APARSEN has released a report on trust in digital preservation, which presents a European framework for audit and certification of digital repositories. Trust is fundamental to the working of society – in particular when it comes to unfamiliar digitally encoded information, especially when it has passed through several hands over a long period of time. Has it been preserved properly? Is…
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LIBER presents another blog post (by Caren Milloy, Head of Projects, JISC Collections, UK) from the series based on contributions from the LIBER Annual Conference 2012. Introduction The primary role of JISC Collections is the licensing of content on behalf of its UK Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE) member organisations. Over…
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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…
Details10 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.…
DetailsOn 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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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…
DetailsLIBER 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…
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