LIBER’s Linked Open Data Working Group aims to paint a picture of the current state of Linked Open Data (LOD) among European research libraries and to provide insights which help research libraries to develop their LOD activities. The group recently completed a review of practices which research libraries follow in making data linked and open.…
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Research libraries have an essential role to play in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC): as channels for knowledge and data, as promotors of the new portal and as providers of training. The critical role of libraries in the EOSC will be discussed in two meetings today between LIBER and European Commission officials. The meetings…
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The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) is calling on the international scholarly community to support three vetted and vital open infrastructure services. The services are: The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), a digital directory of peer reviewed Open Access books and Open Access book publishers; and Open Access Publishing in European…
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NOTE: This position is now filled. Please see our Jobs page or follow @libereurope to learn about future opportunities. LIBER is Europe’s largest research library network. We help our university, national and special libraries to support world-class research. Founded in 1971 and based in The Hague, LIBER is involved in a range of funded projects…
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Today LIBER and Communia are releasing detailed guidelines on the implementation of the Digital Single Market Directive. LIBER has specifically worked to develop the guidance related to text and data mining, as covered in Articles 3 and 4 of the Directive. The LIBER-Communia guidelines come in addition to detailed library guidelines on the Digital Single…
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With 2020 just around the corner, we want to reflect on the achievements of this year and highlight what we’ll deliver in the months ahead. In 2019, we fulfilled our mission of enabling world-class research and worked towards our strategic goal of Powering Sustainable Knowledge in the Digital Age in many ways. We celebrated in…
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Thank you to everyone who participated in our feedback survey for LIBER’s 2019 Annual Conference in Dublin, Ireland. The main findings are presented here. We’ll use your feedback to improve LIBER 2020 in Belgrade, Serbia on 24-26 June 2020 at the University of Belgrade. Presentations and recordings from LIBER 2019 can be found here. Key findings…
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Are you working in a LIBER library? Would you like to help develop a library policy for federated authentication which protects user privacy and grants access from any location, while still offering libraries and publishers enough scope to control access as needed? If so, please consider joining LIBER’s newest Working Group: FIM4L (Federated Identity Management…
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As Europe’s largest association of research libraries, LIBER backs Open Access and wants it to become the main form of Scholarly Communication in 2022. We acknowledge that this goal cannot be achieved without the robust and viable support of certain key infrastructures. LIBER is therefore collaborating with SCOSS (the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science…
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Articles 8-11 of the Digital Single Market Directive introduce a ‘hybrid exception’ to copyright. The exception allows libraries and other cultural heritage institutions to digitise and place their published and unpublished out-of-commerce (OOC) works online — once these works have been ‘advertised’ for at least six months on the EU Intellectual Property Office’s website, in…
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The Call for Papers for LIBER’s 2020 Annual Conference in Belgrade from 24 to 26 June, is now open. The deadline for submitting a proposal is 13 January 2020. Guidance and conference topics are outlined in detail below. For more information about the conference, please see the LIBER 2020 website. Building Trust With Research Libraries “In the nonstop…
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We are very happy to share the launch of the Open a GLAM Lab book: a freely-available publication which shares the experiences of 16 global ‘Labbers’ from across the globe. It introduces readers to everything they need to know about setting up, maintaining and innovating a GLAM (Gallery, Library, Archive and Museum) organisation through a…
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