1. LIBER’s New Strategy 2018-2022
Jeannette Frey
LIBER vice-president
Director BCU Lausanne
Focus on Open Science, Vienna, November 20, 2017

2. About
LIBER

3. We’re Europe’s
largest
research
library
network.
Founded in 1971.
Based in The Hague.

4. 400+ libraries
University, national
and special libraries.

5. LIBER’s new
Strategy 2018-2022
• The changing world of scholarly
communication
• Authors and articles, peer review, Open
Access, users, big data
• Research data
• The new LIBER Strategy 2018-2022
• The vision statement
• The strategic directions and existing working
groups
• New working groups

6. The changing world
of scholarly
communication
Authors and
articles
• Growth in the number of scientific publications in
the world – huge market
• Growing number of titles
• Growth in the number of articles even bigger than
growth of titles
• More authors
• Increasingly difficult to publish in high impact
journals
• Threshold to enter the market is high for newly created
journals.

7. The changing world
of scholarly
communication
Peer-review
• Peer-review remains
fundamental in scholarly
communication
• Lack of reviewers
• Innovation in peer-review is
needed

8. The changing world
of scholarly
communication
Open Access
• More than 10’000 fully
Open Access journals
listed on DOAJ in 2017
• about 12 % of articles
published in OA
• 10-12 % of self-
archived copies.

9. The changing
world of scholarly
communication
The user
• 2017:
• 4 billions users of the
Web
• 100 % UNIL students
own a computer
• 95 % own a portable
computer
• 99 % own a
smartphone
• 6 % also own a tablet…

10. The changing
world of scholarly
communication
Big data
• Everyone produces
lots of data!
• Mass digitization by
publishers and libraries
creates data pools
• Native-digital e-
journals creates data
pools

11. Research data
The challenges
• What is research data?
• We didn’t collect it in the
past, why should we
collect it now?
• How shall we get the data?
• 80 % organize qualitative
data on their own
computer
• 5 % use the library
• What happens if we don’t
get it?

12. Research data
Policy makers
• UK Research Council
(2011, 2015)
• OSPP:
• Action line FAIR data
• Action line Open Science
• Action line Rewards

13. Research data
Data in libraries
• Hidden data
• Metadata
• Ontologies and
cross-ontologies
• Open and closed
data
• Different
behaviours in
different fields
regarding data

14. Research data
Skills
• Train researchers for
Open Science: Open
Access publishing, Open
Data management,
citizen science skills
• Provide support for
Open Science:
infrastructures,
technical, legal,
professional and
implementational
support Written by The Working Group on Education and Skills under Open Science
July – 2017
Providing researchers with the
skills and competencies they
need to practise Open Science
Report of the Working Group on Education and Skills
under Open Science

15. Research data
Rewards
• Open Science Career
Matrix (OS-CAM)
• Use of FAIR data
• Engage society and
users
• Be aware of ethical
and legal issues
• Contribute to open
peer review
Evaluation of Research
Careers fully acknowledging
Open Science Practices
Rewards, incentives and/or recognition for researchers
practicing Open Science

17. Vision:
The research
landscape in 2022

18. Open Access is
the main form
of publishing.

19. Research Data
is Findable,
Accessible,
Interoperable
and Reusable
(FAIR).

20. Digital Skills
underpin a
more open and
transparent
research life
cycle.

21. Research
Infrastructure is
participatory,
tailored and
scaled to the
needs of the
diverse
disciplines.

22. Tomorrow’s
cultural
heritage is built
on today’s
digital
information.

23. Strategic
directions
2018-2022

24. Strategic
directions
2018-2022
Working Groups & Projects
•Copyright & Legal Matters
•Open Access
•Innovative Metrics

25. Strategic
directions
2018-2022
Working Groups & Projects
•Digital Humanities &
Digital Cultural Heritage
•Leadership

26. Strategic
directions
2018-2022
Working Groups & Projects
•Architecture Forum
•Research Data Management

27. Architecture
Seminar
Vienna, 18-20
April, 2018

28. 29/11/2017 28
Text & Data Mining
Leadership programme
Open Access.
Metrics
Innovative peer-review
Citizen Science
Digital skills of library
staff, members and
researchers
Information ethics
Research data
management
Digital Humanities
Shared services & cloud
services
Linked Open Data
Architecture Forum
Digital Cultural Heritage
Forum
Service portfolio
transformation
Copyright and legal
matters

29. New challenges,
new working
groups
Digital skills of
staff and
researchers
• Define the new services needed for students
and researchers
• Define new skills needed to provide these services
• Assessment and evaluation of success of new
services
• Define which old services could be disengaged

30. New challenges,
new working
groups
Service portfolio
transformation
• Changing the service development
philosophy
• Foster service development philosophy
• Based on user-centred design
• Share best practices on agile development and
user engagement

31. New challenges,
new working
groups
Innovative peer-
review
• Investigate the landscape and the role of
libraries
• Analyse options: Open peer review, cascade
review, portable peer-review…

32. New challenges,
new working
groups
Citizen Science
• Stimulating citizen
science through
outreach
• Development of
services.

33. New challenges,
new working
groups
Information ethics
• Information ethics:
• Libraries need to engage in and advocate for
development of information ethics in the interests
of the research community.

34. New challenges,
new working
groups
Text & Data Mining
• Develop best practice in supporting TDM e.g.
licencing, tools, data storage, visualisation
• Cooperate with research infrastructures which
enable your researchers to perform TDM
• Collect TDM methods
• Create educational programs for researchers
about TDM

35. New challenges,
new working
groups
Linked Open Data
• Semantic
interoperability;
open and linked
data:
• Map the initiatives
• Share best practices

36. New challenges,
new working
groups
Shared services &
cloud services
• Shared services &
cloud services to be
created
• Map the available
services
• Participate in
standardisation

37. Join A Group
All staff in LIBER
libraries are welcome .
•Learn from others
•Share your
professional
knowledge
•Work together for a
stronger voice

38. Join Us!
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39. Thank you!
QUESTIONS?
Jeannette.frey@bcu.unil.ch @libereurope