François Renaville

Mosa, Window of Visibility for Open Access Research in Belgium

A new tool is now live in the Belgian Open Access landscape: Mosa (https://www.mosa-research.be). Mosa aims to highlight Open Access research produced by scholars from Belgian and Luxembourgish institutions. More than 10 repositories are daily harvested in Mosa. Interface is in Dutch, English (default), French and German. Mosa currently contains more than 295,000 records inContinue reading “Mosa, Window of Visibility for Open Access Research in Belgium”

Open Access Week 2015 – “Open for Collaboration”

Open Access Week 2015 – “Open for Collaboration” Research impact through Open Access: explore new opportunities 21-22 October 2015 You are researcher, PhD student, postdoc, professor, assistant or simply interested by the topic? You want to know more and engage actively in providing Open Access to research results? Participate in the Open Access workshops, organizedContinue reading “Open Access Week 2015 – “Open for Collaboration””

Open Access Week @ ULB

Want to know more about what open access can do for you ? Participate to one of the information sessions taking place at Université Libre de Bruxelles during lunch time from 21 to 25 October: Find open access publications of quality Keep your copyright Open Access and FNRS Increase the impact of your publications with OAContinue reading “Open Access Week @ ULB”

I love open access

Following the publication in Le Monde newspaper of the article Savoirs. Un bien public convoité, [1] (Knowledge. A sought after public good) a community of university officials, teachers-researchers, publishers and library directors have wished to respond and express their support for open access to research results by publishing in Le Monde an opinion column entitledContinue reading “I love open access”

Green Publisher at ULB

The publishing imprint of ULB, Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles, is a Green Publisher according to the colours used by SHERPA/RoMEO : the publisher deposits the articles written by ULB authors, immediately upon publication, in the ULB institutional repository DI-fusion, providing Open Access without any embargo. This is done with articles published in collective books sinceContinue reading “Green Publisher at ULB”

IR ORBi has passed the benchmark of 50,000 references with full text

In July 2012, ORBi, the institutional repository of the University of Liège, has passed the benchmark of 50,000 references with full text, which represents close to 61% of the deposits! A great success which rewards the audacious gamble launched 5 years ago by the University of Liege, supported by a strong institutional mandate. It isContinue reading “IR ORBi has passed the benchmark of 50,000 references with full text”