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LIBER and OCLC Research Launch Collaborative Information Management Study

LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, and OCLC Research are launching a collaborative project to explore the adoption and integration of persistent identifiers (PIDs) in European research information management (RIM) infrastructures. The project will complement and extend previous research institution-scale implementations of RIM in European institutions. It will provide university and research library leaders with useful…

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June 13, 2017 Leave a commentHomepage, NewsBy LIBER Europe

Transforming Library Leadership: LIBER Journées 2017

From the perspective of the Chair of the LIBER Leadership and Workforce Development Working Group, the second LIBER Journées programme was a successful and enjoyable occasion. Nineteen Library Directors were present from 13 different countries. Seven eminent speakers from Europe, USA and Asia presented and many of them took part in the whole three-day event. The…

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June 13, 2017 Leave a commentBlog (opinion / personal view), Homepage, Leadership Programmes Working GroupBy LIBER Europe

LIBER Executive Board Appointments: 2017 Nominations Closing!

The closing date for nominations for appointments to the LIBER Executive Board at the Meeting of Participants in Patras is Thursday 22 June 2017. Appointments will take place at the LIBER 2017 Annual Conference later this month. Nominations are invited for two vacancies on the LIBER Executive Board. LIBER welcomes nominations from all parts of…

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June 9, 2017 Leave a commentNews, Office AnnouncementsBy LIBER Europe

On the role of a university library in the TDM landscape

25 years ago, when Laurents Sesink was still a history student, his thesis on political internal relations included a lot of reading and tally marks. Back then he already thought “There must be a better way to do this”, so he built a database and started to get into informatics and digitisation. Now he is…

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June 2, 2017 Leave a commentBlog (opinion / personal view), Projects, Text and Data MiningBy Martine Oudenhoven

Webinar Video: A Data Citation Roadmap for Scholarly Data Repositories

Our recent webinar, A Data Citation Roadmap for Scholarly Data Repositories, looked at a practical roadmap to help scholarly data repositories implement data citation in accordance with the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles.

A recording of the webinar is now available. Information about future webinars can be found on the LIBER website.

May 30, 2017 Leave a commentNews, Recordings, WebinarsBy LIBER Europe

Join FutureTDM’s Final Symposium on 13 June

The FutureTDM project, in which LIBER is a partner, will shortly hold its final event in Salzburg, Austria on 13 June. With EU copyright reform now in progress, this final Symposium will bring together policy makers and stakeholder groups to share FutureTDM’s findings, its first expert driven policy recommendations and practitioner guidelines to help increase…

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May 30, 2017 Leave a commentNews, ProjectsBy LIBER Europe

LIBER Signs Open Letter on EU Copyright Reform

LIBER has signed an open letter urging European lawmakers to put EU copyright reform back on track. The letter was sent to Ministers attending the Competitiveness Council, European Parliament Rapporteur MEP Therese Comodini Cachia and her colleagues. It has so far been backed by more than 60 civil society and trade associations, including publishers, journalists, libraries, scientific and research institutions,…

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May 30, 2017 Leave a commentHomepage, NewsBy LIBER Europe

LIBER / Helmholtz Webinar: Systems and Services – Adding Value For Research Data Assets

LIBER’s Working Group on Scientific Information Infrastructures is collaborating with Helmholtz to run two editions of an Open Science Webinar in June. Join us to hear how research institutions in Australia are maximising the value of their research data assets and for a discussion about how to create value from open data.

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May 23, 2017 Leave a commentNews, Previous Webinars, WebinarsBy LIBER Europe

Workshop on Challenging the Current Business Models in Academic Publishing

On April 26th and 27th the Workshop “Challenging the Current Business Models in Academic Publishing: Accelerators and Obstacles to the Open Access Transition” has been organised in Antwerp, Belgium by Science Europe in collaboration with LIBER and the European University Association. Aim of this Workshop was to bring together various experts to discuss and challenge…

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May 19, 2017 Leave a commentBlog (opinion / personal view), Homepage, NewsBy conference

Interview: Svend Larsen on the New Royal Danish Library

In 2016 the Danish government decided to merge the two biggest Danish research libraries: the Royal Library in Copenhagen and the State and University Library in Aarhus. This resulted in the creation of the new Royal Danish Library (RDL) which serves as Denmark’s national library, the university library for Aarhus University, Copenhagen University and Roskilde University,…

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May 11, 2017 Leave a commentBlog (opinion / personal view)By LIBER Europe

Workshop | Bridging the Gap Between Policy and Practice: How Do We Make Open the Default?

We are happy to announce and invite you to a workshop, jointly hosted by SPARC Europe and the LIBER Open Access Working Group. It will take place on 5 July at 9am, just before the official start of LIBER 2017 in Patras, Greece, and the aim will be to collect and discuss good practices and current…

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May 10, 2017 Leave a commentNewsBy conference

Final meeting of AARC project on federated access

The 5th AARC face-to-face meeting took place on the 20th-22nd of March 2017 in Athens, Greece. The meeting marked the end of the AARC project and the beginning of a new era: the AARC2 project. AARC2 will build on AARC’s outcomes and achievements. Basic pillars of the AARC Project The AARC project had one main…

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May 9, 2017 Leave a commentBlog (opinion / personal view), News, ProjectsBy Martine Oudenhoven