For the second time in 2014, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) copyright committee could not agree on the conclusions of its session or on any recommendation to be made to the September General Assembly on the protection of broadcasting organisations or the establishment of an international regime of exception and limitations for libraries and education.

The 28th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) took place from 30 June to 4 July.

A side event was held on 30 June by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) entitled, “Keeping Copyright Relevant in the digital environment: libraries, archives and licences.” It questioned the impact of digital content licence terms and conditions on the mission of libraries and archives.

The DIRBUIST Days were held on 3 and 4 June 2014 at the initiative of the French Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research. Were discussed the developments of cross-national projects in higher education and research and the evolution of scientific and technical information (STI) initiatives in the European research environment, noticeable research data preservation and sharing.

“Métarevues” is a project launched by the Agence bibliographique de l’enseignement supérieur / Higher Education Bibliographic Agency (ABES). This tool dedicated to periodicals generates the complete history – paper and electronic – of a “métarevue”, from a bibliographic identifier or an ISSN (print or digital).  What is called “métarevue” is the sum of all the titles which form a periodical since birth.

LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) 43rd Annual Conference was held in Riga, Latvia, 2-5 July 2014. The conference theme was “Research Libraries in the 2020 Information Landscape”, among the broached topics: open access publishing, digital collections, linked open data and repositories.

Papers and posters are available online.

OpenAIRE and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) organised a joint conference including the COAR Annual Meeting. The conference took place from May 21- 23, 2014 in Athens, Greece, at the Athens Acropolis Museum.

The main topics were: the connexions between repositories, libraries and research services; the measurement of scientific output impact and data in an institutional context, and global interoperability of repository networks.

Legal deposit of the online publications at the NDL: recent developments of the project and problems encountered.

Faced with the need of collecting ebooks, the BnF tries to raise and answer some technical implementation issues, based on its experience of managing digital documents and its tradition of legal deposit.

To move towards a public Science that is open to all its beneficiaries, the CNRS ( French National Centre for Scientific Research ) has committed to promoting “a better sharing of knowledge” which above all entails improved sharing of scientific and technical information (STI).

Forward-thinking developers participated in Research Libraries UK’s (RLUK) first Linked Open Data (LOD) Hackathon in London in May. The European Library published a series of LOD case studies about early adoption of LOD. Ideas and recommendations were exchanged for making further improvements to data access. The event’s objective was to strengthen expertise and test LOD applicability and its potential to create library solutions.

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