<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Congratulations Prof. Brentier on taking this bold and innovative step. Now we should persuade funding agencies in other countries to take similar steps.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Arun</span></div><div><span>[Subbiah Arunachalam]</span></div><div><span>Centre for Internet and Society</span></div><div><span>Bangalore, India</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "brentier@ulg.ac.be" <brentier@ulg.ac.be><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "GOAL@eprints.org" <GOAL@eprints.org> <br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 23 December 2011, 12:16<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [GOAL] Belgium: Funder's Green OA mandate for 2013<br> </font> <br>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).<br><br>FRS-FNRS is by far the main funder for basic research in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.<br><br>Bernard RENTIER<br>Rector of the Université de Liège<br>Vice-President of the FRS-FNRS<br>Chairman, Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>GOAL mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:GOAL@eprints.org"
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