From October 21-27th, the global academic and research community will come together to celebrate Open Access Week. Now in its sixth year, the event is an opportunity to share the potential benefits of Open Access and to inspire wider participation so that Open Access becomes a new norm in scholarship and research. Learn…
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On September 6th, the DART-Europe Board met in Senate House Library at the University of London. The DART-Europe portal makes available Open Access research theses from the libraries of LIBER members. As of today, there are 416,113 open access research theses from 541 Universities in 27 European countries available through the portal. The 2013 DART…
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LIBER is hosting a workshop on text and data mining on Friday the 27th of September. The workshop is intended as a follow-up to our joint response and subsequent withdrawal from the Licences for Europe workshop on text and data mining. It is intended as a means of initiating a broader discussion around text…
DetailsSucceed is a support action funded by the European Union. It promotes the take up and validation of research results in mass digitisation, with a focus on textual content. Succeed project is undertaking a survey on standards and formats used in digitisation of textual documents. Please take a moment to fill it in: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16qvPbAZYUVmYz1MbeCGVcfxy0UXksr3-v5QQ7h3uETE/viewform The…
DetailsOn September 16th the Europeana Newspapers Project is organising a workshop on Aggregation and Presentation at The European Library’s conference: Promoting innovation in Europe. In this workshop the Europeana Newspapers Browser will be presented and participants will get the chance to test it. Channa Veldhuijsen from the KB will talk about usability testing and will open the discussion…
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Do you need to write a business case for a digital preservation initiative? A new toolkit may help. It provides a step-by-step guide to the writing process, including templates, case studies and other resources. The Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit is freely available online. It was created by the Jisc funded SPRUCE project, with collaboration…
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This autumn, LIBER will take a fresh look at its website. We have several goals, and would like help from the LIBER community of libraries to build the best website possible for our members. Our goals are to: Improve the design and overall usability of the website; Examine the back-end technology (Drupal) and decide…
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Does your library have professors, researchers, students or other readers searching for which is hard to access, missing from your collections or can be read only on site? The eBooks On Demand (EOD) service, a collaboration between 36 European libraries, is one possible solution to this dilemma Members of the service aim to offer their public…
DetailsThe Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) are pleased to announce the launch of a Joint Task Force on Librarians’ Competencies in Support of E-Research and Scholarly Communication. Rapid changes in technology and associated…
DetailsResearchers, students, and librarians working in the fields of life and biomedical science are invited to test and give feedback on a new tool designed to help read scientific literature more easily and efficiently. The tool is a semantic Bookmarklet (currently in beta form) developed by AQnowledge. It can identify entities of significance in scientific…
DetailsAt LIBER’s 2013 conference, our steering committee on Scholarly Communication and Research Infrastructures held a workshop that looked at the current state of Open Access policies across Europe and offered strategies for getting started in Research Data Management (RDM). The first part of the session focused on New Horizons For Open Access Policies in Europe. It…
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Dr Paul Ayris, President of LIBER, reflects on the merits, challenges and problems with making data open, as discussed in two recent meetings in London and Brussels. “Maximising the use of public data – should research and publicly acquired data be made more accessible?” This was the title of a dinner debate which I…
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