LIBER Alert | Research Library and Open Science News | December 2, 2019
This is the 26th LIBER Alert.
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LIBER News
- LIBER 2020: The Call for Papers for LIBER’s 2020 Annual Conference in Belgrade from 24 to 26 June, is now open. The deadline for submitting a proposal is 13 January 2020. Read
- New FIM4L Working Group: Our new FIM4L Working Group aims to develop a library policy for federated authentication which is broadly supported by libraries and publishers. All staff working in LIBER institutions are welcome to take part. Read more
- Copyright Guidance: Our Copyright & Legal Matters Working Group has released three sets of documents, all of which aim to guide research library staff and academics on the implementation of the new Digital Single Market Directive:
- Transposing the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market: A Guide for Libraries and Library Associations (in collaboration with EBLIDA, IFLA, SPARC Europe)
- Digital Single Market Directive – Articles 8-11: Checklist for Determining When This Exception for Mass Digitisation of Out-of-Commerce Works Can Be Used (in collaboration with EBLIDA, IFLA)
- Funding Call for SHERPA RoMEO: We invite our community to consider backing the SCOSS Funding Call for SHERPA RoMEO. Read more
- SSH Open Cloud News:
- At the EOSC Symposium on 26-28 November in Budapest, LIBER participated in two sessions and presented on Upskilling & Training for Libraries: LIBER’s Role and Perspective and Training in the SSHOC project
- Sign up for the SSHOC newsletter and join the SSHOC Training Community.
- New in LIBER Quarterly:
- Embedded students? Can libraries benefit from students having work placements in the library in planning library instruction? – Article onhow students can be more integrated in developing library instruction and what advantages that can provide for librarians planning their teaching. Read
Network & Open Science News
- Open Education Survey: SPARC Europe and the European Open Education Librarian Network are seeking insights into OE practices within European academic libraries. Take the survey
Upcoming Events
- Open Access in a Global Perspective: Comparing Policies and Practices, Leuven 2 December
- 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
- 22nd Annual Fiesole Retreat, Athens 7-9 April 2020
- New Shape of Sharing: Networks, Expertise, Information, Fiesole 11-14 May 2020
- LIBER Journées Leadership Programme, Budapest 13-15 May 2020
- IASSIST 2020, Gothenburg 19-22 May 2020
- ECSA 2020, Trieste 24-26 May 2020
- CONUL Conference 2020, Limerick 27-28 May 2020
- LIBER 2020 Annual Conference, Belgrade 24-26 June 2020
- ICTeSSH 2020, Amsterdam 29 June – 1 July 2020
- IATUL, Porto 12-16 July 2020
Call for Papers
- IASSIST 2020 (Deadline: 6 December)
- 12th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML2020) (Deadline: 20 December)
- IATUL (Deadline: 15 January)
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