Scientists, Foundations, Libraries, Universities, and Advocates Unite and Issue New Recommendations to Make Research Freely Available to All Online
10 years on, leaders from the Open Access movement unite to draft new Budapest Open Access Initiative recommendations WASHINGTON — In response to the growing demand to make research free and available to anyone with a computer and an internet connection, a diverse coalition today issued new guidelines (<defanghtml_span title=”blocked::http://www.soros.org/openaccess/boai-10-recommendations”>http://www.soros.org/openaccess/boai-10-recommendations) that could usher in huge advances in the sciences, medicine, and health.…
On 9 September 2012, LIBER sent a formal letter to members of ITRE, the Industry, Research and Energy Committee of the European Parliament. It is feared that MEPs may not be supportive of Open Access and Open Data approaches to the dissemination of scholarship in the forthcoming Horizon 2020 programme. The LIBER letter sets out…
LIBER Members are encouraged to implement the Europeana Search API, in order to enrich their digital collections by giving access to over 23 million digital objects from Europe’s libraries, museums and archives. What is the Europeana Search API? It’s simply an interface that allows remote access to Europeana’s repository of digitised cultural heritage. It is…
The LIBER E-Science working group has published its final report on research data management. LIBER installed the ‘E-Science working group’ in 2010 to investigate the role libraries can and should play in the field of E-Science. The group decided to focus on research data as it was felt to be the most urgent element of…
The results of the ODE LIBER survey on libraries and their role in data exchange are now available. Two new reports from the Opportunities for Data Exchange(ODE) have been published today. One is a report on Best Practices for Citability of Data and Evolving Roles in Scholarly Communication.This report explores developments in best practice…
My recent attendance at the IFLA Congress in Helsinki has led me to contemplate both how data privacy affects libraries in terms of their role in facilitating access to information and also as part of their role in protecting the privacy of their patrons and in promoting an open society. More specifically it led me…
The 4th LIBER Collection Security Conference will be held in the National Library of The Netherlands in The Hague on Friday 23rd November 2012. The conference will be organized by the National Library in co-operation with the National Archives. Detailed information will follow.
Recently I have been talking a lot about how libraries can offer support to researchers in data management. As part of the Opportunities for Data Exchange project, LIBER carried out a survey of research libraries to measure the perceived demand for such support. A sizable 81% of the respondent libraries reported that data management support was…
LIBER response to the Communication and the Recommendation to Member States on “access to and preservation of scientific information” Last week, the European Commission published the Communication and the Recommendation to Member States on “access to and preservation of scientific information”. Both documents strongly support Open Access as a way of making the free circulation…
In this eventful week for Open Access the MedOANet project had its first partner Workshop, hosted by FECYT, (the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) on the 16th of July 2012 in Madrid. MedAONet partner workshop The Hague, July 19th 2012 In this eventful week for Open Access the MedOANet project had its first…
The Mediterranean Open Access Network Project welcomes and supports the European Commission’s Communication “Towards better access to scientific information” and the Recommendation to Member States on “access to and preservation of scientific information”. Athens, July 18, 2012 The Mediterranean Open Access Network Project (MedOANet; www.medoanet.eu) welcomes and supports the European Commission’s Communication “Towards betteraccess to…
The final workshop for the AAA study was held in Brussels on the 12th of July. I presented the library requirement for an AAI. Below is this text to accompany my presentation. As Project Officer for LIBER, I have been working as part of the AAA Study group to help define the requirements for the…
