Welcome to the University Library!
Maria Carme Torras, PhD Library director
UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN
An outstanding open and innovative library for research, education and scholarly communication. UBL strategy 2016-2022
About the library
100 staff members
We serve
• 16 400 students • 3 600 staff members • The general public
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9 branch libraries 7 faculty libraries Humanites Law Mathematics and Natural Sciencies Art and Design Psychology, Education and Health Medicine and Dentistry Social Sciencies and Music
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Photo, manuscript and rare book collections Norwegian Language Collections National Archive for LGBT and Queer History
Special collections
Acquisitions, digital systems and services
Collections
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THE LIBRARY
2016 Printed books 1,070,159 E-books 391,844 Printed journals 7 252 E-journals 18 890
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Budget 2017 ~165 mill NOK
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Loans and downloads 2014-2016
2014 2015 2016
Loan of print materials 88 635 78 919 75 490
Downloads from article databases 1 315 667 1 437 106 1 550 886
Research
Bibliometrics – Scholarly publishing
• Yearly report on University scholarly publishing
• Tailored reports
(researcher profiles, research grant applicactions, collaboration overviews)
• Increasing number of queries
• Professional development
Research Information System (CRIStin)
Scholarly publications
THE challenge: Increasing price of providing access - license
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• Results from research publicly funded must be available to the public
(2 white papers*, Horizon 2020) • Availability crucial to build up open
government
*St.meld. nr. 30 (2008-2009) Klima for forskning; St.meld. nr. 18 (2012-2013) Lange linjer – kunnskap gir muligheter.
Sustainable access to scholarly communication
The contribution of academic libraries Partners in creating university policies for open
science (OA publications, open research data)
Providing infrastructure for OA • Institutional repositories • University OA publishing fonds • OA journal and book publishing support • Digital curation of open research data
Bergen Open Access Publishing (BOAP) Setting up and technical management 2016: 10 journals 109 published contributions
OA guidance (MIL for researchers): copyright, research visibiblity, publishing channels, research data management
Photo: UBB
Open Access week 2016
Engaging in national and international processes to move away from subscription-based models to open access models:
• Negotiating OA content with publishers for
our library consortia licenses • National guidelines for OA publishing • Following up on international developments
Research infrastructure and data
• Digital Humanities, digital full text archives (Wittgenstein, Holbergs skrifter, CLARINO)
• Open research data management plans • Open research data curation • National and institutional open data policies
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Education and Learning
Embedded information literacy In 2016 • 263 IL courses • 4343 participants • 412 supervision hours
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Academic writing
- Pilot project Academic Writing Centre - Dialogue with faculty and current activity
“The digital academic library as a knowledge creating resource and an educational partner in Nordic Higher Education» • Strengthen the library’s educational role in the digital environment • Development of learning objects to support students’ academic process, incl. IL. • Nordplus collaborative project: University Libraries in Århus, Lund og Bergen.
Open digital learning resources
Co-creating learning spaces
Cultural heritage
Special collections
Sophus Tromholt Nordlandshandelsarkiver fra Bryggen Knud Knudsen
Karen-Christine Frieles privatarkiv
The Norwegian Language collections Print collections documenting the knowledge of the Norwegian language and names (~ 16 lorries) Electronic dictionaries (Bokmål and nynorsk) Collaboration: linguists, librarians, archivists, IT and property department.
The Norwegian LGBT Archive Document and resource senter for Norwegian queer and LGBT history. - commissioned to UiB Library - state budget - collect, document, digitise and communicate
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Cultural heritage and outreach
Making unique content
available to researchers and the
public
Statistikk for 2016: 119 485 besøk 599 864 sidevisninger 439 684 unike sidevisninger
Digital communication:Marcus, Instagram og Facebook
2686 følgere
Mest populære innlegg nådde 25 928 personer!
@uib_ubbspes 4456 følgere
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Collaboration with Bergen City Museum 41.000 paying visitors
Good national media coverage
Exhibition: The 1916 City Fire
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Thank you!