The document outlines the LIBER strategy for libraries and research data for 2018-2022, focusing on the evolving landscape of scholarly communication, the necessity for innovative peer review, and the push towards open access publishing. It highlights the challenges surrounding research data management and the need for libraries to develop new digital skills and services to support researchers. Furthermore, it emphasizes collaboration in research infrastructure and advocacy for open access policies while preparing library staff for ongoing changes in technology and user needs.

1. Research data
LIBER Strategy
for libraries and
research data
Jeannette Frey
LIBER vice-president
Director BCU Lausanne
ExLibris Nordic Directors Meeting 2017, Oslo,
October 27, 2017

2. LIBER Strategy for
libraries and
research data
• The changing world of scholarly communication
• Authors and articles
• Peer review
• Open Access
• The user
• Big data
• Research data
• The new LIBER Strategy 2018-2022
• The vision statement
• The strategic directions
• The implementation plan – the changing role of the library

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

6. 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…

7. 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

8. Research data

9. 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
• If Academics don’t want to
give it, shall we be a
compliance police?

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

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

12. 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

13. 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

14. LIBER Strategy
process 2018-2022

15. LIBER strategy
2018-2022
Vision statement
• In 2022:
• Open Access is predominant form of publishing
• Research data is findable, accessible,
interoperable and reusable (FAIR)
• Digital skills underpin an open and transparent
research life cycle
• Research infrastructure is participatory, tailored
and scaled to the needs of the diverse disciplines
• Cultural heritage of tomorrow is distilled from
today’s digital information

16. LIBER strategy
2018-2022
Strategic
directions 2018-
2022

17. Libraries as
platform for
innovative
Scholarly
communication
• Develop innovative services on top of
repository networks
• Be an Open Access publisher!
• Manage research data
• Implement innovative metrics
• Go into innovative peer review

18. Libraries as a hub
for Digital Skills
and Services
• Diversify digital skills of library staff
• Manage the change
• Influence copyright and legal matters
• Be a hub for digital humanities and digital
cultural heritage
• Engage in information ethics

19. Libraries
partnering in
Research
Infrastructure
• Cooperate in development of interoperable and
scalable infrastructures and services
• Shared services & cloud services
• Engage in semantic interoperability (LOD)
• Guideline for Data stewardship
• Disciplinary partnership

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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 ForumService portfolio
transformation
Copyright and
legal matters

21. New challenges,
new tasks
Leadership
programme
• Training new leaders:
• Permanent change management
• New technologies - innovation management
• New profiles… or train existing staff in new tasks
• Manage print & electronic resources with
shrinking budgets…
• Do the policy work
• Do the communication work

22. New challenges,
new tasks
Digital Humanities
• WG Digital Collections à Digital
Humanities
• Humanities require special attention (not
as digital as other domains)
• Define our role
• Enhance skills of library staff in DH
• Describe cooperation between libraries
and research communities

23. New challenges,
new tasks
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

24. New challenges,
new tasks
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

25. New challenges,
new tasks
Open Access
• Advocate for Open
Access policies and
mandates
• Licensing and
negotiation about
Open Access
• Promote Open
Access policies

26. New challenges,
new tasks
Copyright and
legal matters
• Advocate for
research friendly
copyright reform
• Publishing
statements to be
reused by member
libraries in their
advocacy work

27. New challenges,
new tasks
Metrics
• Explore new metrics
• Provide guidance on
how to support metrics
• Organize workshops
on how to implement
new metrics
• Advocate for new
metrics

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

29. New challenges,
new tasks
Citizen Science
• Stimulating citizen
science through
outreach
• Development of
services.

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

31. New challenges,
new tasks
Research data
management
• Building capacity
• Developing FAIR RDM policies
• Advocating for FAIR data
• Engaging in development of metadata standards
• Developing criteria and guidelines for Data
stewardship and data curation

32. New challenges,
new tasks
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

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

34. New challenges,
new tasks
Shared services &
cloud services• Shared services &
cloud services to be
created
• Map the available
services
• Participate in
standardisation

35. There will be
plenty of changes!
• Not only technology: lots of
challenges are in
management and skills
• You will have to choose
your priorities!
• 2022, the age when OA is
predominant, data is
FAIR, everybody is
digitally skilled and
cultural heritage is digital
is near!

36. Thanks for your
attention!
Questions?
jeannette.frey@bcu.unil.ch
@jeannettefrey
@libereurope
www.libereurope.eu