The last year was a busy one for LIBER. Apart from our increased activities in European Projects, we enjoyed an extremely successful Annual Conference in London (we’re already planning the 2016 conference in Helsinki) and welcomed a new member of the Executive Board, Ms Anja Smit, together with a number of new colleagues at the office in The…
New library systems are being launched, which will deeply affect how libraries carry out their core procedures and tasks. They include the upcoming cloud-based systems of the world‘s largest suppliers Ex Libris and OCLC, and Open Source systems under construction (e.g. Kuali OLE, KoHa). Libraries in countries across Europe and the United Kingdom are moving to…
Are you interested in the reuse and dissemination aspects within the life cycle of complex digital collections, serving as sources for scientific use? If so, then please join the workshop Opening up the collection – reuse and publishing at ELPUB 2016 on 7 June. The workshop is being jointly organised by LIBER’s Working Group on Digital Collections, the DFG-Project…
PRESS RELEASE: LIBER Responds to Commission Communication on Copyright 09 December 2015 Time to get down to work on copyright reform for research and innovation In an announcement today, the European Commission has set out its plans for EU copyright reform. It has been fourteen years since the ‘InfoSoc’ Directive. LIBER the Association of European Research…
We live in an age of possibility, often referred to as the era of Big Data. An astonishing 90% of data has been produced in the past two years and over 50 million scholarly articles currently exist. These academic papers alone are treasure troves of content, offering unprecedented opportunity for people to learn, discover and…
On 11 November, OpenMinTeD (a project in which LIBER participates) and Europeana organised a workshop titled ‘Text and Data Mining in Europe: Challenges and Action’. The goal of the workshop was to bring together content providers (publishers, data centers, museums and libraries) who are open to making their data available for Text and Data Mining (TDM).…
A two-day workshop on Research Data Management in Libraries was held at LIBER’s 2015 Annual Conference. A report summarising the outcomes of the plenary discussions and the outbreak sessions is now available. The workshop targeted two core activity areas: The translation of institutional data management policies into research support services. The need to support researchers…
The LIBER Office wishes all of our members, along with the wider library and cultural heritage community, a wonderful holiday season. Our office will close for two weeks from 21 December 2015. We will reopen on 4 January 2015.
The LIBER Office wishes all of our members, along with the wider library and cultural heritage community, a wonderful holiday season. Our office will close for two weeks from 21 December 2015. We will reopen on 4 January 2015.
The Call for Papers for LIBER’s 2016 Annual Conference in Helsinki, Finland — from 29 June to 1 July — is now open. Submit your proposal before 15 February 2016.
The PASTEUR4OA project is pleased to invite you to Amsterdam on 17-18 May 2016 for their final conference: Green Light for Open Access: Aligning Europe’s OA Policies. The conference comes at a time of high interest in open access, and as its many benefits are now being widely recognised. These include more equal access to…
We are seeking LIBER members willing to contribute to the EC funded project AARC (Authentication and Authorization for Research and Collaboration), in which LIBER is an active partner, representing the research libraries community. AARC aims to develop an integrated cross-discipline authentication and authorization framework, built on existing and on production federated infrastructures. With that aim,…
