The member organisations of IARLA — LIBER, ARL, CARL, CAUL and RLUK — welcome moves towards an open access environment for journal articles and aligned funder policies to achieve this. We are therefore supportive of the overall objectives of Plan S as published by cOAlition S. We note the iterative nature of the Plan S Guidance…
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Founded in 1971 and based in The Hague, LIBER is Europe’s largest research library network. We help our university, national and special libraries to support world-class research. As part of a planned expansion, LIBER will launch new services and events in 2020. We are therefore looking for an experienced Events & Partnership Manager who can…
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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 addressing the barriers on the path towards Open Science. As our new Training Coordinator, you will take the lead…
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The webinars of this series on the Digital Single Market Directive have passed. We would like to thank to all who joined the webinars and hope that they will help you to get involved in national implementation of the new Directive. Slides and recordings from the webinars are available on Zenodo. Are you a librarian…
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Together with five other partners, LIBER has started working on a new project on open and citizen science in higher education. Funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme, the INOS project aims at modernizing Higher Education Institutions’ (HEIs) curricula through civic engagement in Open Science (OS) and Citizen Science (CS). In this project, LIBER is…
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How can we measure the state of openness of research? Why are responsible research indicators important? What role do institutional managers play in adopting them? Among others, these questions were discussed in this webinar hosted by Charlotte Wien, Head of LIBER’s Innovative Metrics Working Group. Our speakers were Isabella Peters (ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics) and Sarah Slowe (University of…
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Participating in LIBER comes with many benefits. One of these is the opportunity to contribute to DART-Europe: an e-theses portal through which libraries can raise the visibility of their work and research by publishing Open Access metadata records and research theses. In the following article, we explain in more detail what DART-Europe is and what…
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Tell us and the Libraries Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA) if you have been blocked from access to electronic content in the context of data mining. Our Copyright & Legal Matters Working Group is working with LACA to gather evidence about what happens when Technical Protection Measures (TPMs) block researchers from accessing content because they have…
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Are you a research librarian working in Europe? If so, you have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to help shape your national copyright legislation. Speak up for libraries and research so that your library benefits from new activities and services. If you don’t, your library’s ability to serve users could be unnecessarily restricted. This unique situation stems…
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It is an exciting time for those working with the publishing of academic books. The topic of Open Access (OA) books is being widely discussed in many workshops and conferences, and there is growing recognition that scholarly output formats beyond academic journal articles must be included when discussing OA policies, funding and workflows. Building on…
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Over 80% of surveyed LIBER libraries say they distribute Open Access (OA) books via a repository and include them in discovery services or catalogues. A further 40% publish OA books, or plan to do so, and a quarter provides library funding to pay author fees related to OA book publishing. These are among the insights…
DetailsAfter the successful presentation of the survey results, the Digital Humanities and Digital Cultural Heritage Working Group is already making plans for the coming year. In our new work plan we shift our attention to new topics emerging from the survey. To support our upcoming activities, we are looking for new people to join the…
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