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Information Today
September 22, 2008
Robin Peek |
Fair Copyright in Research Works Act Challenges Federal Funding Some publishers are fighting the national Institutes of Health legislation that requires federally funded research to be made available through PubMed Central.   |
Information Today
May 19, 2011 |
Library Copyright Alliance Releases Statement on Copyright Reform Libraries have always advocated for reasonable copyright policy -- in the courts as well as in the U.S. Congress. |
Geotimes
November 2004 |
Open Access: Open Debate? Imagine any U.S. citizen having free and open access to research funded with tax dollars. That possibility could be closer to reality than ever before, but Congress must first address some important concerns |
Information Today
September 13, 2004
Barbara Quint |
NIH Requires Open Access for Its Funded Medical Research With the NIH's decision, the fast-paced open access movement has picked up even more momentum. |
Information Today
January 17, 2012
Robin Peek |
Research Works Act Could Challenge Public Access to Federally Funded Research This act is designed to thwart activities such as the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, which requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central. |
Information Today
February 3, 2015 |
ALA Educates Libraries About the E-rate Program The American Library Association launched the Got E-rate? initiative, which encourages library leaders to apply for internet discounts as part of the E-rate program. |
Information Today
April 30, 2015 |
ARL Announces Copyright Policy Coalition The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), American Library Association, Center for Democracy & Technology, and seven other organizations launched the Re:create coalition for promoting balanced copyright policy. |
Information Today
May 6, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Bill Introduced for Open Access to Federally Funded Research--FRPAA Revisited The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) will extend the existing open access mandate for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) across all of the major funding agencies in the U.S. federal government. |
Information Today
February 25, 2013
Abby Clobridge |
U.S. Takes Huge Step Forward in Opening Access to Publicly Funded Research During a flurry of announcements over the past 2 weeks, the world has watched as two major developments were launched from the U.S. federal government that will open access to articles produced as a result of grant funding from key U.S. agencies. |
Information Today
June 14, 2010 |
Support for Public Access to Oil Leak Monitoring Data Almost 40 organizations led by OpenTheGovernment.org and including a number of library associations, joined in sending a letter to President Obama urging him to give the public access to all monitoring data. |
Information Today
April 11, 2011 |
Library Copyright Alliance Releases Analysis of the Google Books Settlement Rejection The LCA comprises the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of College and Research Libraries. |
Searcher
March 2007
Mary Alice Baish |
Librarians as Change Agents: How You Can Help Influence Public Policy in the 110th Congress Key library issues for the 110th Congress. |
Information Today
April 15, 2014
Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2014: Lives Change @ Your Library The United States has celebrated National Library Week during the second week of April (aka School Library Month) since 1958. This year, it's being celebrated April 13-19, with author Judy Blume serving as honorary chair. |
Chemistry World
March 2, 2012
Rebecca Trager |
Anti-open access bill suffers sudden death Legislation in the US Congress that would have stopped funding agencies stipulating that research they fund with taxpayer dollars be made publicly available has collapsed. The dramatic development could signal a pivotal shift in scientific publishing. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2005 |
Library of Congress Launches Website The Library of Congress has launched a Web site to cover the work of a special independent committee that is recommending changes to section 108 of the Copyright Act. |
D-Lib
December 2004
Bonita Wilson |
The Growth of Digital Content The future of libraries and librarians has been discussed for years within the digital library community. Increasing amounts of digital content available anywhere and anytime makes that discussion more relevant than ever. |
Information Today
December 16, 2014 |
E-Rate Program Increases Broadband Budget The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved an E-rate program modernization order that will expand public libraries' broadband access. |
Information Today
April 17, 2008 |
ALA Releases `The State of America's Libraries' Report Libraries of all kinds continue to be "engines of learning, literacy, and economic development in communities nationwide." |
Information Today
February 12, 2007
Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Libraries: Where Do They Stand Now? Much has transpired in the year since our last NewsBreak concerning the closure of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency libraries. |
Information Today
March 15, 2010 |
Organizations Request Hearings on Destruction of DOJ Emails The letter signed by library associations, requests that hearings be held on the apparent unlawful destruction of emails in the Department of Justice, despite the requirements of the Federal Records Act. |
Information Today
July 23, 2007 |
House Approves Bill That Mandates NIH Public Access Policy The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a measure directing the NIH to provide free public online access to agency-funded research findings within 12 months of their publication in a peer-reviewed journal. |
D-Lib
September 2004
Bonita Wilson |
Recommended Reading For the D-Lib audience: US Congressional Budget Office report, Copyright Issues in Digital Media... UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report, Scientific Publications: Free for All?... National Institutes of Health (NIH) publication Notice: Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information... |
D-Lib
June 2008 |
A New Website Devoted to Envisioning the Future of Libraries In an information world in which Google apparently offers us everything, what place is there for the traditional, and even the digital, library? |
Information Today
September 2, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Elsevier and ACS Agree to Link... ebrary Launches Library Center... ALA and Others Request Public Input on Homeland Security Procedures... |
Information Today
October 31, 2013 |
LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries. |
Information Today
April 4, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Library Ebook Lending Under Attack The options libraries have are poor and our customers are frustrated. There are numerous restrictions on lending, device incompatibilities, proprietary systems, interface issues, privacy issues, and more. |
