In 2015 the Japanese Government launched ‘Towards Open Science Policy in Japan’, a programme on Open Science. At present Open Science is fostered mainly at a political level but other stakeholders are becoming involved as well. In 2013 the Japan Science and Technology Agency adopted an open access policy at a recommended level. In 2015…
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) met in Vancouver from 24 to 28 April 2016. The two North American associations have a joint meeting every five years, so the meeting this year with almost 200 members present was much bigger than typical spring meetings. Both bodies also…
The Dutch government is strongly in favour of Open Access and aims for the Netherlands to be 100% Open Access by 2024. A road for Open Access was started in 2013 by Sander Dekker, State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, who expressed his support for open access to scientific publications. A gold OA route was chosen.…
LIBER has been invited to attend a series of high-level round-table discussions on EU copyright. In my capacity as the President of LIBER I attended a meeting focusing on Text and Data Mining (TDM) and chaired by Commissioner Oettinger in Brussels in early February 2015. LIBER´s main message at the meeting was: “We are advocating…
