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32 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 302 — 2021 23. Chuck Adams et al., eds., Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2: W3C Working Draft, World Wide Web Consortium, May 21, 2021, https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/. 24. Adams et al., WCAG 2.2. 25. Jeanne Spellman et al., eds., W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0: W3C Working Draft, World Wide Web Consortium, June 8, 2021, https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag-3.0/. 26. Matt Garrish, Ivan Herman, and Dave Cramer, eds., EPUB 3.3: W3C Working Draft, World Wide Web Consortium, November 25, 2021, https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/. 27. Lucy Lu Wang et al., “Improving the Accessibility of Scientific Documents: Current State, User Needs, and a System Solution to Enhance Scientific PDF Accessibility for Blind and Low Vision Users,” preprint, submitted April 30, 2021, https://arxiv.org/ abs/2105.00076. 28. US Congress, “H.R. 1100—Online Accessibility Bill,” introduced in House February 18, 2021, https://www.congress.gov/ bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1100. © Jonathan Lazar This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. To cite this article: Lazar, Jonathan. “Planning for Digital Accessibility in Research Libraries.” Research Library Issues, no. 302 (2021): 19–32. https://doi.org/10.29242/rli.302.3.

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32 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 302 — 2021 23. Chuck Adams et al., eds., Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2: W3C Working Draft, World Wide Web Consortium, May 21, 2021, https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/. 24. Adams et al., WCAG 2.2. 25. Jeanne Spellman et al., eds., W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0: W3C Working Draft, World Wide Web Consortium, June 8, 2021, https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag-3.0/. 26. Matt Garrish, Ivan Herman, and Dave Cramer, eds., EPUB 3.3: W3C Working Draft, World Wide Web Consortium, November 25, 2021, https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/. 27. Lucy Lu Wang et al., “Improving the Accessibility of Scientific Documents: Current State, User Needs, and a System Solution to Enhance Scientific PDF Accessibility for Blind and Low Vision Users,” preprint, submitted April 30, 2021, https://arxiv.org/ abs/2105.00076. 28. US Congress, “H.R. 1100—Online Accessibility Bill,” introduced in House February 18, 2021, https://www.congress.gov/ bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1100. © Jonathan Lazar This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. To cite this article: Lazar, Jonathan. “Planning for Digital Accessibility in Research Libraries.” Research Library Issues, no. 302 (2021): 19–32. https://doi.org/10.29242/rli.302.3.

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33 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 302 — 2021 Sustainability Funding for Scholarly Infrastructure Needs Infrastructure of Its Own Judy Ruttenberg, Association of Research Libraries For decades, research libraries have understood that the current system of scholarly communications—both content and infrastructure— would become unsustainable. Consolidation among large commercial publishing services has driven up prices faster than inflation or library allocations, and open source or community-based alternatives are often fragile by comparison: under-resourced, reliant on volunteer labor, and lacking in stable business models. Digital content and digital infrastructure are intertwined in the world of platforms and databases but infrastructure is what makes scholarship possible to do, to disseminate, to engage, and to preserve. A growing number of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries have recently launched “sustainable scholarship” initiatives and/or made commitments to values-based investing—supporting scholarly publishers and services that are aligned with library values of openness and equitable access. Goals of such efforts are to ensure ongoing access to and preservation of content, durable, affordable infrastructure, and to contain costs. Under a values-based investing framework, research libraries intend to divert a portion of their collections funds from the excesses of commercial publishing to sustain open or community-based scholarly infrastructures. They are doing so in alignment with the scholarly community and with local research priorities. Research libraries describe sustainable scholarship initiatives as more “open, affordable, and transparent”1 than the current system, which is dominated by an ever smaller number of large commercial publishing services including platforms, workflow tools, analytics, and computational environments. In libraries, supporting open and community-based infrastructures involves a complicated mix of both

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31 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 302 — 2021 10. Jonathan Lazar, “Managing Digital Accessibility at Universities during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Universal Access in the Information Society (2021): 1–17, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-021-00792-5. 11. Lazar, “Managing Digital Accessibility.” 12. Lazar, “Managing Digital Accessibility.” 13. Lazar, “Managing Digital Accessibility.” 14. Lazar, “Managing Digital Accessibility.” 15. Andrew Kirkpatrick et al. eds., Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1: W3C Recommendation, World Wide Web Consortium, June 5, 2018, https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/. 16. Matt Garrish and Dave Cramer, eds., EPUB 3.2: Final Community Group Specification, World Wide Web Consortium, May 8, 2019, https://www.w3.org/publishing/epub3/epub-spec.html. 17. Aravind Jembu Rajkumar et al., “PDF Accessibility of Research Papers: What Tools Are Needed for Assessment and Remediation?,” in Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (Manoa, HI: University of Hawaii, 2020), 4185–94, http://hdl.handle.net/10125/64254. 18. “Participate in the Great PDF Purge,” NC State University Office of Information Technology, August 15, 2019, https://oit.ncsu. edu/2019/08/15/participate-in-the-great-pdf-purge/. 19. Lazar, “Managing Digital Accessibility.” 20. Lazar, “Managing Digital Accessibility.” 21. Lazar, “Managing Digital Accessibility.” 22. Nick Anderson et al., “Colleges Want Students to Get a Coronavirus Vaccine. But They’re Split on Requiring the Shots,” Washington Post, June 23, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/ education/2021/06/23/colleges-covid-vaccine-mandates-divide/.

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