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