Just six months after its official launch (November 2008), ORBi, the
institutional repository of the University of Liège (ULg), has reached
12,000 deposits and gives access to the full texts of almost 9,000
publications! These impressive figures are the results of a voluntary Open
Access policy at the University of Liège, which has defined the "mandate
ULg", ie the obligation for all researchers to deposit in ORBi the
references of all scientific publications since 2002 and the full texts of
all scientific articles since the same year. Free access to them is
conditioned by respect for copyright. This success also reflects the very
positive reaction of by researchers regarding this policy and this new way
of visibility. ...
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
