This week the 4th plenary of Research Data Alliance took place in Amsterdam. Over 500 delegates came from across the globe to discuss all things research data related. Researchers, data scientists, IT and infrastructure professionals and providers, policy makers, funders, educators, and libraries are just some of the stakeholders that were represented amongst the participants.…
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FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research) is a 2-year, EU-Funded (FP7) project, carried out across 8 countries by 13 partners, including LIBER. The primary aim is to produce a Europe-wide training programme that will help researchers, postgraduate students, librarians and other stakeholders to incorporate Open Access approaches into their existing research methodologies and…
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Save the date! LIBER’s next Annual Conference will take place in London from 24 to 26 June, 2015. It will be hosted by Senate House Library, Imperial College Library, LSE Library and UCL Library Services. The 2015 Conference website will be available in October 2014. In the meantime, this promotional video gives a sneak preview…
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On 29 August, the National Library of Latvia — home of the LIBER 2014 Annual Conference — was officially opened. An impressive list of VIP guests formally addressed the Opening Ceremony in the Concert Hall. They included the President of the Republic of Latvia, Mr Andris Bērziņš; Her Royal Highness Princess Petra Laurentien of the Netherlands, Princess of…
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LIBER and IFLA, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The two organisations share objectives in promoting access to knowledge for education, learning, and research. Significant areas of common interest in the fields of copyright frameworks supporting the mission of libraries and the extension of library and research activities…
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LIBER has joined with a group of 58 signatories representing research institutions, civil society and publishers in calling on STM to withdraw their new model licences. In an open letter the group expressed their shared concern that these licences “would limit the use, reuse and exploitation of research. They would make it difficult, confusing or…
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By Wiebke van Ekeris, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg As a newcomer to the fields of research data management and data curation, I attended my first LIBER workshop in Vienna. And I really enjoyed it! When I travelled back to my working place, which is the University Library of Freiburg in southern Germany, I had lots of impressions (both of…
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In 2015, LIBER launched the third round of its international leadership development programme. This highly successful seminar is aimed at the next generation of leaders in European Research libraries. The Leadership Seminar programme is designed for people who are already in management positions in libraries and who wish to enhance their leadership qualities in preparation…
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At the beginning of July, LIBER and 17 other research and library organisations across Europe called on Elsevier to withdraw its current policy on text and data mining (TDM). The number of signatories to the letter now totals 38 organisations, plus individual researchers, professors and librarians. All signatories are listed in the third release of our letter. The…
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This year’s annual LIBER Conference took place in Riga, at the newly opened National Library of Latvia. In addition to dozens of papers from members of the research library communities of Europe (and sometimes beyond), there was a series of keynote and plenary talks by invited speakers, to set the tone for, or reflect upon…
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On 16 July 2014, LIBER sent its new Adviser on EU matters and Horizon 2020 to Brussels. In making the trip, I represented both LIBER and LERU (League of European Research Universities). A busy day saw visits to three Directorates General – DG Connect, DG Research and DG Enterprise & Industry. A principal topic of…
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