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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsMy 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…
DetailsRecently 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…
DetailsLIBER 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…
DetailsAt 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.
In this eventful week for Open Access the MedOANet project had its first partner Workshop, hosted by FECYT, (the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) on the 16th of July 2012 in Madrid. MedAONet partner workshop The Hague, July 19th 2012 In this eventful week for Open Access the MedOANet project had its first…
DetailsThe Mediterranean Open Access Network Project welcomes and supports the European Commission’s Communication “Towards better access to scientific information” and the Recommendation to Member States on “access to and preservation of scientific information”. Athens, July 18, 2012 The Mediterranean Open Access Network Project (MedOANet; www.medoanet.eu) welcomes and supports the European Commission’s Communication “Towards betteraccess to…
DetailsToday Commissioner Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission, has issued a strong statement backing Open Access to research outputs funded by the European taxpayer. Following in the steps of the Finch Report in the UK, the new statement on Open Access policy from Research Councils UK (RCUK), and the UK’s Royal Society Report on…
DetailsThe Russell Group of research-intensive universities in the UK has welcomed in general terms the Royal Society’s Report on Open Data at http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/russell-group-latest-news/151-2012/5300-royal-society-report-on-open-science/. The Royal Society Report marks a watershed in the UK’s response to the challenges and opportunities of Open Data. The Report notes, nonetheless, that universities have commercial ambitions and these should…
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