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…
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…
DetailsAre 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…
DetailsLIBER 42nd Annual Conference, Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany [26-29 June 2013] “Research Information Infrastructures and the Future Role of Libraries” DIRECT LINK: http://www.liber2013.de/index.php?id=40 The Programme Committee invites original presentations and posters on one or more of the following topics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Collection development (Digital collections) •…
DetailsAn opportunity for the LIBER members to get assistance with Out-of-Commerce Works Digitization projects LIBER is one of the signatories of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) setting out key principles on the digitisation and making available of Out-of-Commerce Works (OOC) by publicly accessible libraries and similar institutions in the European Union (read a summary…
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