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
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
To spell out in a little fuller detail the importance and power of the
nuances of the OA policy of Francophone Belgium:
1. All the Belgian Francophone universities are already mandating or
about to mandate full-text deposit.
2. The  mandate by FRS-FNRS, the Belgian Francophone research funder,
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
Congratulations Prof. Brentier on taking this bold and innovative step. Now we
should persuade funding agencies in other countries to take similar steps.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
Centre for Internet and Society
Bangalore, India
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
