LIBER is pleased to welcome Simone Sacchi as our Interim EU Projects Manager. Simone brings 15 years of experience in academic libraries and research centers to the position. He has run information management and outreach programs in the areas of scholarly communication, open science and digital stewardship. “LIBER’s strategy and portfolio of EU projects demonstrates our…
LIBER is heading to Barcelona this week for the 9th Research Data Alliance Plenary Meeting — a special working event which helps the research data community move forward, improving data sharing across disciplines, technologies, and countries. Look for the following LIBER representatives at the Plenary: From LIBER’s Executive Board and Committees: Ms Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, LIBER President Prof…
LIBER worked hard in 2016 to serve our network of 400+ libraries, consortia and organisations across Europe. The highlights of our year are laid out in the infographic below, and include the following key figures: 139 Volunteers on our Executive Board, Steering Committees, Working Groups, Fora and Conference Programme Committee. 112 trips to conferences, workshops and…
As part of LIBER’s work on the OpenAIRE project, we recently commissioned Research Consulting to produce an economic analysis study of the Open Access publishing market. The resulting report is now available for download. Towards a competitive and sustainable open access publishing market in Europe (download PDF) “We took the EU Council’s goal of achieving immediate…
Anyone travelling to our LIBER 2017 Annual Conference in Patras, Greece has the possibility to benefit from special rates on flights and accomodation. Flights – Save up to 20% on travel with Star Alliance for yourself and one accompanying person (depending on fare and class of travel). Read more. Accomodation – Special rates are available at…
One of LIBER’s key objectives for 2017 is to work with the European Parliament towards European copyright reforms that support research and innovation. With this in mind, LIBER was pleased to be invited to speak to the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) on 22 March 2017. Maria Rehbinder, University of the Arts Helsinki and…
Last week, the project OpenAIRE published the report “Towards a Competitive and Sustainable OA Market in Europe – A Study of the Open Access Market and Policy Environment.” LIBER commissioned Research Consulting to undertake this study in October, as part of our work for the project. The report (pdf) is accompanied by an Annex (pdf) which contains the…
The FAIR Data Principles are a hot topic in research data management. Their adoption within the H2020 funding programme means researchers now have to pay much more attention to how their share, publish and archive their data. Recently LIBER held a Webinar on this topic, with Alastair Dunning of TU Delft as our guest speaker.…
LIBER has signed two new Memoranda of Understanding, with CLARIN ERIC and with DARIAH-EU. Both organisations serve humanities scholars. CLARIN stands for “Common Language Resources and Technology lnfrastructure”. CLARIN is a research infrastructure that was initiated from the vision that all digital language resources and tools, from Europe and beyond, are accessible through a single…
The following is an update from the Metrics Working Group chairs, Isabella Peters and Sarah Coombs. LIBER’s Metrics Working Group, launched in 2016, is now in full swing and has recently had its first article accepted for publication by Digital Library Perspectives. The article is a critical discussion of the Leiden Manifesto for libraries already engaged…
Early Bird Registration has been extended to 14 May. Register now for the best rates! *** Registration is now open for LIBER’s 2017 Annual Conference, 5-7 July 2017 in Patras, Greece. Special ‘early-bird’ booking fees (€280 for LIBER members) are available until April 30th. Organised by the Library & Information Center of the University of Patras,…
Astrid Verheusen, Head of the Innovative Projects Department at the National Library of the Netherlands, has been appointed as LIBER’s Interim Executive Director. “After years of working on innovation and development within a library it is a challenge to broaden my view and work with a community from all over Europe. I fully support the…
