On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:46 AM, <brent...@ulg.ac.be> wrote:
It is my pleasure to announce that the Board of Administrators of
the FRS-FNRS (Fund for Scientific Research in French-speaking
Belgium) has officially decided to use exclusively Institutional
Repositories as sources of bibliographic data in support of grant or
fellowship submission (except for foreign applicants) starting in
2013 (strongly encouraged in 2012).
FRS-FNRS is by far the main funder for basic research in the
Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
 I am sure that many readers will not quite realize the significance of
this development in Belgium, so I would like to spell it out:
This represents the first instance of extending one of the key features of
Professor Rentier's "Liege model"  research institution repository deposit
(ID/OA) mandate to a research funder.
The Liege model institutional mandate is to (i) require deposit and, in order to
ensure compliance, to (ii) designate institutional repository deposit as the
sole mechanism for submitting publications for institutional performance review.
The FRS-FNRS is the research funding council for French-speaking Belgium. Its
Flemish-speaking counterpart, FWO, mandated OA deposit in 2007, but, like most
funder mandates, it did not specify where to deposit, and did not provide any
system for monitoring and ensuring compliance:Â http://roarmap.eprints.org/57/
FRS-FNRS has has now designated institutional repository deposit as the sole
mechanism for submitting publications in support of a research funding
application.
This one stipulation has six major knock-on benefits: It not only:
(1) extends the Liege institutional mandate's compliance/monitoring
clause to funder mandates,Â
but it alsoÂ
(2) helps integrate institutional and funder mandates,Â
(3) ensuring that deposit is made,Â
(4) ensuring that deposit is made in the author's institutional repository
(rather than in diverse institution-external repositories),Â
(5) encouraging institutions that have not yet done so to adopt deposit
mandates, so as to complement funder mandates for all institutional
research output, funded and unfunded andÂ
(6) ensuring that institutional and funder mandates are convergent and
mutually reinforcing rather than divergent and competitive, with deposits
for both mandates being made institutionally, and with institutions hence
monitoring and ensuring compliance with funder mandates.
Bravo FRS-FNRS! Let us hope other research funders world-wde will adopt (or
upgrade to) the Belgian model.
How to Integrate University and Funder Open Access Mandates
Optimize the NIH Mandate Now: Deposit Institutionally, Harvest Centrally
Optimizing OA Self-Archiving Mandates: What? Where? When? Why? How?
Which Green OA Mandate Is Optimal?
Stevan Harnad
Bernard RENTIER
Rector of the Université de Liège
Vice-President of the FRS-FNRS
Chairman, Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS)
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