Information Today
October 5, 2009 |
New Report on Filings in the Google Books Settlement The Association of Research Libraries, the American Library Association, and the Association of College and Research Libraries have issued a report that summarizes information about the filings that have been submitted to the federal district court presiding over the Google Books litigation. |
D-Lib
August 2005
Clifford Lynch |
Where Do We Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries The next decade for digital libraries may be characterized by the transition from technologies and prototypes to the ubiquitous, immersive, and pervasive deployment of digital library technologies and services in the broader information and information technology landscape. |
Information Today
February 2006
K. Matthew Dames |
Intellectual Property: Library Schools and the Copyright Knowledge Gap From digitization projects to interlibrary loan and from electronic reserves to electronic books, copyright law is having an impact on librarianship. |
Information Today
April 14, 2011 |
ALA Releases 'The State of America's Libraries, 2011' The Great Recession may have come to an end, but hard-pressed Americans continue to turn to their local libraries for help in finding a job or launching their own business. This is one trend listed in the report. |
Searcher
December 2004
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Only Libraries, Only Librarians If Congress were to wave its magic wand and mandate open access across the federal research effort, it could accelerate the open access movement overnight. But are we ready? |
Information Today
July 12, 2010 |
CHLA and CIHR to Develop First Canadian Virtual Health Library The Canadian Health Libraries Association and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research are moving forward with the development of the Canadian Virtual Health Library -- a first for Canada. |
Searcher
January 2004
Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
Information Today
October 2, 2008 |
EPA Reopens Regional and Headquarters Libraries The re-opening of regional libraries in Chicago, Dallas and Kansas City and the library at Headquarters will help the Agency better share information. |
Information Today
March 22, 2012 |
Two Dozen Bipartisan Co-Sponsors Add Their Support to FRPAA Fresh on the heels of the well-attended Congressional briefing on the issue of public access to the results of taxpayer funded research on March 19, 2012, 24 new bipartisan co-sponsors have officially been added to the roster of supporters. |
Information Today
May 3, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Celebrating Libraries and Promoting Choose Privacy Week (May 2-8) Choose Privacy Week, which takes place May 2-8, 2010, is about bringing information privacy issues out into the open and discussing them - and libraries are the perfect places for those conversations to take place. |
Information Today
July 23, 2015 |
Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K. |
D-Lib
February 2009
Bonita Wilson |
Challenges and Opportunities Historically, libraries have been instrumental in helping individuals and businesses through difficult economic times |
Searcher
February 2003
Mariam A. Drake |
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science: Why Not? NCLIS is one of the smallest agencies in the U.S. government, with a million-dollar budget, hardly a drop in the ocean of the trillion dollar plus federal budget. While the Commission's work has been significant, it suffers from lack of visibility inside and outside the government. |
Information Today
August 13, 2012 |
ALA Releases Report on Ebook Business Models for Public Libraries The report, which was created by the ALA Digital Content and Libraries Working Group, suggests opportunities for publishers to showcase content through public libraries. |
Information Today
December 21, 2009 |
Library Associations Raise Google Book Search Pricing Concerns to DOJ The library associations urge the Department of Justice to request the court to review the pricing of the institutional subscriptions to ensure that the economic objectives set forth in the settlement agreement are met. |
Information Today
March 17, 2015
Richard Huffine |
Distinctions Emerge in U.S. Government Plans for Expanding Access to Research Research funded by the U.S. government is finally going to be available for anyone to read and cite, based on plans laid out by the agencies that administer the funding |
Information Today
October 2004
Barbara Quint |
Up Front with Barbara Quint: Future of the NIH Open Access Policy Basically, the NIH, funder of at least a quarter of the world's best medical research, will mandate that all grantees and contractors submit electronic copies of finished manuscripts for full-text release through PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine's popular medical research site. |
Information Today
July 9, 2012
Paula J. Hane |
The Challenging Landscape of Ebooks in Libraries The overall growth in digital content of all kinds, and in particular, the growing importance and acceptance of ebooks, has clearly presented great opportunities for libraries, as well as plenty of challenges. |
Information Today
July 21, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Voters and Public Library Funding: An OCLC Market Research Report Public libraries are in trouble. Costs and demands for their services continue to rise, while revenue and support for maintaining, much less increasing, financial support continue to sink. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Assessing the Impact of Library Discovery Technology on Content Usage... A New Way to Follow the Research Trail... GreyGuide - Guide to Good Practice in Grey Literature... |
Geotimes
August 2004
Sherwood Boehlert |
Making an Impact on the Hill At a time of increased spending on defense and homeland security, the prospects for a significant increase in the National Science Foundation budget are dim. |
Information Today
July 7, 2003
Miriam. A. Drake |
Free Public Access to Science -- Will It Happen? If Congressman Martin Sabo of Minnesota has his way, the results of federally funded research in science and medicine will be available freely to all. |
Information Today
January 25, 2010 |
Open Book Alliance Urges a Public Guardian for Digital Book Database--Not Google The Open Book Alliance has asked Congress to help establish a digital book database that provides greater access to books, respects the rights of authors and publishers, and doesn't grant undue power to any single company. |
Information Today
December 22, 2008 |
Pilot Grant Program to Improve Internet Connections in Public Libraries The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a pilot initiative designed to help public libraries in seven states secure faster internet connections so more people can access a full range of online applications and opportunities. |
