Independent expert group calls for reform to the European legal framework in order to support the international competitiveness of European research
In their report on Text and Data Mining (TDM) for Research, commissioned by the European Commission, the independent expert group on TDM call for Europe to reform its legal framework in regards to copyright and database rights in order to ensure the international competitiveness of Europe’s research base. LIBER agrees with the conclusions of the report which…
Representatives of thirteen partners, from eight different countries, gathered in historic Guimarães, Portugal last week, for the first meeting of the FOSTER project, 20 – 21 February. Project coordinator Eloy Rodrigues, from the University of Minho, began the meeting with a call for the partners to “work together to spread the seeds of Open Science”. Over…
“Content Mining: Why you and I should NOT sign up for Elsevier’s TDM service” is the title of Peter Murray-Rust’s latest blog piece. In it he puts Elsevier’s newly launched text and data mining service and accompanying policy under the microscope. LIBER has republished an excerpt here. In the last few days Elsevier has announced…
Today, the 22nd of January, the League of European Research Universities launched its Roadmap for Research Data in Brussels. The launch was attend by 50 representatives from LERU institutions, organisations working in open data, and the European Commission. Developed with the aim of helping to plot a path for all European universities who wish to…
The Sabanci University Information Centre, a LIBER member, has just launched digitalSSM – an online archive that incorporates all the collections and archives of the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum. This is a pioneering project in Turkey. The contents of the Arts of the Book and Calligraphy Collection, the Painting Collection, the Abidin Dino Archives…
Finally, it’s out! If you have been paying attention to European Commission activities, you will have noticed that the Horizon 2020 (H2020) work programme has been released. Designed to boost Europe’s knowledge driven economy, H2020 will provide a whopping €15 billion worth of funding for research and innovation activities in Europe and beyond over the…
On November 12, LIBER travelled to Brussels for a special event: Copyright and research and innovation policy. The case of Text and Data Mining. The session was organized by Copryright for Creativity and hosted by MEPs Amelia Andersdotter (Swedish, Greens/EFA), Marietje Schaake (Dutch, ALDE ) and Paweł Zalewski (Polish, EPP) in the European Parliament (download the…
Open-access publishing has grown dramatically in the last five years. There have been many positive initiatives to help researchers communicate and access information in a sustainable way. However, as with many paradigm shifts, there are growing pains associated, including predatory journal practices and lack of clarity around terms and options. Elsevier’s Library Connect program recently hosted a…
The final conference of the MedOANet project took place in Athens on 17-18 October 2013. As President of LIBER, I was invited to be a member of a roundtable panel on the second day of the conference, and to give the summing up at the end of the event. MedOANet is an EU-funded project and…
Over the past few months, the Europeana Newspapers Project has been working to build an online browser that will display digital versions of historic newspapers. This tool aims to provide a simple yet effective way to search the 18 million digital newspaper pages that Europeana Newspapers will make available through Europeana and The European Library.…
September 27th, 2013 saw The Perfect Swell at the British Library in London – a LIBER Workshop on the future potential and challenges of Text and Data Mining (TDM). The Workshop boasted a full house with attendance from a wide number of European stakeholders. They included the EUA (European Universities Association), LERU (League of European…
