In December 2014, Stockholm University Library decided to implement the free and open source library system Koha as the circulation module in a larger system architecture for printed material. The goal is to have Koha up and running by late 2015. This guest post from Andreas Hedström Mace, a librarian and project manager working at…
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The FOSTER project is a 2-year, FP7-funded initiative to facilitate training for Open Access and Open Science in the European research community. One of the key outputs from the project’s partners will be a training portal, gathering existing resources into a single online hub, and organising them into curricula and courses for the benefit of…
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Don MacMillan is Liaison Librarian for Biological Sciences, Math, Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics at the University of Calgary’s Taylor Family Digital Library. In this guest post, he highlights how he helped students to develop better information literacy with regards to several bioinformatics sources and offers tips for librarians wishing to do the same in their…
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LIBER is pleased to announce that Melanie Imming has been appointed EU Projects Manager. Melanie first joined LIBER on a temporary basis in October 2014 and will now become a permanent member of the LIBER team. Working as a Senior Project Manager at the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) for the last six years,…
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Members of the LIBER Executive Board gathered in Helsinki for their first Executive Board meeting of 2015. At the meeting, which took place on 19 and 20 February, the Board discussed LIBER advocacy for copyright reform, extending and refining the LIBER Strategy beyond 2015, and the LIBER work programme for 2015. In addition to the…
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Launching in Spring 2015, a pilot aimed at stimulating publishing in Open Access journals in Europe will provide funding to cover all or part of the costs of post-grant open access publishing arising from projects funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The pilot forms part of the EU-funded OpenAIRE2020 project. The Pilot Opportunities for…
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On 19 February former LIBER President Paul Ayris attended, at the request of current LIBER President Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, a high-level meeting with European Commissioner Oettinger in Brussels on copyright reform — arguing the case of a mandatory pan-European Exception for Text and Data Mining, which could not be overridden by contracts. The text of Dr Ayris’s…
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This year LIBER is to launch the third edition of its acclaimed international Leadership Development Programme, a high-level seminar for the next generation of senior leaders in European Research libraries. The programme will begin with a 2-1/2 day seminar from 21-23 June, 2015 — just before LIBER’s 2015 Annual Conference in London, UK It features…
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LIBER has been invited to attend a series of high-level round-table discussions on EU copyright. In my capacity as the President of LIBER I attended a meeting focusing on Text and Data Mining (TDM) and chaired by Commissioner Oettinger in Brussels in early February 2015. LIBER´s main message at the meeting was: “We are advocating…
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Pablo de Castro has joined LIBER as our new Open Access Project Officer and will be leading the OpenAIRE2020 Gold Open Access Pilot. Until very recently, Pablo worked on research information workflows and management systems at GrandIR Ltd in Edinburgh, building on the previous work carried out for the UK RepositoryNet+ Project at EDINA National…
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