“My involvement with LIBER has just come by chance, through conferences I’ve been at, or through European-funded projects that we’ve been on. The main issue for DCC is Research Data Management, and for me it’s around Data Management Planning. Libraries play a key role in helping researchers, because they’re already managing their data, but all…
“The future changes and challenges for university libraries” was the main topic of discussion for the leaders of four Nordic capital university libraries at a two-day workshop taking place in April. For thousands of years, libraries have been used as a way to gather and preserve knowledge in printed books. With the new age of…
Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, who is currently Director of Library Network Services at the National Library of Finland was appointed as LIBER’s 11th President at LIBER 2014 Annual Conference. This followed her significant contributions to the development of LIBER during four years as Vice President. She has also been very active in other international networks such as…
OAI9 took place in the University of Geneva on 17-19 June 2015. The CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication takes place every 2 years and is a magnet for all those in Europe (and from further afield) who are interested in new modes of communication for scholarly outputs. Scholarly Communication issues are global issues.…
“I have been a Humanities researcher and educator, and working for LIBER has given me a valuable insight into the infrastructures that support and sustain cultures of research, and which cultivate and preserve knowledge for future generations.” – Dan North, Project Officer, LIBER, The Hague, Netherlands
Hege van Dijke has joined the LIBER team as our new Communications & Events Officer. She will work on updating the website and our social media channels, and will take care of the publicity and the organisation of events. She will work in close collaboration with the LIBER projects officers, in order to communicate the work…
On 18 May 2015, STM issued a press release in response to the publication of the Commission’s ‘Communication on Single Digital Market Strategy for Europe’. In this press release, STM addressed the Commission’s suggestion that an exception for text and data mining (TDM) should be introduced as part of the Commission’s ongoing work in updating…
A Workshop on the OpenAIRE2020 FP7 post-grant Gold Open Access Pilot will be held on June 24th at the LIBER Annual Conference in London. This workshop will provide a key opportunity for the dissemination of this initiative, whose success will heavily rely on an effective outreach strategy towards eligible researchers and FP7 projects. The main…
LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, has a mission to provide an information infrastructure to enable the research outputs of LIBER institutions to be world class. LIBER welcomes the European Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe as an important move to boost the Digital Economy in Europe to safeguard the future. The strategy contains several…
“What LIBER has made clear to me is that it is so good to have a colleague network abroad. In the past, I’ve had answers within an hour from colleagues all over Europe when I had a question, a problem, or wanted to know how to organize something. LIBER is the only place that is so all-European.” -Sylvia van Peteghem, Chief Librarian, Ghent University Library, Belgium
More than 300 global organisations and individuals, including LIBER, have signed up to support The Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age. LIBER also led efforts to write the Declaration, which was launched last week in Brussels. It calls for immediate changes to intellectual property (IP) law and the removal of other barriers…
Nils-Lennart Johannesson is Professor of English Linguistics at Stockholm University and has worked with language and research since the 1970s. Nils-Lennart is an advocate of Open Access and encourages other researchers to make their research more accessible. He is also the chair of the editorial board of Stockholm English Studies at Stockholm University Press (SUP).…
