Supporting the practice of openness: LIBER activities in open scholarship
1. Supporting the practice of openness: LIBER activities in open
scholarship
LERU seminar, June 6, 2014
Susan Reilly
Advocacy & Projects Manager
LIBER: Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche
susan.reilly@kb.nl
@skreilly
2. Contents
About LIBER
Areas of activity
Policy
Research data management
Training
Opportunities
Digital research methods/library as laboratory
Library as publisher
Transparency
3. 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”
6. To supporting the practice of openness
Open access publishing
New forms of peer review
Open infrastructure
Research data management
Open educational resources
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Open science
Collaboration
Coyright & licencing
Policy
Advocacy & training
Alternative Metrics
Open data
7. 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/
8. 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
9. 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
10. No. 2 benefit to organisations
“Ensure the integrity of research results”
11. Getting started in RDM?
LIBER working group on scientific information
infrastructures
14. 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
15. 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
17. Key role: training
Developing training platform and material
Training multipliers in open science
It’s collaborative and coordinating
http://www.fosteropenscience.eu/
18. 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
19. 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
21. 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
22. Thank you!
Any questions?
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