Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER)

« The Digital Humanities — a growing field which many of Europe’s research libraries strongly support — risks being hit by a proposed amendment to the EU draft Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.

The problem stems from a change proposed to Article 6. The proposal adopted by the…

« As a long-standing advocate for Open Science, LIBER fully welcomes Plan S: an ambitious new initiative from national public research funders and the European Commission to make full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality. (…) »

« LIBER’s 47th Annual Conference in Lille, France brought 440 research library professionals together for a week of discussions focused on doing more with Open Science, and on related topics such as metrics, research data management and copyright reform.

« Open Science undoubtedly has the power to positively influence society. It can make science more collaborative, reproducible, transparent and impactful.

Its implementation is, however, not yet universal. A revolution is required: one which opens up research processes and changes mindsets in favour of a world where policies, tools and infrastructures…

« Over the 3 days of the conference, delegates network, collaborate, identify the most pressing needs for research libraries and share information and ideas for addressing those needs.

The Conference Programme is available online, and as a PDF file. »

« The use of scholarly metrics is one of the most challenging in the current research field. The proliferation of new models of scholarly communication, the changes in the research assessment field and the extensive use of social media applications have shaken the foundations of traditional metrics paradigms.

Open Science — which…

« This is a recording of a LIBER Webinar, held on 16 May 2018 with speakers Marlon Domingus and Maria Rehbinder »

« Join us on 16 May at 13:00 CET for a LIBER Webinar on GDPR and what it means for researchers.

Speakers Maria Rehbinder (Senior Legal Counsel at Aalto University and Certified Information Privacy Professional) and Marlon Domingus (Data Protection Officer at Erasmus University Rotterdam) will look at how GDPR relates…

« This is a recording of a LIBER webinar, made on 23 April 2018. It focuses on the work of the European Commission’s FAIR Data Expert Group. In this webinar, Simon Hodson, Executive Director of CODATA and Chair of the FAIR Data Expert Group, and Sarah Jones, Associate Director at the…

« Over the 3 days of the conference, delegates network, collaborate, identify the most pressing needs for research libraries and share information and ideas for addressing those needs. (…) »