In the coming six months, libraries have a unique opportunity to influence how European copyright law will be developed. LIBER is at the heart of the action, making sure the interests of Europe’s research libraries are heard. We’re collaborating across our network, to ensure that Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) consider libraries as they…
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The theme of the 6th edition of the EUhackathon held at Google headquarters in Brussels last week was ‘visualising copyright evidence to inform the policy debate and support the decision making process’. The foremost objective of the initiative was to raise awareness and encourage debate around copyright and text and data mining. The goal of the…
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Submit a Paper or Poster for the LIBER 2017 Conference in Patras, Greece (5-7 July). Contributions are being accepted on a number of themes, including Sustainability, Vision, Knowledge and Data Management, and Leadership.
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Martine Oudenhoven has joined the LIBER team as our new Community Engagement Officer. She will work on stakeholder-engagement related activities for EU-projects, primarily for OpenMinTeD and AARC. Martine has a background in communication and an MSc in Biology. Before joining LIBER, she worked as communications advisor for Leiden University Medical Center and the Faculty of…
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The LIBER Executive Board meeting in autumn 2016 was hosted by Stockholm University Library, at their university campus on 19-20 October. The finalisation of our 2018-22 Strategic Framework elicited intense discussion amongst the Board members. It has been one year since the Board first began to work on drafting the next LIBER Strategy; a process…
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Transforming Research Libraries: The Leadership Challenge. That is the title of LIBER’s second Leadership Journées Programme, exclusively for Library Directors and set to take place in May 2017. The programme will take place from 17-19 May at Sciences Po, in the heart of Paris. The Paris Institute of Political Studies is ideally located on the Left…
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The European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) has just published its first report and recommendations. It calls for immediate action to build the EOSC, in close collaboration with Member states. “The challenge is clear to us: if we do not act, there might be a looming crisis on…
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Copyright law is complex. That’s why our Copyright Working Group has just published a basic guide to Limitations and Exceptions in EU Copyright Law for Libraries, Educational and Research Establishments. The freely downloadable document is an introductory guide to copyright law as it relates to schools, universities, their libraries, national libraries, and public libraries. Limitations and…
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Anyone who’s attended a LIBER conference may have wondered why LIBER does not publish conference proceedings. Some talks from the conferences have always been written down as papers, and later published in LIBER Quarterly, but these were spread over the various volumes and issues of the journal, and never covered all conference contributions. It is…
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Almost all of Europe’s academic research libraries are working collaboratively, within and outside of their institutions, to help ensure that the scientific data of today is curated properly, so it can be accessed, shared and reused by future generations. That is one conclusion from a recent survey on Research Data Services (RDS), carried out by a…
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As part of LIBER´s work to connect and represent research libraries we initiate and participate in strategic and innovative European projects. All of our projects relate, in one way or another, to Open Science. Do you have a research background? Are you familiar with the issues addressed in these projects — Open Science, including Open Science Training,…
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