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LIBERAssociation of European Research Libraries
Lluis Anglada - Director of the Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia & LIBER Board Member
What is LIBER?
• The largest network of European research/academic libraries: more than 425 institutions, from over 40 countries
• LIBER's network is not restricted to the area of the European Union and it covers the whole of Europe
• LIBER was founded in 1971. Since 2009, LIBER has had its seat in The Hague (Netherlands)
LIBER’s portfolio of EU projects
• Content • Europeana Libraries = Aggregation of research library content• Europeana Newspapers = Adding newspaper content to Europeana
• Infrastructure• APARSEN (Digital Preservation Best Practice Network) = Common vision
for digital preservation: trust, sustainability, usability, access• ODE (Opportunities for Data Exchange) = Explores libraries role in linking
data to publications and in supporting data exchange • AAA study (Authentication, Authorisation, Accounting) = A researcher
passport- facilitating seemless access and reuse, overview of RI landscape
• Policy: MedOANet
• www.europeana-libraries.eu• www.europeana-newspapers.eu• http://www.ode-project.eu/• www.alliancepermanentaccess.org• https://confluence.terena.org/display/aaastudy
LIBER’s strategy 2013-2015
Key Performance Areas:
Scholarly Communications & Research InfrastructuresReshaping the Research LibraryAdvocacy & Communications
OA in the LIBER’s strategy 2013-15
• By 2015, LIBER will:• Enrich the student experience by providing services and resources that meet the
changing profile and increasingly high expectations of learners based in LIBER
institutions
• Engage new audiences, using the best of its collections, expertise and spaces
• Strengthen its partnerships with the EU, European University Associations and cognate
library organisations and consortia
• Build on LIBER’s work in Scholarly Communication to construct research infrastructures which serve LIBER members
• Increase its advocacy activity on behalf of European research and national libraries to
the EU, LIBER member institutions, research funders, sponsors
• Help build a workforce in LIBER member institutions whose skills continue to keep pace
with change
Strategic goals
• To transfer the mission of research libraries into the digital world and re-position the research library as a key actor in the digital knowledge infrastructure
• To enable the research library to become a central point-of-contact for researchers and faculty in the area of scholarly publishing and research data management at institutional level for all academic disciplines
LIBER’s vision
• Research Infrastructures (RIs) and Scholarly Communication relate closely to each other, as RIs support changes in Scholarly Communication
• Issues for LIBER• Scholarly Communication • Research Infrastructures (RIs) • New roles for the research (and national) libraries
Scholarly Communication issues
• Open Access• green • gold
• Managing transition • combining licensing with OA• creating and implementing new business models
• Linking research publications to research data and learning materials,
• Creating repository networks (such as DART)
Research infrastructures issues
• Repositories • institutional • disciplinary
• Digital collections• Digitalized (heritage) collections • Digital born collections
• Research data (big data)
New library roles for research (and national) libraries
• Library roles in Research Infrastructures (RIs) and Scholarly Communication, support:
• Access, use and re-use • Interoperability and standards • Metadata, authorities, ontologies• Preservation• Usage statistics, research profiles, etc. • Develop new skills for librarians
It is important to bring different stakeholders together
• key projects, initiatives and organisations such as • OpenAIRE and OpenAIREplus, • COAR, • Knowledge Exchange; SPARC-Europe,
• researchers and disciplinary research infrastructures • university organisations
• EUA, LERU, COIMBRA...
• funders on the European and national level • EC, ERC, EuroScience etc.
DART-Europe
• is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.
• Help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs),
• Participate in advocacy to influence future European e-theses developments.
• Is a networking forum on ETD issues.
DART
• DART-Europe E-Theses portal• www.dart-europe.eu
• 307.264 Open Access theses (as of 10th of July 2012)• 24 European countries
• 432 Universities
• A LIBER service for members (Association of European Research Libraries)
Open Access to research theses
• Theses freely available in Open Access are more heavily used than paper equivalents
• Example: Dublin City University, 2009
• 518 consultations of paper theses
• 16,212 downloads for the equivalent digital theses See: Hill, R. and Moyle, M. (2010) http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/19955
Credits
Some slides are reused from presentations by: • Dr. Paul Ayris (UCL)• Susan Reilly (LIBER)
Nicely blended for Medoanet attenders by• Marieke Willems (LIBER)• Lluís Anglada (CBUC)
Thanks for your attention