LIBER Alert | Research Library and Open Science News | September 11, 2019
This is the 21st LIBER Alert.
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LIBER News
- Metrics Webinar Video: On 10 September, we discussed the topics of responsible metrics and openness in assessments of scholarly work during a webinar. Watch the recording
- The Right to Read is the Right to Mine: Tell LIBER’s Copyright & Legal Matters Working Group and LACA about instances where you found Technical Protection Measures (TPMs) blocking text and data mining (TDM) of content. Take the survey
- Advocate for Libraries and Research: Are you a research librarian working in Europe? If so, you have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to help shape your national copyright legislation. LIBER urges you to get involved, and has produced a step-by-step guide to help. Learn more
Network & Open Science News
- Citizen Science and Libraries: Waltzing Towards a Collaboration. Paper by Tiberius Ignat, Darlene Cavalier and Caroline Nickerson on current policies, recommendations, and practices from the US and Europe in support of libraries seeking to engage with citizen science. Read
- Data Foundry: The National Library of Scotland’s new data collections website. Visit
- Europeana Research Event Grants: Europeana is inviting proposals for organizing events that bring together cultural heritage professionals and researchers. Deadline: 31 October. Read more
- European Open Science Policy Analysis: The latest version of the Analysis of Open Data and Open Science Policies in Europe has been published. SPARC Europe is inviting the user community to provide feedback on the report. Take the survey
- TU Wien Academic Press Looking for Contractors: Contracts will be awarded for work packages to optimize the discoverability of book publications and to refine processes and standards in scientific monographs publishing. Deadline: 20 September. Read more
Upcoming Events
- RDMF19 – Costing data management, London 16 September
- Open Science FAIR, Porto 16-18 September
- 14th European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning, Delft 16-19 September
- Focus on Open Science, Chapter XVIII, Budapest 17 September
- PUBMET2019, Zadar 19-20 September
- Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2019 Feature Conference, Gothenburg 24-26 September 2019
- SSHOC Workshop: Using Corpora for Implementing Validation. Workflows That Combine Quantity and Quality, Leipzig 30 September
- International Library Summit, Venice 4 October
- Open Education Policy Forum, Warsaw 7-8 October
- Focus on Open Science, Chapter XIX, Gdansk 8 October
- FORCE2019, Edinburgh 15-17 October
- Open and Engaged, London 22 October
- RDA’s 14th Plenary, Helsinki 23-25 October
- Focus on Open Science, Chapter XX, Kaunas 29 October
- The Future of Research: Assessing the Impact of Plan S, Leuven 5-6 November
- Focus on Open Science, Chapter XXI, Graz 7 November
- Focus on Open Science, Chapter XXII, Ljubljana 8 November
- DCDC Conference, Birmingham 12-14 November
- 11th Semantic Web in Libraries Conference, Hamburg 25-27 November
- EOSC Symposium 2019, Budapest 26-18 November
- 77th Estonian DH Conference, Tallin 4-6 December
- 16th Conference of the Serbian Library Association, Belgrade 12-13 December
- Open Science Conference 2020, Berlin, 11-12 March 2020
- LIBER Architecture Seminar, Luxembourg 1-3 April 2020
- New Shape of Sharing: Networks, Expertise, Information, Fiesole 11-14 May 2020
- LIBER Journées Leadership Programme, Budapest 13-15 May 2020
- LIBER 2020 Annual Conference, Belgrade 24-26 June 2020
Call for Papers
- 16th Conference of the Serbian Library Association (Deadline: 20 September)
- New Shape of Sharing: Networks, Expertise, Information, Fiesole (Deadline: 30 September)
- Open Science Conference 2020 (Deadline 11 October)
Jobs
- Project Manager (Open Research), University of Cambridge
- Scholarly Communications Lead, The British Library
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