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3 new EU countries join DART-Europe portal

LIBER is pleased to announce that Open Access research theses from a further 3 EU member States are now available via the DART-Europe portal: Bulgaria – New Bulgarian University; see http://www.dart-europe.eu/browse-list.php?country=Bulgaria Latvia – – University of Latvia; see http://www.dart-europe.eu/browse-list.php?country=Latvia Slovenia – University of Maribor; see http://www.dart-europe.eu/browse-list.php?country=Slovenia DART-Europe now provides access to 324,308 Open Access…

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September 16, 2012 Leave a commentNews, Scholarly Communication and Research InfrastructuresBy LIBER Europe

Scientists, Foundations, Libraries, Universities, and Advocates Unite and Issue New Recommendations to Make Research Freely Available to All Online

10 years on, leaders from the Open Access movement unite to draft new Budapest Open Access Initiative recommendations WASHINGTON — In response to the growing demand to make research free and available to anyone with a computer and an internet connection, a diverse coalition today issued new guidelines (<defanghtml_span title=”blocked::http://www.soros.org/openaccess/boai-10-recommendations”>http://www.soros.org/openaccess/boai-10-recommendations) that could usher in huge advances in the sciences, medicine, and health.…

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September 13, 2012 Leave a commentNews, Scholarly Communication and Research InfrastructuresBy LIBER Europe

LIBER makes submission to MEPs on Open Access

On 9 September 2012, LIBER sent a formal letter to members of ITRE, the Industry, Research and Energy Committee of the European Parliament. It is feared that MEPs may not be supportive of Open Access and Open Data approaches to the dissemination of scholarship in the forthcoming Horizon 2020 programme. The LIBER letter sets out…

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September 10, 2012 Leave a commentAdvocacy and Communications, NewsBy LIBER Europe

Thinking the unthinkable: a library without a catalogue — Reconsidering the future of discovery tools for Utrecht University library

Read a very interesting piece from Simone Kortekaas (Utrecht University Library) – a summary of the author’s presentation at the LIBER General Annual Conference 2012. Like every other library, we at Utrecht University Library have always offered our users a catalogue. In 2002 we built our own discovery tool specifically designed for electronic journal…

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September 4, 2012 6 CommentsNews, Scholarly Communication and Research InfrastructuresBy Simone Kortekaas

Europeana Search API – allow your users remote access to Europeana’s repository

LIBER Members are encouraged to implement the Europeana Search API, in order to enrich their digital collections by giving access to over 23 million digital objects from Europe’s libraries, museums and archives. What is the Europeana Search API? It’s simply an interface that allows remote access to Europeana’s repository of digitised cultural heritage. It is…

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September 3, 2012 Leave a commentNewsBy LIBER Europe

Ten recommendations for libraries to get started with research data management

The LIBER E-Science working group has published its final report on research data management. LIBER installed the ‘E-Science working group’ in 2010 to investigate the role libraries can and should play in the field of E-Science. The group decided to focus on research data as it was felt to be the most urgent element of…

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August 24, 2012 2 CommentsNews, Scholarly Communication and Research InfrastructuresBy LIBER Europe

Over 80% of LIBER libraries experiencing demand for support in data management

The results of the ODE LIBER survey on libraries and their role in data exchange are now available. Two new reports from the Opportunities for Data Exchange(ODE) have been published today. One is a report on Best Practices for Citability of Data and Evolving Roles in Scholarly Communication.This report explores developments in best practice…

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August 20, 2012 Leave a commentNewsBy LIBER Europe

Research libraries and data privacy

My recent attendance at the IFLA Congress in Helsinki has led me to contemplate both how data privacy affects libraries in terms of their role in facilitating access to information and also as part of their role in protecting the privacy of their patrons and in promoting an open society. More specifically it led me…

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August 17, 2012 Leave a commentNewsBy Susan Reilly

4th LIBER Collection Security Conference

The 4th LIBER Collection Security Conference will be held in the National Library of The Netherlands in The Hague on Friday 23rd November 2012. The conference will be organized by the National Library in co-operation with the National Archives. Detailed information will follow.

August 14, 2012 Leave a commentNewsBy LIBER Europe

Where is the opportunity for libraries in the Collaborative Data Infrastructure?

Recently I have been talking a lot about how libraries can offer support to researchers in data management. As part of the Opportunities for Data Exchange project, LIBER carried out a survey of research libraries to measure the perceived demand for such support. A sizable 81% of the respondent libraries reported that data management support was…

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July 24, 2012 Leave a commentNewsBy Susan Reilly

LIBER response to European Commission Communication and Recommendation

LIBER response to the Communication and the Recommendation to Member States on “access to and preservation of scientific information” Last week, the European Commission published the Communication and the Recommendation to Member States on “access to and preservation of scientific information”. Both documents strongly support Open Access as a way of making the free circulation…

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July 24, 2012 Leave a commentAdvocacy and Communications, NewsBy LIBER Europe

Panning for gold?

Why Panning for gold may be detrimental to research disseminated in Open Access.

At http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/jul/23/finch-report-open-access-research, the Guardian newspaper has published an article showing how UCL (University College London) is assessing current developments in Open Access, concluding that the Gold route brings a number of challenges for Europe's research-intensive universities.

July 23, 2012 Leave a commentNews, Scholarly Communication and Research InfrastructuresBy Paul Ayris