The 21st EBLIDA NAPLE Conference 2013 Conference: ” Ready? Read ‘e’. E-services in Libraries, from European thinking to local Actions”, will be held in Milan on 15th May, 2013 Together with their NAPLE and AIB colleagues, EBLIDA has come up with an interesting programme (subject to minor changes) which you can now view at http://www.aib.it/attivita/eblida-2013/2013/31858-program-overview/.…
DetailsLetter from participants in response to “Licences for Europe- A Stakeholder Dialogue” text and data mining for scientific research purposes workshop. The following is the letter sent by concerned participants in response to the “Licences for Europe- A Stakeholder Dialogue” workshop on text and data mining for scientific research purposes. Dear Commissioners Barnier, Geoghegan-Quinn, Kroes…
DetailsProgram details, registration and the call for posters are now available in OAI8 website. OAI8, the 8th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from Wednesday 19th to Friday 21st June 2013. Program details, registration and the call for posters are now available at https://indico.cern.ch/event/oai8. It will be possible to…
DetailsFor LIBER members the deadline for early registration is 30 April 2013. The the deadline for registration is 13 June 2013. The deadline for LIBER members for early registration is 30 April 2013. The the deadline for registration is 13 June 2013. You can start your registration here. This year, the number of conference participants…
DetailsThe MedOANet European Workshop took place at the University of Minho, Braga – Portugal, on the 6th February, 2013, included in a larger event, the UMinho Open Access Seminar, which brought together the MedOANet European Workshop and theOpenAIREInteroperability Workshop, offering also public sessions on Open Access policies, open science, data repositories, interoperability and research infrastructures.…
DetailsOAI8, the 8th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from Wednesday 19th to Friday 21st June 2013. The workshop will follow the successful format of previous sessions mixing practical tutorials, presentations from cutting-edge projects and research, discussion groups, posters, and an intense social programme to maximise interaction and communication.…
DetailsLIBER is happy to announce the launch of the second LIBER international leadership development programme. The second LIBER international leadership development programme will be launched with a high level seminar for the next generation of senior leaders in European Research libraries. The LIBER leadership programme is aimed at “emerging leaders”, people who are already in…
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The result of a collaborative European study, involving research libraries and the research networking community, ‘Advancing technologies and federating communities’ has now been published. The final report from a European study that could pave the way to distributed and collaborative authentication, authorisation and accounting (AAA) for scientific data was published on 18 December 2012.…
Details14 December 2012 sees the launch of two statements from the League of European Research Universities on Open Access and Open Data – see http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/news/leru-launches-statements-on-open-access/. The 1-leaf fliers are concise statements, signed off by the LERU Rectors in their recent Assembly, which state the views of all LERU Universities on the importance of Open Access…
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The MedOANet project is pleased to announce the release of the Open Access Tracker. MedOANet (Mediterranean Open Access Network) is a two-year project funded under the Science in Society Programme of the EC 7th Framework Programme. The project enhances existing policies, strategies and structures for Open Access and contributes towards the implementation…
DetailsAn English version of the original French press release of the State and University Library – Lausanne Lausanne, December 7, 2012 The State and University Library Lausanne (BCU Lausanne) launched on December 7, 2012 the http://scriptorium.bcu-lausanne.ch, a platform for older editions of major newspapers of Swiss canton of Vaud. The first stage…
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