LIBER’s Annual Conference is being streamed live from Riga, Latvia this week. Via the streaming link, you can watch all of our plenary sessions. The broadcasts will take place at the following times CET. July 2nd 12:00-14:00 July 3rd 10:00-11:00, 12:45-13:45, 15:30-16:30 July 4th 10:00-10:45 The times listed on the streaming link are the local…
Eighteen European research and library organisations, including LIBER, are today calling on Elsevier to withdraw its current policy on text and data mining (TDM) Our request has been laid out and explained in an open letter to Michiel Kolman, Senior VP Global Academic Relations at the academic publishing company. We believe that Elsevier’s current TDM policy places unnecessary…
Six Open Access (OA) publishers have joined LIBER and LERU in publicly stating their opposition to the European Publishers Council’s EPC Copyright Vision Paper 2014: Copyright Enabled on the Network. They are: Cameron Neylon, PLOS Brian Hole, Ubiquity Press Mark Patterson, eLife Peter Binfield, PeerJ Rupert Gatti, Open Book Publishers Xenia van Edig, Copernicus Publications The OA publishers…
