Martine Oudenhoven has joined the LIBER team as our new Community Engagement Officer. She will work on stakeholder-engagement related activities for EU-projects, primarily for OpenMinTeD and AARC. Martine has a background in communication and an MSc in Biology. Before joining LIBER, she worked as communications advisor for Leiden University Medical Center and the Faculty of…
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The LIBER Executive Board meeting in autumn 2016 was hosted by Stockholm University Library, at their university campus on 19-20 October. The finalisation of our 2018-22 Strategic Framework elicited intense discussion amongst the Board members. It has been one year since the Board first began to work on drafting the next LIBER Strategy; a process…
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Transforming Research Libraries: The Leadership Challenge. That is the title of LIBER’s second Leadership Journées Programme, exclusively for Library Directors and set to take place in May 2017. The programme will take place from 17-19 May at Sciences Po, in the heart of Paris. The Paris Institute of Political Studies is ideally located on the Left…
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The European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) has just published its first report and recommendations. It calls for immediate action to build the EOSC, in close collaboration with Member states. “The challenge is clear to us: if we do not act, there might be a looming crisis on…
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Copyright law is complex. That’s why our Copyright Working Group has just published a basic guide to Limitations and Exceptions in EU Copyright Law for Libraries, Educational and Research Establishments. The freely downloadable document is an introductory guide to copyright law as it relates to schools, universities, their libraries, national libraries, and public libraries. Limitations and…
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Anyone who’s attended a LIBER conference may have wondered why LIBER does not publish conference proceedings. Some talks from the conferences have always been written down as papers, and later published in LIBER Quarterly, but these were spread over the various volumes and issues of the journal, and never covered all conference contributions. It is…
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Almost all of Europe’s academic research libraries are working collaboratively, within and outside of their institutions, to help ensure that the scientific data of today is curated properly, so it can be accessed, shared and reused by future generations. That is one conclusion from a recent survey on Research Data Services (RDS), carried out by a…
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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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Here in the LIBER Office, we’re looking at ways to make our website better. Over the coming months, we want to make it easier for you to find relevant content. That’s why we need your feedback. Please let us know what you think by taking a short survey. It should only take about 5 minutes to…
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The European Commission recently published its long-awaited proposal for copyright reform. LIBER released its own reaction to the proposal, and signed the following statement along with EBLIDA, Public Libraries 2020, IFLA and Europeana (download the statement in PDF format): Libraries and cultural heritage institutions have long empowered people to learn, innovate and be inspired, without…
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Today (14 September 2016) the European Commission released its long awaited draft proposals for a Directive on Copyright and the Digital Single Market. LIBER has released a statement in response to this development outlining the need to go further to ensure that legal certainty is achieved. A well-functioning and competitive market for research and innovation;…
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LIBER recently established a Metrics Working Group, within the remit of the Scholarly Communication and Research Infrastructures Steering Committee. The members of the Working Group stem from a variety of research libraries and research institutions and are all considered experts in the field having extensively worked with or studied traditional as well as alternative (i.e.…
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