At LIBER’s 47th Annual Conference, Jeannette Frey, Director of the Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire (BCU) Lausanne, was appointed as LIBER’s 12th President. She is carrying on the work done by Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen of the National Library of Finland, who served as LIBER President from 2014-2018 and was the first female President in LIBER’s history. “My…
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The importance of Open Science for the future of academia and society as a whole will be underlined this week when France launches its national plan for Open Science at LIBER Europe’s 47th Annual Conference, being held at the University of Lille (4-6 July). The French Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Frédérique Vidal,…
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Open Science undoubtedly has the power to positively influence society. It can make science more collaborative, reproducible, transparent and impactful. Its implementation is, however, not yet universal. A revolution is required: one which opens up research processes and changes mindsets in favour of a world where policies, tools and infrastructures universally support the growth and sharing…
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The use of scholarly metrics is one of the most challenging in the current research field. The proliferation of new models of scholarly communication, the changes in the research assessment field and the extensive use of social media applications have shaken the foundations of traditional metrics paradigms. Open Science — which is at the heart of…
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The EOSC Stakeholders Open Consultation was launched on June 11th by the High Level Expert Group together with the EOSCpilot project during the 2nd EOSC Summit in Brussels. The High Level Expert Group report Prompting an EOSC in practice discusses the minimum criteria to make the EOSC a viable ecosystem and the rules of participation…
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LIBER is looking for a new host for its renowned LIBER Journées programme. Aimed at library directors who are already in leadership positions in their institution, the Journées course focuses on how directors can deliver strategic change as libraries and institutions redefine and transform themselves in a dynamic information and social environment. It is organised by…
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The FOSTER Plus Project and the Digital Skills for Library Staff & Researchers Working Group are co-organising the pre-conference Workshop “Open Science and Research Libraries: Let’s build the skills” on July 4th (09:00 – 12:00), before the 47th LIBER Conference Opening Ceremony. Open science is gaining momentum and research librarians are starting to invent new digital models, to…
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As Europe’s largest network of research libraries, LIBER has consistently fought for copyright reforms which support research and innovation in Europe. The report adopted by European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) on proposed changes to the Commission’s Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive includes draft compromises which are important to libraries in the digital…
DetailsThe EOSCpilot project is organising the pre-conference Workshop “Research Institutions and Libraries and the Role of Funders in the European Open Science Cloud” on July 4th (09:00 – 12:00), just a few hours before the LIBER Conference. The workshop’s purpose is to bring together research funding bodies, institutions and research libraries as key stakeholders of…
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This is a guest post from LIBER sponsor RetroNews; written by Nathalie Thouny and Étienne Manchette. To speed up the digitisation of the press and make press publications all the easier to access, BnF-Partenariats¹, the French National Library’s subsidiary in charge of advancing its digital legacy, has designed and developed, with the support of the…
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LIBER is Europe’s largest research library network. Our network consists mainly of university, national and special libraries. Together we help libraries support world-class research. LIBER was founded in 1971 and is based in The Hague. In November 2017, LIBER launched its new Strategy for 2018-2022: Research Libraries, Powering Sustainable Knowledge in the Digital Age. To…
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In August 2012, Miriam Posner asked the question ‘What are some challenges to doing DH in the library?’. The blog post and subsequent article ‘No Half Measures: Overcoming Common Challenges to Doing Digital Humanities in the Library’, published in January 2013, became part of the often read literature lists of librarians starting with DH and…
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