Re: Interview with Rector of University of Liege

[Sandy Thatcher <sandy.thatcher@alumni.princeton.edu>]

Assuming that not all liblicense followers subscribe to SCHOLCOMM 
also, I'll repost the same note I posted there in response to 
Richard's announcement:

Rentier certainly deserves to be included among the pioneers of 
OA journal publishing, and the mandate he has put in place likely 
is the most effective kind that can be used and should be 
emulated everywhere. He has little to say about OA for books, 
however, except noting that faculty are welcome to submit them 
also but are not required to do so. More needs to be done by 
leaders at his level to encourage the development of OA for books 
lest book content be artificially segregated from journal 
content. One such leader is the president of Athabasca University 
in Canada, who launched the university press there as a fully OA 
operation. Perhaps Richard will interview him at some point in 
the future.

Sandy Thatcher


>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