STEERING COMMITTEE ON SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION (SCSC) 

Current members of the Working Group on e-Science are:

• Chair, Birte Christensen Dalsgaard, Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Secretary, Dafne Jansen, Utrecht University Library, The Netherlands

Should you be interested in becoming a member of this Working Group, please send an email to Bas Savenije at bas.savenije@kb.nl.

PRIORITIES FOR 2010-2012

E-science, primary data, innovative research work flows, 2010-2012

LIBER’s engagement in e-science will focus on educational and policy roles, and
on strategic partnerships. The Steering Committee will prepare a work programme for the 2010-2012 period that will be presented in a Workshop to be organised in the autumn this year. Moreover, this workshop should provide answers to the following questions:

• definition of e-science, e-research and other relevant concepts
• description and analysis of trends
• identification of opportunities for research libraries (new products and services): involvement in innovative scholarly communication workflows
• creation of discovery and management systems for digital (primary) data
• preservation of, permanent access to and sharing of digital (primary) data and the role for institutional repositories
• description of the skills needed for information professionals and how they can be part of distributed (virtual) research team
• impact on library infrastructures and resources
• impact on the nature of licensing agreements
• recommendations on strategies for research libraries