LIBER, Ligue Européenne des Bibliothèques de Recherche, launched its new strategy 2018-2022 in November 2017. This presentation gives an overview about LIBER's vision, strategic directions, steering committee and working groups - existing and to be created in the years to come.
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
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…
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
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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