Sigrun Eckelmann
Program Director, Academic Libraries & Information Systems
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Knowledge Exchange (KE) is a co-operative effort among four European partners—Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and SURF—that supports the use and development of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure for higher education and research. This presentation aims to report on the recent outcome of the KE network.
The principal areas of activity are:
- Initiatives addressing the European Commission/European Union
- Interoperability of digital repositories
- Libraries in the digital age
- Licensing
- Open Access
- Primary Research Data
- Virtual Research Environments