ULiège Library and RISE are organizing the third edition of Open Science Day on Thursday, November 27, 2025.
Don't miss this event to discuss Open Science practices with your peers and (re)discover innovative initiatives and tools already deployed or under development at the University of Liège.
This edition of Open Access Week is dedicated to researchers and their need for guidance through open access publication models and projects.
Join together, take action, and raise awareness about the importance of open knowledge sharing
Free participation, mandatory registration.
In April 2025, the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) introduced its Repository License Fee (RLF). These new fees, applied when authors add a CC-BY license to their manuscript in order to deposit it in an open archive, amount to $1,275 for journal articles and $400 for conference proceedings. Alain Schuhl, the CNRS's Deputy CEO for Science (DGDS) at the CNRS, warns of the abuses associated with this practice and recommends that his researchers do not pay the RLF.
On July 8, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a proposed new policy aimed at capping the publication fees that scientific publishers can charge researchers funded by the NIH. This measure seeks to curb excessive profits made at the expense of the scientific community by major publishers, particularly through the use of "hybrid" journal models. The proposal reinforces the NIH's commitment to Open Science and aligns with their goal of promoting transparent and universally accessible research.
ORBi's alignment with the requirements of the Open Access Decree of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, both in terms of the article deposit and the evaluation of researchers within the University of Liège.
This new platform addresses the F.R.S.-FNRS’s objective of enhancing the visibility and accessibility of scientific publications from the five universities of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels (FWB).
The University of Liège's Open Science Day, held on 7 November, brought together more than eighty participants to discuss innovative initiatives promoting the opening up of science to all. The event highlighted ULiège's commitments and the diversity of projects undertaken by its community, reflecting the impact of open science on research, education and society.
Last December, an article in Nature magazine announced that, in 2023 alone, 10,000 articles had been withdrawn from several scientific journals due to fraud. This figure is just the tip of the “Fake Science” iceberg.
The proliferation of questionable, if not fraudulent, articles calls into question the very relevance of the prevailing economic models for disseminating research.
€493,935 were paid by researchers in 2023 as APC (Article Processing Charges), an average of €2,297 per article! This represents an increase of 12.8% compared with 2022. Colossal sums lost for scientific research. However, solutions do exist to bring the bill down.
L'ULiège vous invite à la 2e édition de l'Open Science Day le 7 novembre 2024. Cet événement offre l'opportunité aux membres de la communauté ULiège d’échanger autour de leurs pratiques de Science Ouverte et de (re)découvrir certains outils, nouvelles fonctionnalités ou initiatives développées ou en chantier à l’ULiège en la matière.
Deux formats seront proposés : des présentations longues (20 min) pour explorer en profondeur des projets scientifiques, et des présentations flash (5 min) axées sur des solutions pratiques.
Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, SAGE, Wiley et Wolters Kluwer sont visés par une plainte pour pratiques anticoncurrentielles. Les éditeurs sont accusés d’avoir mis en place de commun accord un système dont les trois composants principaux seraient chacun illégaux en vertu de l’article 1 de la loi antitrust (loi Sherman).
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.
