Dear Thierry,
In the French speaking community of Belgium (also called the Wallonia-Brussels
Federation), the most advanced IR policy is that of Liege University. The
others, mainly at Brussels and Louvain, are moving ahead and should be fully
mandated by 2013, this is the reason why the FRS-FNRS mandate will be fully
effective for the 2013 call.
The policy at University of Liege (ULg) is that no deposit can be made
technically if it has been published from 2002 on and if it is not full text.
It is physically impossible to file in metadata only, ORBi (the IR) will reject
the deposit. Hence, although non-full text deposits do exist in ORBi, they can
only correspond to papers published earlier than 2002.
In other words, in response to your question, only fully text postings are
considered as published work for evaluation at ULg. This is the policy that
will be followed at FRS-FNRS as soon as all IRs will adopt this policy. The
fact that FRS-FNRS will impose this rule is definitely going to be a major
incentive in imposing such a policy in all institutions.
Best regards and happy New Year!
Bernard Rentier
Le 28 d?c. 2011 ? 09:21, Thierry CHANIER thierry.chanier at
univ-bpclermont.fr a ?crit :
Dear all,
I am also very happy of this news and the achievement of Bernard
Rentier's work.
But I need another information to appreciate the extent of this result.
If I correctly understand this mandate, evaluation of the research's
institution or the researcher's work when s/he wants to apply for a
funding will be made out information which appears in his/her
institutional repository.
But does this imply that publicatons will be deposit in the IR or only
metadata (notices) about publications ?
In France (again for example), the initial mandate (2006) for deposit
has been completely diverted because in many places open archives are
full of notices without full-text articles deposit (look in Hal, the
ratio may be 3, 4 notices for one full-text deposit).
Is this a possibility in Belgium ? If yes, what can we do against this
divertion ?
Cordialement
Thierry Chanier
Quoting Stevan Harnad amsciforum at gmail.com:
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:46 AM, brentier at 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*:
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,
but it also
(2) helps integrate institutional and funder mandates,
(3) ensuring that deposit is made,
(4) ensuring that deposit is made in the author's institutional repository
(rather than in diverse institution-external repositories),
(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 and
(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.
*
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*How to Integrate University and Funder Open Access
Mandates*http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/369-guid.html
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*Optimize the NIH Mandate Now: Deposit
