Dr Norbert Lossau is the Director of Göttingen State and University Library (SUB Göttingen), Germany, one of the five largest research libraries in Germany, founded in 1734. He is member of various national and international steering committees and advisory boards, among others the Main Committee for Research Libraries and the Sub-Committee for Information Management at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Beirat Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, the Executive Board of the German Initiative for Network Information (DINI), SPARC Europe Executive Board, the European Research Libraries organisation LIBER Board, the new international organisation COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) Board Chairman, the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) Board, the D-Grid Advisory Board and the Springer SBM European Library Advisory Board. Currently he is the scientific coordinator of the European project OpenAIRE, implementing the Open Access pilot of the European Commission and has been one of the founders of the German national information platform on Open Access (www.open-access.net). His areas of activity include advanced digital services development, new paradigms in scientific publishing and communication, university-wide strategies for scientific information, eScience/e-Humanities and international collaboration.
المبادرات العربية في مجال الوصول الحر Arab Initiatives of Open Access