LIBER recently published Five Principles for libraries to use when conducting Open Access negotiations with publishers. These principles are meant to be understood as a minimum requirement when libraries or consortia have to negotiate new licensing deals, and the aim of the Principles is to create more opportunities to publish Open Access material. The Principles were…
DetailsLIBER is proud to announce that two new library professionals — Agnès Ponsati Obiols, Digital Library and Information Systems Director at the Spanish National Library and Bertil Dorch, Director of the University Library of Southern Denmark — have joined our Executive Board. Agnès Ponsati Obiols Agnès Ponsati Obiols joined the Spanish National Library in September as their Digital…
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Twenty organisations, including LIBER, have signed an open letter to European lawmakers calling for changes to a proposed Text and Data Mining exception. Coordinated by the European Alliance for Research Excellence, the letter asks Members of the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) in the European Parliament and Deputy Permanent Representatives of the 28 Member States to…
DetailsResearch libraries are closely watching the European Commission’s current work to reform copyright legislation because libraries and their users will be directly impacted by any changes to the law. Particularly interesting for libraries is a proposed new exception for Text and Data Mining (TDM) but numerous issues related to this potential exception still need to…
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This letter of thanks comes from LIBER President, Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen. On behalf of LIBER’s Executive Board, I would like to thank everyone who attended and contributed to our 2017 Annual Conference. Over 300 of you cleared your schedules and travelled considerable distances to join us in Patras, Greece. It was a pleasure to welcome you…
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Our 2017 Annual Conference in Patras, Greece was a great success, largely thanks to the informative and thoughtful presentations given by professionals from LIBER libraries across Europe and our broader global library community. After the conference, we asked all delegates to share their opinions via a survey. Using the results of the survey, we’ve compiled…
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LIBER has endorsed the principles of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Declaration on Open Science and believes that its 400+ research library members across Europe have a strong role to play in enabling Open Science. Download our full statement on the EOSC Declaration (PDF), or read it below. LIBER, the Association of European Research…
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Text and data mining – using algorithms to analyse content in ways that would be impossible for humans – is shaping up to be a vital research tool of the 21st century. But Europe lags behind other parts of the world in adopting these new technologies. The FutureTDM project has just concluded its’ two-year EC-funded research…
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LIBER has signed an open letter directed at the EU’s Legal Affairs Committee (JURI), in an attempt to stop recent EU copyright reform developments which threaten Open Access and Open Science. In the letter, LIBER and 14 other organisations express particular alarm at the potential impact of Article 11, which relates to Ancillary Copyright, and Article…
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LIBER, Europe’s leading association of research libraries, presents Five Principles for libraries to use when conducting Open Access negotiations with publishers. The principles are based on the experiences of LIBER libraries in the past two years, and aim to guide libraries and consortia as they shift from a reader-pays model (subscription licensing) to an author-pays…
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For nearly 50 years LIBER has been the voice of Europe’s research libraries, working for the benefit of our institutions, their staff and researchers. Throughout the years, our Mission and Values have been a key part of who we are: driving our work on a daily basis and informing our long-term strategy. Because of the…
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The Open Science Fair 2017 is an international conference that will take place in Athens, Greece, September 6th-8th 2017 and it is organized as “an emblematic initiative of four EU projects in the area of Open Science: OpenAIRE, OpenUP, FOSTER and OpenMinTeD“. The purpose of this conference is to bring together different stakeholders (funders, policy…
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