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…
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The 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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Submissions are now open for the 2014 iConference: an annual gathering of a scholars and researchers from around the world who share a common concern about critical information issues. The conference will run from March 4-7th in Berlin, Germany and will focus on the theme ‘Breaking Down Walls: Culture-Context-Computing’. It will look at how today’s forms…
DetailsAfter more than a week of intense debate, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) formally adopted a ‘Treaty to Improve Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or otherwise Print Disabled’. The treaty was finalised in late June. It addresses a so-called “book famine” for print-disabled people by clearning the way…
DetailsThe future role of libraries was examined from many different angles at LIBER’s 42nd annual conference in Munich. Trends in research data management, current EU projects and crowdsourcing were some of the many topics discussed during the 3-day meeting, held at the end of June. “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around…
DetailsThrough a series of presentations, the participants were introduced to the work of Europeana Newspapers and learned about best-practice techniques related to the refinement and enrichment of digital newspapers. The workshop was based around three types of activities: Presentations of the project’s activities, aimed at sharing best-practice techniques. Buzz Groups, where participants could discuss the…
DetailsThe European Commission is developing an Open Data Pilot. This pilot will look at research data generated in projects funded under the Horizon 2020 framework, with the aim of stimulating the data-sharing culture among researchers and facilitating both the re-use of information and data-driven science. As organisations with a strong interest in Open Data, OpenAIRE,…
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