Research Libraries Powering Sustainable Knowledge in the Digital Age: LIBER Europe Strategy 2018-2022
peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-11-03
Summary:
"The 2018-2022 LIBER Strategy, which will steer LIBER’s development over the next five years, will support LIBER libraries in facing coming changes in the European working environment such as the various initiatives in advancing Open Science. It will also enable research in LIBER organisations to be world class. The leading role of LIBER brings added value to the implementation of the Strategy at a European level. ...The term Open Science is not mentioned specifically in the Strategy. Instead, we emphasise innovative scholarly communication and digital skills and services, as well as research infrastructures to enable sustainable knowledge in the digital age.... Our Vision for the research landscape in 2022 is that the role of research libraries will lie in Powering Sustainable Knowledge in the Digital Age:
• Open Access is the predominant form of publishing;
• Research Data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR);
• Digital Skills underpin a more open and transparent research life cycle;
• Research Infrastructure is participatory, tailored and scaled to the needs of the diverse disciplines;
• The cultural heritage of tomorrow is built on today’s digital information....
Open Access of Research Publications: this theme will encompass developing innovative services on top of the repository network, developments regarding Open Access business models for journals and the role of libraries therein, and the possibilities for libraries as Open Access publishers and innovative publishing...Semantic Interoperability; Open and Linked Data: research libraries are experts in metadata and ontologies and need to take a leadership role and engage with other stakeholders to ensure interoperability and accessibility of content...."