The LIBER Executive Board held its first meeting of the year in Patras in Greece on the 25th and 26th of February. LIBER Strategy 2018-22 At the meeting, Board members took the first steps towards developing the LIBER Strategy for 2018-22. Over the course of the two-day meeting, the Board brainstormed and discussed the environmental…
LIBER’s Annual Conference is one of Europe’s biggest gatherings of library professionals, and we want to encourage librarians from across Europe to attend. That’s why we offer the Annual Conference Fund allows potential delegates from a number of countries to apply for free conference registration and a €500 grant towards travel costs. For 2016, participants…
Registration is now open for this year’s Annual Conference, to be held in Helsinki, Finland from 29 June to 1 July. As the main network for research libraries in Europe, our Annual Conference is one of the most important yearly gatherings for research library professionals to network and share information and ideas with one another. Early-bird registration…
Think. Check. Submit. – the cross-industry campaign that helps educate researchers about the criteria they should look for when selecting where to publish their work – has today made available a new video that highlights some of the key questions that researchers should ask when assessing a journal. The video accompanies downloadable posters and the…
LIBER Quarterly has, until now, published papers in two categories: regular (scientific) ‘articles’ and ‘reviews’. The Editorial Board has now also opened its pages for the category of ‘case studies’. In this way we expect to receive interesting contributions about local library initiatives. In order to safeguard the scientific quality of academic papers, the Board…
The last year was a busy one for LIBER. Apart from our increased activities in European Projects, we enjoyed an extremely successful Annual Conference in London (we’re already planning the 2016 conference in Helsinki) and welcomed a new member of the Executive Board, Ms Anja Smit, together with a number of new colleagues at the office in The…
Readers of LIBER’s academic journal LIBER Quarterly may already have discovered its new layout, which has been realised thanks to the collaboration between our host Uopen (formerly Igitur) at the University of Utrecht and Ubiquity Press. In addition to a modern look, the website boasts a number of new features: Article level metrics, where the…
New library systems are being launched, which will deeply affect how libraries carry out their core procedures and tasks. They include the upcoming cloud-based systems of the world‘s largest suppliers Ex Libris and OCLC, and Open Source systems under construction (e.g. Kuali OLE, KoHa). Libraries in countries across Europe and the United Kingdom are moving to…
Are you interested in the reuse and dissemination aspects within the life cycle of complex digital collections, serving as sources for scientific use? If so, then please join the workshop Opening up the collection – reuse and publishing at ELPUB 2016 on 7 June. The workshop is being jointly organised by LIBER’s Working Group on Digital Collections, the DFG-Project…
LIBER Quarterly, our Open Access journal, is currently undergoing a modern facelift. Our publisher Uopen (formerly called Igitur) is, with the help of Ubiquity Press, switching to an updated version of the OJS software. This will add a new look to their journals’ websites and new services. The new services will include: Article level metrics,…
PRESS RELEASE: LIBER Responds to Commission Communication on Copyright 09 December 2015 Time to get down to work on copyright reform for research and innovation In an announcement today, the European Commission has set out its plans for EU copyright reform. It has been fourteen years since the ‘InfoSoc’ Directive. LIBER the Association of European Research…
We live in an age of possibility, often referred to as the era of Big Data. An astonishing 90% of data has been produced in the past two years and over 50 million scholarly articles currently exist. These academic papers alone are treasure troves of content, offering unprecedented opportunity for people to learn, discover and…
