Despite its potentially inauspicious title, the Europeana Cloud kick-off took place over 2 sunny and cloud free days in The Hague. On the 3rd of March project participants representing libraries, research infrastructures, developers, publishers and researchers gathered to discuss, workshop, brainstorm and network. Europeana Executive Director, Jill Cousins, opened the meeting by introducing the Europeana…
DetailsOn 1 March 2013, CERL and the VZG launched the Heritage of the Printed Book database in its new environment at VZG, with newly converted and cleaned-up data. At its new host, the HPB continues to offer simple, advanced and command line search. This is now complemented by several specific indexes, optimised for the retrieval…
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The second press release of the Europeana Newspapers Project informs about the results of the survey on the extent of newspaper digitization in European libraries and announces the names of 11 libraries that were invited to become the projects’ associated partners. The Europeana Newspapers Project informs about the results of the survey on the extent…
DetailsLIBER is very pleased to announce the launch of its new Leadership Programme. This new LIBER Director’s Programme will focus on the empowerment of current leaders as key figures in the process of reshaping the research libraries. A key strategic priority for LIBER is to support its members in their efforts to reshape their research…
DetailsIzaskun Lacunza talks about LIBER mission and new Strategy 2013-2015 in the March 2013 issue of ‘Insights’
You can read the full interview here
The MedOANet European Workshop and Open Aire plus interoperability Workshop were combined in the Open Access seminar hosted by UMinho in Braga, Portugal. The MedOANet sessions received inspiring feedback from stakeholders of research institutions, funding bodies, copyright experts and publishers that called for policy alignment, coordination and strong advocacy. The MedOANet sessions started off with…
DetailsLetter from participants in response to “Licences for Europe- A Stakeholder Dialogue” text and data mining for scientific research purposes workshop. The following is the letter sent by concerned participants in response to the “Licences for Europe- A Stakeholder Dialogue” workshop on text and data mining for scientific research purposes. Dear Commissioners Barnier, Geoghegan-Quinn, Kroes…
DetailsProgram details, registration and the call for posters are now available in OAI8 website. OAI8, the 8th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from Wednesday 19th to Friday 21st June 2013. Program details, registration and the call for posters are now available at https://indico.cern.ch/event/oai8. It will be possible to…
DetailsFor LIBER members the deadline for early registration is 30 April 2013. The the deadline for registration is 13 June 2013. The deadline for LIBER members for early registration is 30 April 2013. The the deadline for registration is 13 June 2013. You can start your registration here. This year, the number of conference participants…
DetailsThe MedOANet European Workshop took place at the University of Minho, Braga – Portugal, on the 6th February, 2013, included in a larger event, the UMinho Open Access Seminar, which brought together the MedOANet European Workshop and theOpenAIREInteroperability Workshop, offering also public sessions on Open Access policies, open science, data repositories, interoperability and research infrastructures.…
DetailsOAI8, the 8th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from Wednesday 19th to Friday 21st June 2013. The workshop will follow the successful format of previous sessions mixing practical tutorials, presentations from cutting-edge projects and research, discussion groups, posters, and an intense social programme to maximise interaction and communication.…
DetailsLIBER is happy to announce the launch of the second LIBER international leadership development programme. The second LIBER international leadership development programme will be launched with a high level seminar for the next generation of senior leaders in European Research libraries. The LIBER leadership programme is aimed at “emerging leaders”, people who are already in…
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