« LIBER, Europe’s leading association of research libraries, presents Five Principles for libraries to use when conducting Open Access negotiations with publishers.
The principles are based on the experiences of LIBER libraries in the past two years, and aim to guide libraries and consortia as they shift from a reader-pays model…
« LIBER’s 46th Annual Conference in Patras, Greece brought together over 300 research library professionals from 33 countries, and stimulated discussions on critical topics such as copyright reform, open science and the future of scholarly communication.
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« Many university and national libraries are exploring the best way to support researchers with text and data mining. That’s why on July 5th 2017, OpenMinTeD and FutureTDM organised a workshop about text and data mining at the LIBER conference in Patras. 4 different speakers guided 16 participants through the various…
« Fin 2016, grâce à l’implication du CA et de la Commission Pédagogie et documentation, l’ADBU a participé aux tests du kit DIY d’atelier de co-design du CNNum. L’objectif était de proposer aux institutions de l’ESR un kit « clé en main » d’ateliers collaboratifs reproductibles afin qu’elles mènent à leur tour, localement,…
« LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, and OCLC Research are launching a collaborative project to explore the adoption and integration of persistent identifiers (PIDs) in European research information management (RIM) infrastructures.
The project will complement and extend previous research institution-scale implementations of RIM…
« LIBER has signed an open letter urging European lawmakers to put EU copyright reform back on track.
The letter was sent to Ministers attending the Competitiveness Council, European Parliament Rapporteur MEP Therese Comodini Cachia and her colleagues. It has…
« Representatives of DARIAH-EU and LIBER have met in Lausanne, Switzerland, to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU).
The MoU defines corner stones for a closer cooperation of the two organisations. “In DARIAH we know that advancing digital research is a joint effort with those organisations who provide essential primary sources…
« The FAIR Data Principles are a hot topic in research data management. Their adoption within the H2020 funding programme means researchers now have to pay much more attention to how their share, publish and archive their data.
Recently LIBER held a Webinar on this topic, with Alastair Dunning of TU…
« In October 2016, Research Consulting, within the scope of the OpenAIRE Work Package dealing with the FP7 Post Grant Open Access Pilot (WP5), was commissioned by LIBER to undertake an economic analysis study of the Open Access publishing market: “Towards a Competitive and Sustainable OA…
« This paper is a critical discussion of the Leiden Manifesto for libraries already engaged in bibliometric practices. It offers practical recommendations based on the work of the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) Working Group on Metrics. This work is in the beginning phase and summarizes literature on the topic…
