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

Thu Dec 29 16:58:45 GMT 2011

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,
is hence reinforcing the institutional deposit mandates, increasing
the incentives for compliance, with the two kinds of mandates
(institutional and funder) reinforcing one another.

3. The Immediate-Deposit/Optional Access (ID/OA) mandate allows
full-text to be deposited either as OA or as Closed Access (if an
author elects to honor a publisher embargo on OA), but, either way,
the deposit must be done immediately upon publication.
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html

4. The institutional repository software at the Belgian universities
has been configured to only allow full-text deposits, irrespective of
whether they are OA or Closed Access.

5. For Closed Access deposits, the software also provides the
automated email-eprint-request Button which allows individual users
webwide to request a single copy for research purposes -- and for
authors to provide it -- with just one click each. (Over 60% of
journals, and virtually all the top journals, already endorse
immediate, unembargoed OA self-archiving, so Closed Access and the
Button are only relevant for at most 40% of deposits.)

6. Button-mediated access is not OA, but it is "Almost-OA," to tide
over research needs during publisher OA embargoes: It allows immediate
full-text deposit to be mandated and provided without any exceptions
and without any legal or copyright obstacles.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/

7. Belgium is a small country, and in the Francophone portion, the
universities adopted  ID/OA mandates before the funder did. In other
countries, especially where there are many universities and research
institutions, funders have adopted mandates before institutions.

8. Institutions are the universal providers of research, whether
funded or unfunded.

9. Hence funder mandates can generate even more OA than just the OA
for the research they fund -- by mandating institutional deposit
(rather than institution-external deposit), as FRS-FNRS has
effectively done:

10. Once the full-text is deposited (once and only once),
institutionally, deposits (or their metadata with links) can be
exported automatically to any number of central repositories, or
central repositories can harvest or import them, for navigation and
search.

11. Funder mandates that require institutional deposit benefit from
institutional monitoring to ensure compliance with the grant's deposit
requirement.

12. Funder mandates that require institutional deposit also motivate
institutions that have not yet mandated deposit to adopt mandates for
all their research output, funded and unfunded.

Both institutions and funders worldwide would benefit from adopting
the Belgian model to make their institutional and funder mandates
convergent and mutually reinforcing.
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/369-guid.html

Stevan Harnad

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:01 AM, <brentier at ulg.ac.be> wrote:
>
> 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 FRS-FNRS "mandate" will be fully effective for the 2013 call.
>
> The policy at University of Liege (ULg) is that no deposit can be made technically if it has been published from 2002 on and if it is not full text. It is physically impossible to file in metadata only, ORBi (the IR) will reject the deposit. Hence, although non-full text deposits do exist in ORBi, they can only correspond to papers published earlier than 2002.
>
> In other words, in response to your question, only fully text postings are considered as published work for evaluation at ULg. This is the policy that will be followed at FRS-FNRS as soon as all IRs will adopt this policy. The fact that FRS-FNRS will impose this rule is definitely going to be a major incentive in imposing such a policy in all institutions.
>
> Best regards and happy New Year!
> Bernard Rentier
>
>
>
> Le 28 déc. 2011 à 09:21, Thierry CHANIER <thierry.chanier at univ-bpclermont.fr> a écrit :
>
> > 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)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thierry Chanier
> > Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Langage (LRL)
> > Département de Linguistique
> > Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont 2)
> > thierry.chanier at univ-bpclermont.fr
> > Tel : +33 3 4 73 34 68 39
> >
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