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“Licences for Europe – A Stakeholder Dialogue” text and data mining for scientific research purposes working group

Letter 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…

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February 26, 2013 Leave a commentAdvocacy and Communications, NewsBy LIBER Europe

OAI8 opens the call for posters

Program 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…

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February 19, 2013 Leave a commentNewsBy LIBER Europe

Registration for the 42nd LIBER Annual Conference is now open!

For 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…

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February 15, 2013 Leave a commentNewsBy LIBER Europe

The MedOANet European Workshop

The 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.…

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February 14, 2013 Leave a commentNewsBy LIBER Europe

OAI8 is now open for registration

OAI8, 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.…

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February 8, 2013 Leave a commentNewsBy LIBER Europe

Emerging leaders International development programme for the leaders of tomorrow’s libraries

LIBER 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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January 8, 2013 Leave a commentNews, Reshaping the Research LibraryBy LIBER Europe

TERENA and LIBER collaborate on Scientific Data Infrastructure preparatory study

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.…

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December 19, 2012 Leave a commentNewsBy LIBER Europe

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2013!

The LIBER Office will be closed during the Christmas and New Year’s period, from 22/12 until 6/1. On behalf of the LIBER Executive Board and the LIBER Office, we wish you and your colleagues a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2013!

December 14, 2012 Leave a commentNewsBy LIBER Europe

LERU launches statements on Open Access and Open Data

14 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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December 14, 2012 Leave a commentNews, Scholarly Communication and Research InfrastructuresBy Paul Ayris

Release of the MedOANet Open Access Tracker

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…

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December 11, 2012 Leave a commentNewsBy LIBER Europe

More than one million pages of newspapers within reach of a click for free

An 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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December 10, 2012 Leave a commentNewsBy Jeannette Frey

Job opportunity: Communications & Marketing Officer

Are you innovative and flexible, and would you like to work for an international library organisation? Do you have experience with communications and social media? Are you aware of recent developments in the library sector? Do you have a good oral and written knowledge of English? Do you have a talent for working with stakeholders…

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November 25, 2012 Leave a commentNewsBy LIBER Europe