LIBER recently wrote to the Glasgow School of Art, to extend its sympathy at the news of the devastating fire. Professor Tom Inns Ms Alison Stevenson Glasgow School of Art 28 May 2014 Dear Tom and Alison LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) is devastated to hear of the serious damage to the…
LIBER welcomes the recent publication of figures showing UK university expenditure on Elsevier’s journal packages. The figures shine a light on a market that currently lacks transparency and expose the wide variation in prices being paid by UK universities. These variations cannot be rationally explained in the current market where universities are subscribing to very…
LIBER is pleased to announce that Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and its 34 research library members have joined our network. The members of RLUK include the leading and most significant research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Their formal partnering with LIBER is a key part of RLUK’s aims to enable greater synergy and cooperation between…
Dr. Paul Ayris, President of LIBER, reports on our recent Digital Curation Workshop in Vienna, Austria. LIBER held its 3rd Digital Curation Workshop in the University of Vienna on 19-20 May 2014, with 97 registered delegates. This Workshop was organised under the aegis of LIBER’s new Forum on Digital Cultural Heritage. The Programme can be…
LIBER recently wrote to the Turkish Library Association, to extend its sympathy at the news of the mining disaster in Soma. Mr. Ali Fuat Kartal President Turkish Library Association Dear Mr President On behalf of the Board of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries), I am writing to extend to you and to library…
LIBER has joined more than 50 library, archive and research institutions from countries across the European Union and internationally in signing a letter which asks the European Union to engage constructively in text-based discussions at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) on copyright exceptions for libraries and archives. The letter highlights the copyright challenges preventing international…
LIBER has signed a statement supporting immediate open access to research articles. The text of the statement is as follows: As organizations committed to the principle that access to information advances discovery, accelerates innovation and improves education, we endorse the policies and practices that enable Open Access – immediate, barrier free access to and reuse…
Today, LIBER is pleased to present its new logo and a redesigned website. It’s the product of months of work by the LIBER Office, our Website Taskforce and the Advocacy & Communications Steering Committee. We’re proud of the result, and hope you also like it. Our goal is to make it easier for you to find,…
Discussions by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) broke down in the early hours of Saturday morning May 3, 2014, after the European Union (EU) attempted to block future discussion of copyright laws to aid libraries and archives fulfill their missions in the digital environment. Library and…
The closing date for nominations for vacancies on the LIBER Executive Board is Friday 19 June 2014. If you are interested in standing for appointment, please make sure that you send your completed nomination form by that date. Appointments to the following vacancies on the LIBER Executive Board will be made at the Meeting of…
The following is the text of the presentation on cross border issues in digital presentation made by Barbara Szczepanska of EiFL, also a member of the LIBER Copyright Working Group at the IFLA side event at SCCR27 at WIPO in Geneva. I will talk about digital preservation and shared infrastructures for preservation. Digital preservation is a…
At a side event at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), LIBER President, Dr. Paul Ayris outlined the cross border copyright and licencing issues faced by research libraries. The event was titled Information Without Borders: libraries and archives in a global information ecosystem and was organised by the International Federation of Library Associations…
