LIBER Alert | Research Library and Open Science News | September 27, 2019

Posted: 27-09-2019 Topics: Office News

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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 projectRegister
  • 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

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