Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER)

« … Le 19 février dernier, l’ancien président de la Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche, Paul Ayris, est intervenu à Bruxelles auprès du commissaire européen Günther Oettinger pour défendre la nécessité d’une réforme du droit d’auteur, sur ce point précis du Text and Data Mining.

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« At the October Executive Board meeting in Lausanne  the LIBER Executive Board agreed to sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) (…)

LIBER recognises the pressing need highlighted by DORA to improve the ways in which the output of scientific research is evaluated by…

« Full papers are available  from IFLA’s Library

– Mining large datasets for thehumanities PETER LEONARD (…)

– Do we need to believe Data/Tangible or Emotional/Intuition? JEAN-LUC MARINI, FANJUAN SHI (…)

– Copyright law and text and data mining: the…

« On the eve of the closing of the European Consultation on Science 2.0, LIBER has issued a statement both welcoming the Consultation as a step towards strengthening the competitiveness of European research, and calling on the European Commission to take measures towards enabling Open Science (…)

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« …The pause in the publication of the White Paper is good news for LIBER and LERU because it is an indication that our views on the need for an EU-wide Exception are being heeded by decision makers in the Commission. It seems likely that the issue of the…

« We’re putting as much information from the conference as possible online. Here are some of the ways to learn about and share conference material.

Presentations & Posters

All presentations and posters have been uploaded to the conference website. You will find the download links for…

« In July 2012, LIBER’s E-Science working group released ‘Ten recommendations for libraries to get started with research data management’. Since then, several libraries across Europe have started to build up or have expanded their capacities for research data management, typically combining e-infrastructure and support services (…)

« … Our request has been laid out and explained in an open letter to Michiel Kolman, Senior VP Global Academic Relations at the academic publishing company.

We believe that Elsevier’s current TDM policy places unnecessary restrictions on researchers. It limits their ability, and their right, to…

« LIBER and LERU (the League of European Research Universities) have released a letter which publicly states our opposition to the European Publishers Council’s EPC Copyright Vision Paper 2014: Copyright Enabled on the Network.

The letter underlines our shared position on Text…

« LIBER welcomes the recent publication of figures showing UK university expenditure on Elsevier’s journal packages. The figures shine a light on a market that currently lacks transparency and expose the wide variation in prices being paid by UK universities. These variations cannot be rationally explained in…