As part of our work to connect and represent research libraries in Europe, we initiate and participate in strategic and innovative European projects. In 2015 we joined six new projects. The LIBER office is buzzing with activity and an updated overview of all the EU projects in which LIBER is involved can now be found…
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The editorial boards of five prominent linguistics journals have announced that they are cutting ties with their publishers and instead will make their content freely available on a new website, LingOA. The press release below explains more about this initiative. Linguists to Publish Journal Articles in ‘Fair’ Open Access A group of leading international linguists are…
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Helping researchers to make informed publication choices A new cross-industry campaign launches today – Think. Check. Submit. The campaign will provide information for researchers, through an online hub at www.thinkchecksubmit.org, about the criteria they should look for when selecting where to publish their research. The volume of research output continues to grow, and recent years…
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On 14 September LIBER participated in the kick-off of the eagerly anticipated FutureTDM project. Why such excitement? FutureTDM represents an opportunity for stakeholders such as the research library community, to shape the content mining landscape in the EU. TDM potential The TDM in FutureTDM stands for Text and Data Mining. LIBER members will be keenly…
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Erroneous Claims Based on Scant Evidence: the PLS Survey on Text and Data Mining Recently the Publishers’ Licencing Society (PLS) released their interpretation of the results of a survey on text and data mining (TDM) [1] “to identify the number and types of requests publishers are receiving and how they are being dealt with”. Admitting…
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We are happy to announce that Helen Frew has joined the LIBER team as our new Advocacy Officer. Helen will work on European policy and advocacy, particularly in relation to text and data mining, copyright and open access. She will be the LIBER contact on the FutureTDM project which kicks-off this month. Helen…
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After 38 months of hard, but also very fun and rewarding work, the Europeana Newspapers project has officially come to a close in March 2015. LIBER was one of the proud participants in this project, leading Work Package 6 ‘Dissemination and Exploitation’. The Europeana Newspapers project has really pushed the state-of-the-art of newspaper digitisation and presentation…
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EU Project PASTEUR4OA published a report today called “Assessing Readiness for Open Access Policy Implementation across Europe“. The report, written by LIBER’s Open Access Officer Pablo de Castro, presents a European-wide case study for assessing EU Member State’s readiness for Open Access (OA) policy implementation – and specifically for the European Commission H2020 policy. Aspects like…
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Dear LIBER Participants, As you may have heard LIBER will be running a satisfaction survey later this year to find out from its participants what we do well, and where we can develop to continue to meet your needs in a challenging and demanding environment. In order to have the chance to put your thoughts…
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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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