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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Registration is now open for the 2017 LIBER’s Journées Programme for Library Directors, taking place 17-19 May in Paris. Application Form (Word doc) Draft Programme (PDF) Strategic Vision (PDF) The Programme 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…
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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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LIBER is a strong supporter not only of Open Access but also of Open Science, including the open publication of research data. For this reason it is very important that LIBER Quarterly (LQ) stimulates its authors to make the research data on which their publications are based available in open sustainable data repositories. From now…
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In 2015 the Japanese Government launched ‘Towards Open Science Policy in Japan’, a programme on Open Science. At present Open Science is fostered mainly at a political level but other stakeholders are becoming involved as well. In 2013 the Japan Science and Technology Agency adopted an open access policy at a recommended level. In 2015…
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