Check the output of the conference, which includes PPTs, blog posts, pictures, videos & more! Presentations: You can find all the presentations within the conference programme (“see presentation” at respective authors). Some of them might be not available (as yet), on author’s special request Photos: The different photos from the conference can be found at…
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The 41st LIBER annual conference 2012 was officially opened by LIBER president Dr.Paul Ayris. Dr. Jaak Aaviksoo, minister of Education and Research of Estonia and Dr. Martin Halik, vice-rector for academic affairs at the University of Tartu each welcomed LIBER and the conference participants to Estonia and the University of Tartu. The ensemble of early…
DetailsThe Hague, 3rd July 2012 LIBER is delighted to announce that Dr Izaskun Lacunza has been appointed Executive Director of LIBER during the Annual LIBER Conference in Tartu. Dr. Lacunza is currently Head of Unit, Scientific Production and Open Access Promotion at FECYT (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology). This unit specializes in developing scientific…
DetailsThe Europeana Libraries workshop yesterday, 27th of June 2012, at the LIBER conference in Tartu certainly inspired the participants through their speakers and breakout sessions with colleague librarians to reflect on effective communication strategies for librarians. Zuzana Helsinki consultant and author of “A shortcut to marketing the library” dares librarians to be more aggressive in…
DetailsAccess 200 million trusted sources from libraries in 46 European countries. Research communities worldwide now have unrivalled online access to the collections of national and university libraries from 46 European countries following the launch of the new European Library portal. Providing a single point of access to over 200 million high quality sources, plus excellent search and retrieval…
DetailsThe 1st press release of the Europeana Newspapers project, where LIBER coordinates dissemination and exploitation, has just been published. The Hague, 26th of June 2012 Launch of the Europeana Newspapers project A group of 17 European partner institutions have joined forces in the “Europeana Newspapers” project to, over the next 3 years, provide more…
DetailsYou can find this important guest post within the following link:
http://poynder.blogspot.cz/2012/06/finch-report-in-global-open-access.html
After months of intensive preparations, University of Tartu Library is ready to welcome the participants of the LIBER 41st Annual Conference, which will take place next week on 27-30 June 2012 LIBER Office and the conference organisation team look forward to the participants of the 41st LIBER Annual Conference, taking place on 27-30 June 2012…
DetailsThe 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…
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