Registration is now open for LIBER’s 43rd Annual Conference. Join us in Riga, Latvia for three days of workshops, talks and discussions around the theme of ‘Research Libraries in the 2020 Information Landscape’. The Conference will take place from July 2nd to July 5th in the newly built National Library of Latvia. Delegates can…
LIBER has submitted its response to the European Commission consultation on copyright rules. On behalf of our network of library members across Europe, we are calling for copyright legislation to better accommodate and nurture the changing nature of research and innovation in the digital age. We believe that such a transformation is urgently needed. So…
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…
Dan North has joined the LIBER team as a new Projects Officer. He will work to provide support for the development and dissemination of our European projects, primarily FOSTER, which aims to facilitate the adoption of open access strategies in research. He will also assist with the coordination of LIBER’s participation in Horizon 2020. Dan was…
This week LIBER was in Portugal for the first project meeting of PASTEUR4OA. The meeting was opened by the project coordinator, Victoria Tsoukola from EKT. PASTEUR4OA (Open Access Policy Alignment Strategies for European Union Research) aims to support the European Commission’s Recommendation to Member States of July 2012 that they develop and implement policies to…
The two year EC-funded FOSTER project focuses on developing skills and training in open access, open data and open science.
Read the first FOSTER article in Info Today: “Heading for Open Science – Filling the knowledge gap.”
“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…
LIBER is pleased to announce the launch of the FOSTER project. The project, in which LIBER is a partner, aims to accelerate knowledge and practice of open access and open science, especially among young researchers, across all fields. In addition, it will mobilize other stakeholders, such as project managers, administrators, and librarians, in support of…
The 3rd LIBER workshop on Digital Curation will take place from the 19th to the 20th of May in Vienna. The management of digital objects (e.g. articles, datasets, images, streams of data, multimedia objects) and non-digital objects (namely real-world entities, like authors, institutions, teams, geographic locations, etc.) is a crucial issue for the whole scientific…
The library community has an extra month to respond to the European Commission’s Copyright Consultation, now that the deadline has been extended to March 5th. Responding to the consultation is critical because its outcomes will affect anyone who works with researchers, or who cares about future library services and access to cultural heritage. Keep…
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…
2014 is shaping up to be a busy year for LIBER. Here are some of the activities that we’re working on this year, on behalf of our more than 400 research library members across Europe. #1. Horizon 2020 Funding Bids The European Commission’s €15 billion Horizon 2020 funding program offers unique opportunities for research libraries to…
