ARL Disappointed with Court Ruling on Network Neutrality
“On January 14, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Open Internet Order’s anti-discrimination and anti-blocking rules,...
View ArticleHigher Education, Library Groups Release Net Neutrality Principles
“Today, higher education and library organizations representing thousands of colleges, universities, and libraries nationwide released a joint set of Net Neutrality Principles (PDF) they recommend form...
View ArticleAt research library conference, speakers push for advocacy
“University libraries need to advocate for government openness and electronic record keeping, speakers during the Association of Research Libraries fall membership conference implored on Wednesday, or...
View ArticleARL Joins New Re:Create Coalition to Promote Balanced Copyright
“Today, April 28, 2015, ARL joined US technology companies, trade associations, and civil society organizations in the launch of Re:Create, a coalition that promotes balanced copyright policy. A...
View ArticleCopyright Office Report on Orphan Works: ARL Releases Issue Brief
“ARL has published an issue brief on the US Copyright Office’s June 4, 2015, Report on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization (PDF), which includes recommendations for legislation on orphan...
View ArticleARL Urges Elsevier to Revise Policy That Impedes Sharing of Scholarship
“In April 2015, Elsevier announced a new sharing and hosting policy for Elsevier journal articles, which imposes excessive restrictions on authors and institutions, employs embargo periods that are...
View Article‘I’ve Got a Hunch’
“Artist spaces for technologists. A Wikipedia editing takeover. Holograms. Those and other predictions about the future of research libraries came during “I’ve Got a Hunch,” a session held during this...
View ArticleAAU, ARL, AAUP to Launch Open Access Monograph Publishing Initiative—Project...
“The Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of American University Presses (AAUP) are implementing a new initiative to advance the wide...
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