LIBER Alert | Research Library & Open Science News | October 19, 2018
This is the first LIBER Alert, a twice-monthly bulletin from LIBER Europe.
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LIBER & Network News
- LIBER Libraries & the EOSC: We’ll be in Vienna later this month, promoting the role of research libraries in the upcoming European Open Science Cloud. Read
- Open Access Week: Participate in a MicroMOOC and webinars. Read
- Federated Identity Management for Libraries: Why and How. Read
- SSHOC Project: LIBER is participating in SSHOC, a new project to create a European open cloud ecosystem for social sciences and humanities (SSH). Read
Open Science News
- Free Book from UCL Press: Citizen Science. Innovation in Open Science, Society & Policy. Download
- Plan S: Statement on Opportunities and Challenges for Implementing Plan S. The View of Young Academies. Read
- Open Access: Reflections from Sweden on 100 days after the cancellation of their contract with Elsevier. Read
- Road To Open Science Podcast: The Untapped Potential. Listen
Upcoming Events
- The European Open Science Cloud: Austria Takes Initiative 30 October
- Focus on Open Science, Belgrade 12 November
- Focus on Open Science, Budapest 15 November
- Focus on Open Science, Vienna 16 November
- Second EOSC Stakeholders Forum, Vienna 21-22 November
- EOSC Launch, Vienna 23 November
- Focus on Open Science, Dublin 29 November
- LIBER Annual Conference, Dublin 26-28 June
- DH2019, Utrecht 9-12 July
Call for Papers
- DH2019, Utrecht (open until 27 November)
Vacancies
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