A diverse group of stakeholders including civil society, library, cultural, and industry organisations have issued a joint open letter to the European Commission. LIBER is a signatory to this letter, which calls on the European Commission to introduce copyright reform compatible with the digital environment without curtailing the rights of citizens to freedom of communication…
Find out more about LIBER and our 2015 achievements in this infographic. In just 12 months, we launched the Hague Declaration, held two Leadership Seminars, met 19 European Commission and Parliament Officials in our quest to help shape a copyright exception for Text and Data Mining, and worked on 11 projects funded by the European Commission.…
Open Science is strongly supported by LIBER, and we’ll be at the heart of the Open Science scene in April as co-organisers of four Open Science World Cafés at Day Two of the prestigious Dutch Presidency Open Science Conference in Amsterdam. Representatives from four European Funded projects in which LIBER participates will help coordinate the discussions on…
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…
This week LIBER signed a joint statement together with several large European research infrastructures outlining a common vision for a European Open Science Cloud(OSC). This common vision is an essential starting point for the development of the Cloud and we hope that the plans for the development of the Cloud will take this into account.…
On Tuesday November 3rd a small delegation from LIBER including Executive Director Susan Reilly and Executive Board Member Martin Hallik, and led by LIBER President, Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, met with Vice-President of the European Commission, Andrus Ansip. The Vice-President is responsible for leading the Digital Single Market project. Launched on the same day as the Hague…
We are happy to announce that Helen Frew has joined the LIBER team as our new Advocacy Officer. Helen will work on European policy and advocacy, particularly in relation to text and data mining, copyright and open access. She will be the LIBER contact on the FutureTDM project which kicks-off this month. Helen…
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…
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…
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.
At the October Executive Board meeting in Lausanne the LIBER Executive Board agreed to sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). The Declaration, initiated in 2012 by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) together with a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals, recognises the need to improve the ways in…
