institutions, representing more than 1,600 college and university presidents, and more than 200 related associations, nationwide...
Read more about Elliott Shore’s reelection to the ACE Board »
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