On 12 July 2024, ORBi topped the 100,000 milestone for open access publications, which means that they are accessible worldwide at a single click! This success demonstrates our commitment to the free and open dissemination of scientific knowledge.
Last month, more than 500 researchers submitted 1,042 publications. Of these, 76% contain full text and 76% are open access.
Thank you for your contribution!
Submitting your articles: a legal obligation since the FWB's Open Access decree
Thanks to a proactive policy and the involvement of our researchers, ULiège has been a pioneer in Open Access and is actively contributing to a more open science. Open Access increases the visibility of your work, encourages international collaborations and accelerates scientific advances.
Since 3 May 2018, this matter has been the subject of a decree by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (FWB). This decree sets out obligations for researchers, institutions or even the people/commissions responsible for evaluating publications in the event of appointment, promotion, etc.
What are the obligations of the decree?
- Researchers must deposit in ORBi articles resulting from research carried out in whole or in part with public funds originating in whole or in part from the FWB and published in periodicals appearing at least once a year.
- Articles must be submitted immediately after acceptance by a publisher.
- Access to articles from archived scientific periodicals must be immediately free at the initiative of the researcher.
- If a publisher imposes an embargo, this deferred access must not exceed 6 months for science, technology, human or veterinary medicine, and 12 months for the humanities and social sciences.
- During the embargo period, researchers may provide copies on request.
- The evaluation of individual or collective files is based on the lists of articles generated from the institutional digital archives and whose full text is available in open access in the archives according to the model appropriate for the specific context and to the exclusion of any other list.
Do you need help?
Do you have any questions about Open Access or need help depositing your articles? The ORBi team will be happy to help.