The Dutch government is strongly in favour of Open Access and aims for the Netherlands to be 100% Open Access by 2024. A road for Open Access was started in 2013 by Sander Dekker, State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, who expressed his support for open access to scientific publications. A gold OA route was chosen.…
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Last week, LIBER hosted UK MEP Catherine Stihler at our ‘Meet the Libraries’ day at the National Library of The Netherlands. Catherine Stihler is a passionate advocate for libraries, regularly speaking out for her political group on the issues of copyright, accessibility and content mining. Bridging the policy and research community, Catherine is Vice Chair of…
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Find out more about LIBER and our 2015 achievements in this infographic. In just 12 months, we launched the Hague Declaration, held two Leadership Seminars, met 19 European Commission and Parliament Officials in our quest to help shape a copyright exception for Text and Data Mining, and worked on 11 projects funded by the European Commission.…
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Open Science is strongly supported by LIBER, and we’ll be at the heart of the Open Science scene in April as co-organisers of four Open Science World Cafés at Day Two of the prestigious Dutch Presidency Open Science Conference in Amsterdam. Representatives from four European Funded projects in which LIBER participates will help coordinate the discussions on…
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The LIBER Executive Board held its first meeting of the year in Patras in Greece on the 25th and 26th of February. LIBER Strategy 2018-22 At the meeting, Board members took the first steps towards developing the LIBER Strategy for 2018-22. Over the course of the two-day meeting, the Board brainstormed and discussed the environmental…
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LIBER’s Annual Conference is one of Europe’s biggest gatherings of library professionals, and we want to encourage librarians from across Europe to attend. That’s why we offer the Annual Conference Fund allows potential delegates from a number of countries to apply for free conference registration and a €500 grant towards travel costs. For 2016, participants…
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Registration is now open for this year’s Annual Conference, to be held in Helsinki, Finland from 29 June to 1 July. As the main network for research libraries in Europe, our Annual Conference is one of the most important yearly gatherings for research library professionals to network and share information and ideas with one another. Early-bird registration…
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Think. Check. Submit. – the cross-industry campaign that helps educate researchers about the criteria they should look for when selecting where to publish their work – has today made available a new video that highlights some of the key questions that researchers should ask when assessing a journal. The video accompanies downloadable posters and the…
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LIBER Quarterly has, until now, published papers in two categories: regular (scientific) ‘articles’ and ‘reviews’. The Editorial Board has now also opened its pages for the category of ‘case studies’. In this way we expect to receive interesting contributions about local library initiatives. In order to safeguard the scientific quality of academic papers, the Board…
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The last year was a busy one for LIBER. Apart from our increased activities in European Projects, we enjoyed an extremely successful Annual Conference in London (we’re already planning the 2016 conference in Helsinki) and welcomed a new member of the Executive Board, Ms Anja Smit, together with a number of new colleagues at the office in The…
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Readers of LIBER’s academic journal LIBER Quarterly may already have discovered its new layout, which has been realised thanks to the collaboration between our host Uopen (formerly Igitur) at the University of Utrecht and Ubiquity Press. In addition to a modern look, the website boasts a number of new features: Article level metrics, where the…
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New library systems are being launched, which will deeply affect how libraries carry out their core procedures and tasks. They include the upcoming cloud-based systems of the world‘s largest suppliers Ex Libris and OCLC, and Open Source systems under construction (e.g. Kuali OLE, KoHa). Libraries in countries across Europe and the United Kingdom are moving to…
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