As part of its Digital Single Market Strategy, released on 6 May 2015, the European Commission announced its intention to launch a European Cloud as a way of achieving the aim of maximising the growth potential of the digital economy. Since then, Commissioners Günther Oettinger and Carlos Moedas have elaborated on their plans to create…
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Today marks the anniversary of the Berlin Declaration. It has been twelve years since the creation of this ground-breaking document, which recognised that ‘in order to realise the vision of a global and accessible representation of knowledge, the future Web has to be sustainable, interactive, and transparent’. It signified an awakening to access to information…
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The final LIBER Executive Board meeting of 2015 took place in Barcelona on the 15th and 16th of October. CBUC kindly hosted the meeting at which the Executive Board looked back at LIBER activities in 2015 and looked forward to implementing a framework for activities over the next 2 years under the newly developed Strategic…
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This is International Open Access Week (19-25 October, 2015): the ideal moment for the LIBER office to highlight how we’re contributing to the development and promotion of Open Access. LIBER’s participation in the PASTEUR4OA project is one of our many OA-related activities. The main aim of the PASTEUR4OA project is to increase understanding and awareness of OA…
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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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