The 4th LIBER Collection Security Conference will be held in the National Library of The Netherlands in The Hague on Friday 23rd November 2012. The conference will be organized by the National Library in co-operation with the National Archives. Detailed information will follow.
Why Panning for gold may be detrimental to research disseminated in Open Access.
At http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/jul/23/finch-report-open-access-research, the Guardian newspaper has published an article showing how UCL (University College London) is assessing current developments in Open Access, concluding that the Gold route brings a number of challenges for Europe's research-intensive universities.