Resources

LIBER supports research libraries with reports, factsheets, case studies, webinars and other resources. This page links to our most important updates and results.

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Architecture

• Webinar: Planning Library Spaces – Key Points

Artificial Intelligence

• Webinar: Generating Metadata With AI – Experience of the National Library of the Netherlands

Copyright & Legal Matters

Copyright Guidance

• Transposing the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market: A Guide for Libraries and Library Associations
• Digital Single Market Directive – Articles 8-11: Checklist for Determining When This Exception for Mass Digitisation of Out-of-Commerce Works Can Be Used
• Briefing Documents on Implementation of the EU Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive for Libraries
• Webinar: Overview and Implementation of Europe’s New Copyright Legislation
• Directive On Copyright In The Digital Single Market: An Overview
• Europe’s New Copyright Directive: Golden Opportunity or Missed Opportunity for Libraries and Universities? 
• A Basic Guide to EU Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries

Advocacy for Copyright Revisions & TDM Exception

• LIBER Calls for the Deletion of Articles 11 and 13
• Europe Needs A Broad & Mandatory TDM Exception
• Webinar: EU Copyright Reform & Why Research Libraries Should Care
• European Copyright Reform: How Did We Get Here & What Happens Next?
• Copyright Reform: Help Us Ensure an Effective TDM Exception!
• TDM Exception: Four Essential Points For Copyright Reform
• LIBER Signs Open Letter Calling for a Revised Text and Data Mining (TDM) Exception
• A Copyright Exception for Text and Data Mining
• LIBER Response to STM Statement on Text and Data Mining
• LIBER Response to the Public Consultation on the Review of EU Copyright Rules
• Text and Data Mining: The Need for Change in Europe
• Copyright In The Digital Age
• Webinar: How Can Libraries Support TDM?
• Europe’s TDM Exception for Research: Will It Be Undermined By Technical Blocking From Publishers?

GDPR

• Webinar: GDPR & What It Means For Researchers

Digital Humanities

• Webinar: Open A GLAM Lab
• Europe’s Digital Humanities Landscape: A Study From LIBER’s Digital Humanities & Digital Cultural Heritage Working Group

Digital Preservation

• Webinar: Digital Preservation Opportunities & Challenges Ahead

Digital Skills

• Case Studies on Open Science Skilling and Training Initiatives in Europe
• Webinar: Use Cases for Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)
• Librarian Competency Profiles

European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)

• Webinar: Ethical Issues & Skills in the European Open Science Cloud
• Skills and Training in Open Science and the EOSC ecosystem: Libraries and Researchers
• European Open Science Cloud: Austria takes initiative (quotes and sketchnotes)
• LIBER Endorses the European Open Science Cloud Declaration
• Position Paper: European Open Science Cloud for Research
• LIBER Statement on a European Open Science Cloud
• Workshop report “Training in the EOSC”

Impact

• Webinar: How Europeana’s Impact Playbook Can Help Measure Impact In Your Library

Innovative Metrics

• Webinar: Metrics & Machines
• Webinar: Innovating The Ways Metrics Are Applied, Responsible Metrics & Measuring Openness
• Scholarly Metrics Recommendations For Research Libraries: Deciphering the Trees in the Forest

Linked Open Data

• Impressions & Challenges Among Europe’s Research Libraries

Open Access

• Open Access Books in Academic Libraries: How Can We Adapt Workflows & Cost Management to an Open Scholarly Communications Landscape?
• OA Monographs in Europe’s Research Libraries: Best-Practices, Opportunities & Challenges
• Five Principles for Open Access Negotiations with Publishers
• LIBER’s Open Access Publication Guidelines
• LIBER’s Open Access Commitment: Achievements & A Renewed Call to Action

Plan S

• A View of Plan S from the International Alliance of Research Library Associations
• Open Access Working Group: Statement on Plan S guidelines
• LIBER’s recommendations for cOAlition S as regards the implementation of Plan S

Open Science

• Webinar: Open Science – Inspiring Cultural Change In Your Library
• LIBER’s Open Science Roadmap for Research Libraries
• Organise Your Own Open Science Cafe / DIY Kit
• A Vision for Open Science (thoughts resulting from a LIBER / EOSCpilot Workshop)
• Open Science At The Core of Libraries (created through the EU-funded FOSTER project, in which LIBER was a partner)
• The Hague Declaration
• Academia permeating society through Citizen Science: Use cases of engagement in Higher Education (created through the EU-funded INOS project, in which LIBER is a partner)
• Academia permeating society through Citizen Science: recommendations for Higher Education Institutions (created through the EU-funded INOS project, in which LIBER is a partner)
• State-of-the-art analysis of the pedagogical underpinnings of open science, citizen science and open innovation activities (created through the EU-funded INOS project, in which LIBER is a partner)
• Enhancing impact using pedagogy: A roadmap for organising open science, citizen science and open innovation activities (created through the EU-funded INOS project, in which LIBER is a partner)

Federated Access

• Federated Access to Digital Resources at Libraries (developed as part of the AARC project, in which LIBER was a partner)

Research Data Management

• Webinar: Data Curation From A Practical Perspective
• Webinar: Finding and Reusing Research Data
• FAIRness of Repositories & Their Data: A Report from LIBER’s Research Data Management Working Group
• Webinar: Library Carpentry – Teaching Data Science Skills & Upcoming Instructor Training
• Webinar: Turning FAIR Data Into Reality
• Webinar: Reproducibility Librarianship in Practice
• Implementing FAIR Data Principles: The Role of Libraries (Factsheet)
• Webinar: Systems and Services – Adding Value For Research Data Assets
• Webinar: Research Data Services Survey
• Research Data Services in Europe’s Academic Research Libraries: Survey Results 
• Webinar: Are the FAIR Data Principles fair?
• Webinar: 23 Things About Research Data Management
• Webinar: Supporting Data Literacy
• Libraries & Research Data: Towards a new leadership role
• 11 Case Studies on Research Data Management in Libraries
• Ten Recommendations for Libraries to Get Started with Research Data Management
• Report on SSHOC (meta)data interoperability problems (created through the EU-funded SSHOC project, in which LIBER is a partner)