LIBER Alert | Research Library and Open Science News | September 27, 2019
This is the 22nd LIBER Alert.
LIBER Alerts are delivered once every two weeks to you and 299 other readers because you’ve signed up for news, resources and links from LIBER, its network and the world of Open Science. Receive LIBER Alerts directly by email.
LIBER News
- New Citizen Science Project: LIBER has begun work on INOS; a project funded by the EU’s Erasmus+ Programme and focused on open and citizen science in higher education. Read more
SSHOC Workshop: Using Corpora for Implementing Validation. Workflows that combine quantity and quality.This workshop on 30 September in Leipzig is intended for political and social scientists who are interested in using large text collections in their research. Learn more - Workshop on EOSC Services, Collaborations, and the RDA: This workshop on 21 October will discuss commonalities and collaborative solutions for community research data services. It is a side event to the RDA Plenary, and coordinated by the SSHOC project. Register
- Latest Articles in LIBER Quarterly: Increasing Library Intelligence by Harmonizing Assessment Tools– case study by Aggeliki Giannopoulou, Georgia Giannopoulou, Alexandra Goudis and Giannis Tsakonas, and Rebels with a Cause? Supporting Library and Academic-led Open Access Publishing – article by Joe Deville , Jeroen Sondervan, Graham Stone and Sofie Wennström.
- Upcoming LIBER Webinars: On 7 November at 1500 CET we will discuss Digital Preservation Opportunities & Challenges Ahead and on 14 November at 1500 CET we will cover Data Curation from a Practical Perspective. Registration for both webinars will open in the coming days. Want to know as soon as registration opens? Join our webinars mailing list
Network & Open Science News
- Top 10 FAIR Data & Software Things: During the last Library Carpentry-Mozilla Global Sprint, 34 sprinters from 31 organizations added 6 additional topics to the Top 10 FAIR Data & Software Things. The whole set of topics has also been published. Read
- FAIRsFAIR Open Consultation: FAIRsFAIR is looking to assess the skills, practices, services and policies required to make research data FAIR. If you support research data management or provide related services they would like to hear from you. Learn more
- European Dataverse Workshop 2020: Save the date for the European Dataverse Workshop 2020, to be held from January 23-24, 2020 at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Learn more
- FAIR Data Stewardship Course: Organized by the Helis Academy, this 3-days training course will introduce the most important concepts of data stewardship including the data life cycle and its stages, the FAIR principles and a definition of data stewardship and data steward. Learn more
Upcoming Events
- 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
- European Dataverse Workshop, Tromsø 23-24 January 2020
- Open Science Conference 2020, Berlin 11-12 March 2020
- RLUK20, London 16-18 March 2020
- Libraries In The Digital age (LIDA) 2020, Dubrovnik 19-22 May 2020
- 12th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML2020), Barcelona 26-30 May 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
- ICTeSSH, Amsterdam 29 June – 1 July 2020
Call for Papers
- New Shape of Sharing: Networks, Expertise, Information, Fiesole (Deadline: 30 September)
- Libraries In The Digital age (LIDA) 2020 (Deadline: 1 October)
- Open Science Conference 2020 (Deadline: 11 October)
- RLUK20 (Deadline: 25 November)
- ICTeSSH (Deadline: 29 November)
- 12th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML2020) (Deadline: 20 December)
Jobs
- Scholarly Communications Lead, The British Library (Closing date: 29 September)
- Scientific Information Specialist ‘Science and (Bio)Medical Sciences’: Building on Open Science, Utrecht University Library
- Systems Librarian, iii innovative
- Traineeship, European University Institute Library (Closing date: 31 October)
Want to share your news in the next LIBER Alert? Email liber@kb.nl with a one sentence description and a link related to the news, event or job vacancy you’d like to share. LIBER Alerts are brought to you by Europe’s Largest Network of Research Libraries.