Data Quality was the theme of a session organised as part of the last EuropeanaTech Conference held on February 12th and 13th 2015. The following report summarises the discussions that took place during this session: it touches upon the problems leading to poor data quality and proposes solutions to tackle them. The report also attempts to find useful elements of definitions that help better grasp the notion of what good data quality really is.

Representatives of several member states of the Arab League and a Chinese delegation agreed in Cairo to establish an expansive Arab-Chinese digital library so as to enhance cultural cooperation between the two sides.

For a second year in a row, major open access repository networks have met to develop closer ties and further align their expanding repository networks. The meeting, organized by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), welcomed representatives from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America.

The German legislator introduced new rules for handling out-of-commerce works: under these, works published in Germany before 1966 can, under certain conditions, be licensed for digitisation and public accessibility. The major part of German National Library’s (DNB) collections stems from the 20th century, accordingly it has a vital interest in making use of this newly created opportunity.

Hiberlink milestones and outcomes were presented at UKSG 2015 by Peter Burnhill and Richard Wincewicz.

This presentation looks at reference rot, link rot, and the work of Hiberlink to ensure web citations persist through time.

After setting the three main functions that library publishing platforms and repositories fulfil, Phil Jones concludes that libraries’ role in dissemination of scholarly works depends on their profile and the sizes of their publishing/repository programs. Different institutions will adopt different strategies, reflecting the types of scholarly output that they generate, local needs and priorities, and the occasional political constraint.

In this document, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) focuses on the main challenge in European research: the ‘Total Cost of Ownership’. This term includes both subscription costs paid by institutions and APCs (Article Processing Charges) for publishing in hybrid journals with an Open Access option paid by their staff members and researchers. This dual method of charging may mean that universities end up paying twice for access to the same material.

The Internet Archive and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) have announced a joint collaborative program to enhance sharing of collections from the Internet Archive in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The Internet Archive will work with interested Libraries and content providers to help ensure their metadata meets DPLA’s standards and requirements.

The CLOCKSS Archive, a not-for-profit joint venture between the world’s leading academic publishers and research libraries, has entered into an agreement with CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States) to support the archiving, preservation, and perpetual public access to articles reporting on US federally funded research, at no additional cost to taxpayers.

The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) has signed a partnership to speed up the digitization and online distribution of the press funds preserved by the institution from the beginning of written press.

Article in French.