Interview with Rector of University of Liege

["Richard Poynder" <richard.poynder@gmail.com>]

In May 2007 the University of Liege created an institutional 
repository called ORBi (the Open Repository and Bibliography).

The following year the University introduced a self-archiving 
mandate that requires faculty members to deposit copies of all 
their research papers in the repository.

To encourage compliance, the University announced that depositing 
papers in the repository was henceforth the sole mechanism for 
submitting them to be considered when researchers underwent 
performance review. Work not posted in ORBi would not count.

What was the reasoning behind these decisions, and what has been 
the result?

Bernard Rentier, the Rector of the University of Liege, answers 
these and more questions in an interview posted on Open & Shut?

http://bit.ly/mM0TRg