LIBER recently published Five Principles for libraries to use when conducting Open Access negotiations with publishers. These principles are meant to be understood as a minimum requirement when libraries or consortia have to negotiate new licensing deals, and the aim of the Principles is to create more opportunities to publish Open Access material. The Principles were…
“The future changes and challenges for university libraries” was the main topic of discussion for the leaders of four Nordic capital university libraries at a two-day workshop taking place in April. For thousands of years, libraries have been used as a way to gather and preserve knowledge in printed books. With the new age of…
OAI9 took place in the University of Geneva on 17-19 June 2015. The CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication takes place every 2 years and is a magnet for all those in Europe (and from further afield) who are interested in new modes of communication for scholarly outputs. Scholarly Communication issues are global issues.…
Nils-Lennart Johannesson is Professor of English Linguistics at Stockholm University and has worked with language and research since the 1970s. Nils-Lennart is an advocate of Open Access and encourages other researchers to make their research more accessible. He is also the chair of the editorial board of Stockholm English Studies at Stockholm University Press (SUP).…
Inge Werner has worked as Publishing Consultant for Utrecht University Library for the last five years and currently is a policy officer in the Library. In this guest post, she highlights why the library developed a new strategy for Open Access journal publishing. She discusses the expertise needed to successfully implement the service and run…
At LIBER 2015, our upcoming Annual Conference, Dr Martin Paul Eve will feature as a keynote speaker. He is a Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, the author of Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future and a founder and co-director of the Open Library of Humanities. LIBER recently spoke to…
In December 2014, Stockholm University Library decided to implement the free and open source library system Koha as the circulation module in a larger system architecture for printed material. The goal is to have Koha up and running by late 2015. This guest post from Andreas Hedström Mace, a librarian and project manager working at…
Don MacMillan is Liaison Librarian for Biological Sciences, Math, Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics at the University of Calgary’s Taylor Family Digital Library. In this guest post, he highlights how he helped students to develop better information literacy with regards to several bioinformatics sources and offers tips for librarians wishing to do the same in their…
On 19 February former LIBER President Paul Ayris attended, at the request of current LIBER President Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, a high-level meeting with European Commissioner Oettinger in Brussels on copyright reform — arguing the case of a mandatory pan-European Exception for Text and Data Mining, which could not be overridden by contracts. The text of Dr Ayris’s…
LIBER has been invited to attend a series of high-level round-table discussions on EU copyright. In my capacity as the President of LIBER I attended a meeting focusing on Text and Data Mining (TDM) and chaired by Commissioner Oettinger in Brussels in early February 2015. LIBER´s main message at the meeting was: “We are advocating…
Eva Dahlbäck (@KreativaEva) is Librarian and Acting Head of Customer Services at Stockholm University Library. In this guest post, she explains how Stockholm University Library recently developed the Viola system to collect books more efficiently from the closed stacks. Eva also presented about Viola at LIBER 2014, and her talk was the most highly rated…
