“JUKKA: Open Science, Open Data and Open Access to publications are the most widely discussed topics at the moment. We are beginning to develop all of these areas in our university. We have changed the structure of our library’s organisation, and moulded our services so that they are supporting the needs of our strategists, researchers…
“The BFI has a very healthy attitude to digitisation and making its collections as acessible as possible; we have three national collections, and are partly funded by government. We currently have an open-access free reading room in central London, but we’d like to be able to make our collections more broadly available to more people…
“Big Data Management, cloud computing, research data, research libraries, information policy; these things are all interrelated and interconnected. In Lithuania we are trying to make, from our national libraries, real intellectual libraries which are based on data management. That’s why LIBER is so important to us. It’s a major organisation related to academic competencies which…
“The main work that we do is negotiating electronic content licenses, making sure that users can do everything that they want with the content that we license on their behalf. We’re doing a lot of work on Open Access, to push that forward as much as we can. I’m familiar with what’s going on…
“The biggest advantage of my relationship with LIBER is that we’re doing things co-operatively. We’re often reinventing the wheel at different institutes, doing quite the same things in a slightly different way, and through LIBER we can collaborate more closely and try to learn from what other people have already done instead of doing it ourselves.…
“MASUD: We joined LIBER a year ago because they’re doing innovative work in copyright and text mining initiatives, on Open Science in general, research data management and open access. We wanted to look beyond the institutional processes to see how we can collaborate more widely, both nationally and internationally. LIBER seemed like the right platform…
“ERIK: It’s very important to me to be a part of LIBER because I get new ideas from colleagues all around the world; I get a lot of inspiration and meet new people. We are talking a lot about Open Access and Data Management.This is very new, and we haven’t yet found the role of…
“The LIBER membership is very useful for pushing big issues like copyright law, my specialty, but also for research communities. In the absence of full Open Access and good licensing deals with big publishers, the membership also offers good community exchange and positioning of all the universities that are members in pushing for copyright reform…
“Érudit is a consortium of peer-reviewed journals from Canada, partnered with Canadian libraries on Open Access initiatives to demonstrate how you can get out of the customer/vendor between publishers and libraries and move towards greater collaboration. At the LIBER conference it was so interesting to hear all the librarians reacting and asking questions, building a…
“LIBER is an international organisation. People can find information on the LIBER website that is valuable, it has quality, it is trustworthy. The other important component is LIBER’s network of crucial stakeholders of all kinds, and it’s so nice to have such a big network right at your door.”
“LIBER is a network where research libraries and other parties interested in scholarly communications come together. Open Access is an issue of particular interest for us, because it’s such a change in terms of moving away from subscriptions, from the traditional library roles towards Open Access, and also what that means for librarians and where…
“We have several people in management from our library who are involved in LIBER communities, in copyright and communications, for example. LIBER gives us an international connection. I come from a rather small country comparatively, and we really need an international perspective on what we do. Research today is truly global and sometimes we need help to…
