In recent weeks LIBER has been represented at global and European forums related to data sharing and digital preservation. A common thread throughout these events has been the identification of low hanging fruit on the path to facilitating access to scientific information. The term ‘low hanging fruit’ is one that has been repeated again and…
Now entering its sixth year, OA Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research. Motto: “Set…
Invitation to participate at 8th OAI Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication 2013 sees the 8th OAI Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication at the University of Geneva and at CERN. These Workshops are major international gatherings where those interested in Scholarly Communication developments can meet, discuss and network. OAI8 will be taking place in…
This Blog posting of LIBER President is an overview of a paper given at the 41st LIBER Annual Conference in Tartu, Estonia, in June 2012 1. The Problem What is the problem that this paper is trying to solve? Louise Adler, Chief Executive of Melbourne University Press, has summed up the position of monograph…
LIBER was represented at a Breakfast meeting on 10 October 2012 with MEPs in the European Parliament to talk about Open Data. On 10 October 2012, the President of LIBER was invited to address MEPs in the European Parliament, as one of five panel speakers on the issue of Open Data. The Parliament, Commission and…
Following a 3 day gathering of key stakeholders in digital preservation from all over the globe UNESCO have drafted a declaration containing recommendations to UNESCO, member states, professional organisations, and industry to address the challenges of digital preservation. Over the 3 days of the conference papers were presented by representatives of practitioners and policy makers concerned…
The UNESCO Memory of the World in the digital age conference opened in Vancouver on Wednesday the 26th of September. Here is my run down of day 1 of the conference. Aimed at exploring the main issues affecting the preservation of digital documentary heritage, in order to develop strategies that will contribute to the protection…
International forum for risk management and loss prevention for library collections. Registration is now open. The 4th LIBER collection security conference will be held on Friday November 23 in The National Library of The Netherlands in The Hague. The conference will be organized by the National Library in co-operation with the Dutch National Archives and…
APARSEN has released a report on trust in digital preservation, which presents a European framework for audit and certification of digital repositories. Trust is fundamental to the working of society – in particular when it comes to unfamiliar digitally encoded information, especially when it has passed through several hands over a long period of time. Has it been preserved properly? Is…
LIBER presents another blog post (by Caren Milloy, Head of Projects, JISC Collections, UK) from the series based on contributions from the LIBER Annual Conference 2012. Introduction The primary role of JISC Collections is the licensing of content on behalf of its UK Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE) member organisations. Over…
LIBER is pleased to announce that Open Access research theses from a further 3 EU member States are now available via the DART-Europe portal: Bulgaria – New Bulgarian University; see http://www.dart-europe.eu/browse-list.php?country=Bulgaria Latvia – – University of Latvia; see http://www.dart-europe.eu/browse-list.php?country=Latvia Slovenia – University of Maribor; see http://www.dart-europe.eu/browse-list.php?country=Slovenia DART-Europe now provides access to 324,308 Open Access…
10 years on, leaders from the Open Access movement unite to draft new Budapest Open Access Initiative recommendations WASHINGTON — In response to the growing demand to make research free and available to anyone with a computer and an internet connection, a diverse coalition today issued new guidelines (<defanghtml_span title=”blocked::http://www.soros.org/openaccess/boai-10-recommendations”>http://www.soros.org/openaccess/boai-10-recommendations) that could usher in huge advances in the sciences, medicine, and health.…
