« A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between LIBER and ADBU (Association des directeurs et personnels de direction des bibliothèques universitaires et de la documentation) has recently been approved. The MoU was signed off during LIBER’s Executive Board Meeting on the 11th of February 2021 and by ADBU’s Board on…
« Ensuring a sustainable future for Open Science (OS) and Open Access scholarly publishing is imperative to support today’s and tomorrow’s crises. This webinar will highlight the need for funding OS infrastructure in the context of COVID-19. (…) »
« How is Citizen Science—the active contribution of the general public in scientific research activities—developing, and what should research library involvement look like? This final session of the OCLC/LIBER Open Science Discussion series brought together research librarians with a range of viewpoints and practical experiences of this…
« What does research integrity mean in an ideal open science ecosystem and how can libraries contribute to heighten professional ethics and standards required by open science? The sixth session of the OCLC/LIBER Open Science Discussion series brought together a small group of engaged participants focusing on…
« What is the role of metrics and rewards in an ideal open science ecosystem? What are the challenges in getting there? What would collective action look like? The fourth session of the OCLC/LIBER Open Science Discussion series, which brought together a group of participants from universities…
« Recently OCLC Research and LIBER (the Association of European Research Libraries) hosted the first of seven small group discussions comprising the OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion Series. (…)
What does the ideal future state look like for…
« OCLC and LIBER announced today the launch of a discussion series on Open Science through webinars and discussion groups from 24 September-5 November. The series, based on the LIBER Open Science Roadmap, will help…
« Quatre chercheurs et ingénieurs INRAE ont été récompensés au niveau européen par le prix Liber de l’innovation (LIBER Award for Library Innovation) pour leur initiative « Peer Community In » qui promeut des pratiques ouvertes et transparentes de reviewing par les pairs. Rencontre avec Denis Bourguet et Thomas Guillemaud, respectivement…
« (…) La pratique effective de la science ouverte (SO) engage un éventail de connaissances, d’aptitudes et de compétences si large qu’il peut déconcerter les bibliothécaires et les chercheurs, en particulier lorsqu’ils sont novices en matière de concepts et de pratiques de la science ouverte. Identifier les compétences nécessaires est la…
« In times of fake news and discussions about science, findings and facts, society needs research libraries to safeguard trustworthy information. In the digital information overflow, libraries help students and researchers to find what they are looking for and to put that information in context.
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