LIBER Alert | Research Library & Open Science News | February 7, 2019
This is the eighth LIBER Alert.
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LIBER News
- Leadership Programme: Apply for our Emerging Leaders programme by 15 February. Learn More
- Data Repository Survey: Librarians, repository managers and technical staff are invited to take part. Participate
- Digital Humanities Survey: Are you working at a LIBER library with a digital collection? If so, please take our survey on digital collections and the activities libraries undertake around them. Learn more
- Plan S: Our Open Access Working Group statement on Plan S guidelines calls for an inclusive approach, since the success of Open Access rests on participation on a global scale. Learn more
- Copyright: LIBER has signed an Open Letter Calling For Deletion of Articles 11 and 13. Learn more
Network & Open Science News
- Open Science at Utrecht University: Version 1.0 of the university’s Open Science plans for 2018-2021 is now available, including financial details. Read
- FAIR Data Advanced Use Cases: A SURF report examining principles and practice in the Netherlands. Read
- Future of Scholarly Publishing & Scholarly Communication: A report of the Expert Group to the European Commission. Read
- OPERAS: A paper looking at how to bring the long tail of Social Sciences and Humanities into Open Science. Read
- Foster Open Science Toolkit: Discover how to reuse it in your own training sessions. Take The Course
Upcoming Events
- Open Data Day, 2 March
- Capturing Practice Research: Improving Visibility and Searchability, London 15 March
- RLUK19, London 20-22 March
- ELAG, Berlin 7-10 May
- EUA Workshop on Research Assessment in the Transition to Open Science, Brussels 14 May
- Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries Conference, Florence 28-31 May
- Erasmus Library Staff Week, Paris 3-7 June
- Open Repositories 2019, Hamburg 10-13 June
- Erasmus Staff Training Week for Librarians, Odense 11-14 June
- User Experience in Libraries, London 17-19 June
- EBLIDA-NAPLE Conference, Dublin 24-25 June
- LIBER Annual Conference, Dublin 26-28 June
- DH2019, Utrecht 9-12 July
Call for Papers
- Research Assessment in the Transition to Open Science (Deadline: 1 March)
- User Experience in Libraries (Deadline: 8 February)
- IFLA WLIC 2019
Jobs
- Open Scholarship Librarian, NUI Galway
- Communications Advisor, TU Delft Library
- Project officer – Data Analysis and Bibliometrics, TU Graz
- Project officer – Data Stewardship, TU Graz
- Open Source Haplo Repository Developer, Haplo
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