Open access in Belgium
{{short description|Overview of the culture and regulation of open access in Belgium}}
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In Belgium, open access to scholarly communication accelerated after 2007 when the University of Liège adopted its first open-access mandate.{{citation |title=Open Access in Belgium |doi= 10.5281/zenodo.54750 |series= PASTEUR4OA Case Study |year=2015 |last1= Septon |first1= Monique |last2= Van Hee |first2= Freia }} The "Brussels Declaration" for open access was signed by officials in 2012.{{citation |url=https://openaccess.be/2012/10/22/brussels-declaration-on-open-access/ |title=Brussels Declaration on Open Access |year=2012 |via= Openaccess.be }}
The presence of many Belgium research organizations to the Berlin Declaration on Open access, and the creation of Immediate Deposit and Optional Access mandate at ULG in 2007, led to the Brussels Declaration on Open Access signed in 2012 by the Minister of research. This Declaration enabled Belgium to have a broad network of institutional open-access repositories by circulating the results to Belgian academic and scientific research.{{Cite web|url=https://www.openaire.eu/item/belgium|title=Belgium|website=www.openaire.eu|access-date=2020-01-20}}
Repositories
There are some twenty-three collections of scholarship in Belgium housed in digital open access repositories.{{cite web |url= http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php?cContinent=Europe#Belgium |title= Belgium |work= Directory of Open Access Repositories |publisher= University of Nottingham |location= UK |access-date= 16 March 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090206084105/http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php?cContinent=Europe#Belgium |archive-date= 6 February 2009 |url-status= dead }} They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that are {{free access}} free to read. The Université catholique de Louvain, KU Leuven's "Lirias", Ghent University's "Academic Bibliography", and University of Liège's "Orbi" hold many publications.{{cite web |url= http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/access-by-region/europe-and-north-america/belgium/ |work=Global Open Access Portal |title=Belgium |publisher=UNESCO |access-date= 18 March 2018 }}{{citation |url= https://openaccess.be/open-access-in-belgium/open-access-repositories/ |title=Open Access Repositories |work=Openaccess.be |access-date= 18 March 2018 }}
BELSPO open research data mandate
The BELSPO (Belgian Federal Science Policy Office) mandate was introduced on 21 November 2019. The policy aims at complying with the FAIR data principles in a more sustainable manner, and is applicable to digital data whose collection has been funded either partially or entirely by the BELSPO. The Data management plan (DMP) was to be integrated in March 2020.
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{citation |author= Charles-Henry Nyns |title= Open Access and Institutional Repositories in Belgium |url= http://communia-project.eu/node/124.html |work=Communia: the European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain |year= 2010 }}
- {{citation |title=OA Interviews: Bernard Rentier, Rector of the University of Liège |url=https://poynder.blogspot.com/2011/06/oa-interviews-bernard-rentier-rector-of.html |author=Richard Poynder |work=Open and Shut? |location=UK |via=BlogSpot |year=2011 }}
- {{citation |author= François Renaville|display-authors=etal|title= L'Open Access en Belgique francophone Étude de la BICfB réalisée à la demande des Recteurs des universités et du F.R.S.-FNRS |trans-title=Open Access in French-speaking Belgium: report by BICfB at the request of the Rectors of the Universities and the FRS-FNRS |publisher=Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de la Communauté française de Belgique |language=fr |year= 2012 |hdl=2268/124876}}
- {{citation |title=Institutional Policy Implementation at the University of Liege, Belgium |doi= 10.5281/zenodo.44308 |series= PASTEUR4OA Case Study |year=2015 |last1= Swan |first1= Alma }}
- {{cite book |chapter= Belgium |author= Walt Crawford |title=Gold Open Access by Country 2012-2017 |url=https://waltcrawford.name/goaj.html |publisher=Cites & Insights Books |location= US |year= 2018 }} {{free access}}
External links
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- {{citation |url=https://openaccess.be/open-access-in-belgium/ |title=Open Access in Belgium |work=Open Access Belgium: Promoting Open Science |publisher=Ghent University Library and {{illm|University of Liège Library|fr|Bibliothèques de l'université de Liège}} }}. (Overview guide)
- [https://openaccess.be/open-access-per-subject-area/ Links to resources by subject]: architecture, astronomy, biology, chemistry, economics, engineering, humanities, informatics, information technology, law, medicine, pharmacy, physics, political science, psychology, social sciences.
- [https://openaccess.be/belgian-open-access-bibliography/ Belgian Open Access Bibliography]
- {{cite web |url= https://www.openaire.eu/oa-in-belgium |title= OA in Belgium |work= Open Access in Practice: EU Member States |publisher=OpenAIRE }}
- {{cite web |work=Registry of Open Access Repositories |location=UK |url= http://roar.eprints.org/view/geoname/geoname.html |title= Browse by Country: Europe: Belgium }}
- {{cite web |url= http://doaj.org |title=(Search: Country of Publisher: Belgium) |work= Directory of Open Access Journals |publisher= Infrastructure Services for Open Access |location=UK }}
- {{cite web |url= https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.belgium |title=(Belgium) |work=Open Access Tracking Project |oclc= 1040261573 |publisher=Harvard University |quote=News and comment from the worldwide movement for open access to research |editor=Peter Suber }}
- {{cite web |url= http://roarmap.eprints.org/view/country/ |title=Browse by Country: Belgium |work=ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies |publisher=University of Southampton |location=UK }}
- {{cite web |url=https://sparceurope.org/membership/members/ |title=Our members: Belgium |publisher=SPARC Europe |work=Sparceurope.org |quote=Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition }}
- [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSJAzi8EW3PXBBrYJTDSOw Open Knowledge Belgium] (videos).
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