The Europeana Newspapers project is undertaking a survey of available digitised newspapers in Europe, aimed at institutions that are not currently part of the project The Europeana Newspapers project survey has three purposes: 1) To get a clear idea of the extent of newspaper digitisation within Europe 2) To record the relevant metadata in…
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DART-Europe now gives access to over 300,000 full-text research theses from 424 Universities in 23 European countries. The DART-Europe E-theses Portal, hosted by UCL Library Services in association with LIBER, is a metadata aggregation that aims to provide one-stop access to Europe’s open access research-level theses. DART-Europe now gives access to over 300,000 full-text research…
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This Blog posting reports on the PEER End of Project Conference in Brussels on 29 May 2012. On 29 May 2012, I attended the PEER End of Project Conference at http://www.peerproject.eu/peer-end-of-project-conference-29th-may-2012/. PEER was a project funded by the EU to look at the impact on commercially-published journals of deposit of the same material in Green Open…
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The historical first LIBER Blog post from Dr Paul Ayris, President of LIBER. It is my great pleasure to welcome all Conference guests to the 41st Annual LIBER Conference in Tartu, Estonia, which is taking place between 27 and 30 June 2012. LIBER: Visibility, Communication and Advocacy 2011-12 has been one of LIBER’s most successful…
DetailsLIBER Members are welcome to post their comments on the Draft LIBER Strategy 2013-2015, which is available within the LIBER Intranet environment. All comments will be taken into consideration in finalizing the new LIBER Strategy. Direct link to the draft LIBER Strategy: http://libereurope.eu/openatrium/liber-members-private/node/505 If you experience any difficulties in accessing this LIBER Intranet…
DetailsDue to the implementation of the new functions, the LIBER website will be temporarily unavailable on Monday 4 June 2012 morning. The LIBER Office would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. The LIBER Office would like to inform the LIBER members on the upcoming changes of the LIBER website, which will be…
DetailsWe are pleased to invite you to the Final Conference of the Europeana Regia project which will be held on Thursday 31st May 2012, from 2 pm to 6 pm, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Colbert Auditorium – 2, rue Vivienne 75002 PARIS. Since 2010, the Europeana Regia project has drawn together three royal…
DetailsWhile the final deadline for registration is approaching fast, we take great pleasure in announcing that more than 300 colleagues will be attending the upcoming LIBER Conference in Tartu, Estonia. A recent list of registered participants has now been added to the conference website, so that interested people can check whom they could meet…
DetailsAs President of LIBER, I am delighted to announce that the LIBER journal LIBER Quarterly has become an Open Access, peer reviewed journal, running under the OJS software. The first issue of volume 22 of LIBER Quarterly has been put on-line by our publisher Igitur, with two important modifications: The look is different, since the…
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Looking to the future: how do we place our service at the heart of Europe’s research communities? is the theme of this joint meeting in Bucharest. Sessions will be streamed live from the event on the day. On Monday afternoon from 2.30-2.40 PM Eastern European time, watch the keynote speech from Heike Neuroth of Gottingen…
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Read a full account of the workshop in summaries, photographs and comments in seven blog posts & more! For all those who did not manage to attend last week’s LIBER workshop “Partnering for digital curation” – and also for those who did: A full account of the workshop in summaries, photographs and comments in…
DetailsWith Jeanette Frey (Switzerland), I attended the 2nd LIBER Digital Preservation Workshop in Florence, 7-8 May. We had 80 attenders and good audience participation. A great success for LIBER, who are seen to be leading discussions in Europe in this space. Day 1Liz Lyon has challenged LIBER to lead a pan-European Working Grouping Group to…
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