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Supporting the practice of openness: LIBER activities in open scholarshipLERU seminar, June 6, 2014
Susan ReillyAdvocacy & Projects ManagerLIBER: Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche
susan.reilly@kb.nl@skreilly
Contents
About LIBER Areas of activity
Policy Research data management Training
Opportunities Digital research methods/library as laboratory Library as publisher Transparency
LIBER: reinventing the library of the future
Largest network of European research libraries: 410 in over 40 countries
Mission:
“To provide an information infrastructure to enable research in LIBER institutions to be world class”
Advocacy
LIBER Activities
Reshaping The
research library
Scholarly Communication
&Research
Infrastructure
From serials crisis…
“We write to communicate an untenable situation facing the Harvard Library. Many large journal publishers have made the scholarly communication environment fiscally unsustainable and academically restrictive. ” Harvard University Library, 2012
To supporting the practice of openness
Open access publishing
New forms of peer review
Open infrastructureResearch data management
Open educational resources
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)Open science
Collaboration
Coyright & licencing
Policy
Advocacy & trainingAlternative Metrics
Open data
Key Role: policy development
ReCODE: policy recommendations for open access to research data in Europe Disciplinary approach Values, Infrastructure, Legal & Ethical, Institutional
One size does not fit all Values differ across disciplines As does data And RDM practices
Attitudes and practices will change over time Increase in skills Availability of infrastucture Evidence and incentives Legislative change will impact practices
http://recodeproject.eu/
Key role: policy coordination
PASTEUR4OA (Open Access Policy Alignment Strategies for European Union Research)
So many policies, so little coordination! Surveying existing policies Analysing effectiveness and impact Engaging policy makers
http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/home
Key role: research data management
“Without the infrastructure that helps scientists manage their data in a convenient and efficient way,
no culture of data sharing will evolve.”
Stefan Winkler-Nees (German Research Foundation, DFG)www.odeproject.eu
No. 2 benefit to organisations
“Ensure the integrity of research results”
Getting started in RDM?
LIBER working group on scientific information infrastructures
http://www.libereurope.eu/news/ten-recommendations-for-libraries-to-get-started-with-research-data-management
Getting started in RDM
Need for cross service collaboration Strong case for centralised support service Lack of clarity about what research data is
and how it should be made accessible Need to go beyond the institution Investment in advocacy and awareness
raising
Next steps
Recheck the gap Identify new competencies
and skills
LIBER, ARL & COAR joint task force on Librarians’ Competencies in Support of E-Research and Scholarly Communication
2. Skills a HUGE priority
Key role: training
Developing training platform and material Training multipliers in open science It’s collaborative and coordinating
http://www.fosteropenscience.eu/
Future roles in supporting the practice of openness
Library embedded throughout the research lifecycle From project proposal to curation post project
Library as laboratory Mining and visualisation of data
Library as publisher Publishing layers over institutional repository
Shared infrastructure For open access monographs, Linked Open Data, TDM
Stacks of the José Vasconcelos Library in Mexico City, cc-by
Library as Laboratory
Digital and digitised collections Curation of data Linked Open Data Tools for data visualisation
e.g. Europeana Cloud, Haithi Trust Research Centre, Trove
Library as publisher
The diamond route No fee to author Overlay publications
Creating the perfect conditions for openess
Legislative change Policy development and coordination
Mandates Licencing
Collaboration To implement policies To build and connect infrastructure Develop competencies/best practice
Transparency & cooperation Tim Gowers started the ball rolling in the UK Key to success of gold open access (double dipping)
By Shacktown123 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 )], via Wikimedia Commons
Thank you!
Any questions? Find out more at www.libereurope.eu
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