Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER)

« La conférence annuelle organisée par la Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (LIBER) s’est tenue du 03 au 05 juillet 2024. Le thème de la conférence de cette année était : Bibliothèques à la pointe de l’innovation au service de la science et de la société.…

« LIBER is pleased to announce the launch of the citizen science guide for research libraries Open Science Meets Citizen Science edited by Bastian Greshake Tzovaras of The Alan Turing Institute. This is the third section of the guide series Citizen Science for Research Libraries.…

« La conférence annuelle organisée par la Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (LIBER) se tiendra du 03 au 05 juillet 2024. Le thème de la conférence de cette année est : Bibliothèques à la pointe de l’innovation au service de la science et de la société.…

« LIBER and LA Referencia Webinar – Making Research Assessment a Reality: Showcasing Concrete Open Science Advancements in Latin America and Europe

On 13 May 2024 LIBER and LA Referencia co-organised a webinar aiming at providing a panel of concrete case studies, inspiring examples and useful contacts for building a framework…

« The development of policies in favour of open science and the transformation of publication channels for academic literature and research produced with public funding by researchers and authors in higher education, combined with technological and financial developments in open access models for scholarly publication and the interest shown by funders…

« In January 2023, OpenAIRE, LIBER, SPARC Europe, and COAR launched a joint strategy aimed at strengthening the European repository network. As a first step, a survey of the European repository landscape was undertaken in February-March 2023. The survey…

« LIBER is strongly pursuing a change in the paradigms of scholarly communication, as is evident in our 2023-2027 Strategy. Through communication with our members, we recognise that even in Europe the inequalities in the publication system are immense. In our multi-language continent,…

« On 3 October 2023 LIBER, UNESCO and LA Referencia joined forces for a webinar outlining the the Open Science monitoring methods and tools currently developed in Europe. The event introduced several examples of inclusive monitoring of Open Science, in line with the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science.…

« Secondary publishing rights articles have been introduced in seven European countries, while others are exploring their introduction. These are considered as an example of the broad efforts to recalibrate the entire scholarly communication system, together with rights retention policies, and their importance has been greeted by the Council of Europe…

« LIBER 2023 Annual Conference took place in Budapest, Hungary (5-7 July 2023) and was hosted at the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. »