[GOAL] Re: Belgium: Funder's Green OA mandate for 2013

[Thierry CHANIER]

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.
> *
> *
>
> *How to Integrate University and Funder Open Access
> Mandates*<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/369-guid.html>
> *
> *
> *Optimize the NIH Mandate Now: Deposit Institutionally, Harvest
> Centrally*<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/344-guid.html>
> *
> *
> *Optimizing OA Self-Archiving Mandates: What? Where? When? Why?
> How?*<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html>
> *
> *
> *Which Green OA Mandate Is
> Optimal?*<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/494-guid.html>
>
> *
> *
> *Stevan Harnad*
>
> Bernard RENTIER
>> Rector of the Université de Liège
>> Vice-President of the FRS-FNRS
>> Chairman, Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS)
>>
>>
>



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Thierry Chanier
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Département de Linguistique
Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont 2)
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