LIBER’s Executive Board recently met on 22, 23 and 25 June 2015 in Senate House Library, London, UK, for its meetings held during the Annual Conference week. At the meeting, the Board discussed the Annual Report and Accounts 2014, the European Activities, the LIBER Strategy, the reports of the LIBER Steering Committee, and LIBER partnerships…
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Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, who is currently Director of Library Network Services at the National Library of Finland was appointed as LIBER’s 11th President at LIBER 2014 Annual Conference. This followed her significant contributions to the development of LIBER during four years as Vice President. She has also been very active in other international networks such as…
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The Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration project, AARC, has started from 1 May 2015. A kick-off meeting for partners and interested members of the wider community was held in Amsterdam on 3-4 June 2015. For the next two years, AARC will bring together 20 partners including national research and education networking (NREN) organisations,…
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Hege van Dijke has joined the LIBER team as our new Communications & Events Officer. She will work on updating the website and our social media channels, and will take care of the publicity and the organisation of events. She will work in close collaboration with the LIBER projects officers, in order to communicate the work…
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On 18 May 2015, STM issued a press release in response to the publication of the Commission’s ‘Communication on Single Digital Market Strategy for Europe’. In this press release, STM addressed the Commission’s suggestion that an exception for text and data mining (TDM) should be introduced as part of the Commission’s ongoing work in updating…
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A Workshop on the OpenAIRE2020 FP7 post-grant Gold Open Access Pilot will be held on June 24th at the LIBER Annual Conference in London. This workshop will provide a key opportunity for the dissemination of this initiative, whose success will heavily rely on an effective outreach strategy towards eligible researchers and FP7 projects. The main…
DetailsLIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, has a mission to provide an information infrastructure to enable the research outputs of LIBER institutions to be world class. LIBER welcomes the European Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe as an important move to boost the Digital Economy in Europe to safeguard the future. The strategy contains several…
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More than 300 global organisations and individuals, including LIBER, have signed up to support The Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age. LIBER also led efforts to write the Declaration, which was launched last week in Brussels. It calls for immediate changes to intellectual property (IP) law and the removal of other barriers…
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Nils-Lennart Johannesson is Professor of English Linguistics at Stockholm University and has worked with language and research since the 1970s. Nils-Lennart is an advocate of Open Access and encourages other researchers to make their research more accessible. He is also the chair of the editorial board of Stockholm English Studies at Stockholm University Press (SUP).…
DetailsThe closing date for nominations has now passed. Appointments to the following vacancies will be made at the Meeting of Participants in Senate House Library, London, on Thursday 25 June 2015: (1) BOARD MEMBER The following (3) Executive Board members have completed terms of office. They are eligible for re-appointment for a further term of…
DetailsThe Editorial Board of LIBER Quarterly invites tenders for the hosting of the LIBER Quarterly open access journal. LIBER Quarterly is the journal of LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries). It aims at publishing high quality innovative OA peer-reviewed articles (theoretical and good practice) from specialists working in…
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