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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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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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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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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Joris van Eijnatten is professor of cultural history at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He has a fascination for numbers that not many historians have. Last year he was the research fellow for digital humanities at the National Library of The Netherlands, where he applied text and data mining to study the image people have of Europe based on newspapers. I interviewed him about text and data mining in humanities, his work and his personal romance with numbers.
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Jasna, Slovakia, is mainly known for its beautiful mountains and ski slopes. But from the 3rd to the 5th of April, around 130 people from all over the world gathered here to talk about innovations in libraries in this digital age. The main topics were digital humanities and digital scholarship, open science, repositories and research data management.
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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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As part of LIBER’s work to advance Open Science, we are one of 25 stakeholders sitting on the European Commission’s high-level Expert Group to provide advice about the development and implementation of open science policies in Europe. The term of the OSPP is 2016–2018, and its work is organised around eight action areas that the European…
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LIBER would like to welcome Helena Lovegrove as our new Advocacy Adviser. She is taking over from our current Advocacy Officer, Helen Frew, who will shortly move to the Permits Foundation as their International Advocacy Adviser. Helena has been working in EU public affairs for the past 17 years as a consultant with the past…
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Would you like to attend LIBER 2017, and are you representing a LIBER library in one of the countries listed below? If so, please apply for the LIBER Annual Conference fund. We have 14 awards available, each worth €500 towards the cost of attending the Conference. Colleagues at LIBER libraries in the following countries are…
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