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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The LIBER Office would like to wish all LIBER libraries, the wider library and cultural heritage community, a wonderful holiday season. Our office will be close for two weeks on 22 December 2014 and will reopen on 5 January 2015. During the Christmas break, please don’t forget to consider submitting a paper or poster proposal…
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Library directors are invited to join LIBER in Paris, May 2015, for the Leadership Journées Programme. The Programme will be held at Sciences Po from 20-22 May, 2015. It is designed for 20 Library Directors who are already in leadership positions in their institutions, and who are looking ahead at delivering strategic change as libraries as…
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The Europeana Newspapers project, in which LIBER is a partner, has taken newspaper content from libraries in 23 European countries and made them searchable via a historic newspaper browser. “For the first time in history we have the opportunity to do transnational comparative research on the basis of big data!“ says Toine Pieters, digital humanities…
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Eva Dahlbäck (@KreativaEva) is Librarian and Acting Head of Customer Services at Stockholm University Library. In this guest post, she explains how Stockholm University Library recently developed the Viola system to collect books more efficiently from the closed stacks. Eva also presented about Viola at LIBER 2014, and her talk was the most highly rated…
DetailsLIBER sends a Mailing to all LIBER libraries four times a year, in March, May, August and November. Traditionally these Mailings were only accessible to members but from today, we’re making them publicly available on the website. You can read the November 2014 Mailing here and a list of all Mailings will be kept on this page. In…
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