It is with great sadness that LIBER notes the passing of Erland Kolding Nielsen, Director of the Royal Danish Library. As a long-time avid supporter, Vice-President of LIBER from 1999-2002 and President from 2003-2006, Erland contributed significantly to LIBER’s work. He generously gave LIBER a home for its first permanent secretariat at the Royal Library…
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LIBER participated in the kick-off meeting of the European Open Science Cloud for Research pilot (EOSCpilot) project, 17-18 January in Amsterdam. LIBER is one of the 33 partners working on the EOSCpilot — a project which will support the first development phase of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The EOSCpilot project will address some…
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The deadline for applying for the 2017 LIBER Journées leadership programme, exclusively for Library Directors, has been extended to 22 January 2017. The second LIBER Journees, 17-19 May 2017, is designed for 20-25 Library Directors who are already in leadership positions in their institutions and who are looking ahead at delivering strategic change as libraries and…
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LIBER is pleased to welcome Gwen Franck as our newest team member. As an Open Access Project Officer for LIBER, Gwen is coordinating the OpenAIRE FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot, which is run by LIBER. She brings to the role extensive experience related to Open Science. As a freelance consultant, Gwen has worked for several organisations…
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LIBER is one of five key European research organisations calling on legislators to modify current EU copyright reform proposals, giving Europe the opportunity to become a global leader in data-driven innovation and research.
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The LIBER Office wishes our research library community, and the wider library and cultural heritage community, a wonderful holiday season. Our office will be closed for two weeks from 26 December 2016, and will reopen on 9 January 2017. During the break, please consider submitting a paper or poster proposal for the LIBER 2017 Annual Conference…
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Libraries across Europe are rolling out research support services, including for Research Data Management (RDM), and helping libraries to play a key role in this field is essential to one of LIBER’s core strategic objectives: Enabling Open Science. To discuss current developments and initiatives in this field, our Scholarly Communications & Research Infrastructures Steering Committee…
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After each LIBER Annual Conference, we ask delegates for feedback so that we can improve future events. In addition to sharing overall opinions about the conference, delegates rate the presentations which they attended. The 2016 survey results are now available, and the following presentations were selected as the 10 best by conference attendees. As you peruse…
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Last week, LIBER held a webinar on Research Data Services (RDS) in Europe’s academic research libraries. Internationally renowned researcher Professor Carol Tenopir presented the key findings of a recent LIBER-DataONE survey on RDS, and Birgit Schmidt and Rob Grim from LIBER’s Working Group on Scientific Information Infrastructures moderated the lively discussion and questions from attendees.…
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