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).…
The closing date for nominations has now passed. Appointments to the following vacancies will be made at the Meeting of Participants in Senate House Library, London, on Thursday 25 June 2015: (1) BOARD MEMBER The following (3) Executive Board members have completed terms of office. They are eligible for re-appointment for a further term of…
The Editorial Board of LIBER Quarterly invites tenders for the hosting of the LIBER Quarterly open access journal. LIBER Quarterly is the journal of LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries). It aims at publishing high quality innovative OA peer-reviewed articles (theoretical and good practice) from specialists working in…
In recent months, LIBER has been leading the process to draft The Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age. The final Declaration is now ready to be launched and will be officially unveiled at the offices of Science Europe on 6 May 2015. Paul Ayris of University College London will introduce the Declaration and…
LIBER’s March Mailing — containing strategy updates and information about our Annual Conference — is now available on our website. Highlights include the publication of the LIBER 2015 Conference Programme and the Vision 2027 panel, planned during the conference. This session will be a first step in the development of LIBER’s next five-year strategy (2018-2022). The…
At our 2014 Annual Conference, LIBER participants and Executive Board members, told us why being part of LIBER is important for them as librarians and for their insitutions.
Watch the video to learn why others have joined LIBER and how your library could benefit from joining LIBER. More details are available on our website.
The FOSTER project is a 2-year, FP7-funded initiative to facilitate training for Open Access and Open Science in the European research community. One of the key outputs from the project’s partners will be a training portal, gathering existing resources into a single online hub, and organising them into curricula and courses for the benefit of…
Don MacMillan is Liaison Librarian for Biological Sciences, Math, Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics at the University of Calgary’s Taylor Family Digital Library. In this guest post, he highlights how he helped students to develop better information literacy with regards to several bioinformatics sources and offers tips for librarians wishing to do the same in their…
LIBER is pleased to announce that Melanie Imming has been appointed EU Projects Manager. Melanie first joined LIBER on a temporary basis in October 2014 and will now become a permanent member of the LIBER team. Working as a Senior Project Manager at the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) for the last six years,…
