LIBER recently issued a call for nominations to its Executive Board. By the closing date for nominations (19 June 2014), the following people had been put forward. PRESIDENT Candidate: Ms Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, National Library of Finland, Helsinki, Finland. Proposer: Dr Paul Ayris, UCL, London, UK. VICE-PRESIDENT Candidate: Ms Jeannette Frey, BCU Lausanne, Switzerland. Proposer: Ms Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, National Library of Finland,…
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Note: Since the original publication of this letter, six Open Access publishers have joined our call. See the updated letter. LIBER and LERU (the League of European Research Universities) have released a letter which publicly states our opposition to the European Publishers Council’s EPC Copyright Vision Paper 2014: Copyright Enabled on the Network. The letter underlines our shared…
DetailsOn May 27, LIBER met with representatives of the Confederation of Australian University Libraries (CAUL), the Confederation of New Zealand University Libraries (CONZUL), and the International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions (IFLA). The delegation from CAUL and CONZUL is on a two-week European Study Tour, and requested a meeting to exchange ideas about common…
DetailsLIBER recently wrote to the Glasgow School of Art, to extend its sympathy at the news of the devastating fire. Professor Tom Inns Ms Alison Stevenson Glasgow School of Art 28 May 2014 Dear Tom and Alison LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) is devastated to hear of the serious damage to the…
DetailsLIBER welcomes the recent publication of figures showing UK university expenditure on Elsevier’s journal packages. The figures shine a light on a market that currently lacks transparency and expose the wide variation in prices being paid by UK universities. These variations cannot be rationally explained in the current market where universities are subscribing to very…
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LIBER is pleased to announce that Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and its 34 research library members have joined our network. The members of RLUK include the leading and most significant research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Their formal partnering with LIBER is a key part of RLUK’s aims to enable greater synergy and cooperation between…
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Dr. Paul Ayris, President of LIBER, reports on our recent Digital Curation Workshop in Vienna, Austria. LIBER held its 3rd Digital Curation Workshop in the University of Vienna on 19-20 May 2014, with 97 registered delegates. This Workshop was organised under the aegis of LIBER’s new Forum on Digital Cultural Heritage. The Programme can be…
DetailsLIBER recently wrote to the Turkish Library Association, to extend its sympathy at the news of the mining disaster in Soma. Mr. Ali Fuat Kartal President Turkish Library Association Dear Mr President On behalf of the Board of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries), I am writing to extend to you and to library…
DetailsLIBER has joined more than 50 library, archive and research institutions from countries across the European Union and internationally in signing a letter which asks the European Union to engage constructively in text-based discussions at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) on copyright exceptions for libraries and archives. The letter highlights the copyright challenges preventing international…
DetailsLIBER has signed a statement supporting immediate open access to research articles. The text of the statement is as follows: As organizations committed to the principle that access to information advances discovery, accelerates innovation and improves education, we endorse the policies and practices that enable Open Access – immediate, barrier free access to and reuse…
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Today, LIBER is pleased to present its new logo and a redesigned website. It’s the product of months of work by the LIBER Office, our Website Taskforce and the Advocacy & Communications Steering Committee. We’re proud of the result, and hope you also like it. Our goal is to make it easier for you to find,…
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Discussions by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) broke down in the early hours of Saturday morning May 3, 2014, after the European Union (EU) attempted to block future discussion of copyright laws to aid libraries and archives fulfill their missions in the digital environment. Library and…
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