Fwd: News from ORBi, the institutional repository of the University of Liege
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> From: Myriam Bastin <Myriam.Bastin -- ulg.ac.be>
> Date: June 26, 2009 4:13:36 AM EDT (CA)
> To: harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk, Leslie Carr <lac -- ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Tim
> Brody <tdb2 -- ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Subject: News from ORBi, the institutional repository of the University of
> Liege
>
> Dear sirs,
>
> Good news from Belgium relative to the evolution of the institutional
> repository of the University of Liege, ORBi.
> I send you below useful information.
> Thanks you very much for your attention.
>
> Myriam Bastin
> Librarian
> ORBi team
> orbi_at_misc.ulg.ac.be
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 26/06/2009
> 12,000 references in ORBi, the institutional repository of the University
> of Liège
> Just six months after its official launch (November 2008), ORBi, the
> institutional repository of the University of Liège (ULg), has reached
> 12,000 deposits and gives access to the full texts of almost 9,000
> publications! These impressive figures are the results of a voluntary Open
> Access policy at the University of Liège, which has defined the "mandate
> ULg", ie the obligation for all researchers to deposit in ORBi the
> references of all scientific publications since 2002 and the full texts of
> all scientific articles since the same year. Free access to them is
> conditioned by respect for copyright. This success also reflects the very
> positive reaction of by researchers regarding this policy and this new way
> of visibility.
> At the beginning of June 2009, a study afternoon on the development of
> ORBi and institutional Open Access mandates was held in presence of Mr Tom
> Cochrane, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Technology, Information and Learning
> Support of the Queensland University of Technology (Australia), first
> university in the world to have adopted a mandatory deposit policy.
> Another important step will be reached by the next academic year with ORBi
> as a unique source of information for academic assessments at the ULg
> (promotions, allocation of funds...).
> More information:
> ORBi - Open Repository and Bibliography (http://orbi.ulg.ac.be)
> Mr Tom Cochrane's presentation: "The open access mandate at Queensland
> University of Technology"
> (http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/files/Conference%20Tom%20Cochrane%20030609.pdf)
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