RESEARCH LIBRARIES, RESEARCHERS & THE EOSC: HOW DO THEY INTERACT? Southern European Landscape

During the last two weeks of January 2021, LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, and Scientific Knowledge Services organised a series of five workshops on the interaction between research libraries, researchers, and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). These workshops were aimed at discussing the role of the libraries in connecting researchers to Open Science and the EOSC, and at analysing how their services developed to support researchers can be integrated into the EOSC.

The workshop held on 18 January 2021 was the first in a series of five workshops with the aim of answering the following questions:

1) What is the value of EOSC for researchers and research libraries, based on the goals/work of the EOSC?

2) What is the input needed from these stakeholders toward the EOSC?

3) How can these stakeholder groups be actively involved in EOSC activities and what do they need to get involved?

4) What feedback mechanism could be built to continuously inform EOSC, in its quest to remain an agile infrastructure?

This first workshop focused on the Southern European landscape. The target audience were researchers and research library staff, and the number of participants (excluding organisers, presenters, the moderator and the rapporteur) was 33 (22 female participants, 10 male participants and one participant that registered under his/her institution’s name). The participants were from 13 countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Moldova, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain and Turkey.