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!

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