The presence of many Belgium research organizations to the Berlin Declaration on Open access, and the creation of Immediate Deposit and Optional Access mandate at ULG in 2007, led to the Brussels Declaration on Open Access signed in 2012 by the Minister of research. This Declaration enabled Belgium to have a broad network of institutional open-access repositories by circulating the results to Belgian academic and scientific research.[3]
The BELSPO (Belgian Federal Science Policy Office) mandate was introduced on 21 November 2019. The policy aims at complying with the FAIR data principles in a more sustainable manner, and is applicable to digital data whose collection has been funded either partially or entirely by the BELSPO. The Data management plan (DMP) was to be integrated in March 2020.[6]
See also
Number of open access publications in various Belgian repositories, 2018
François Renaville; et al. (2012), L'Open Access en Belgique francophone Étude de la BICfB réalisée à la demande des Recteurs des universités et du F.R.S.-FNRS [Open Access in French-speaking Belgium: report by BICfB at the request of the Rectors of the Universities and the FRS-FNRS] (in French), Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de la Communauté française de Belgique, hdl:2268/124876
Swan, Alma (2015), Institutional Policy Implementation at the University of Liege, Belgium, PASTEUR4OA Case Study, doi:10.5281/zenodo.44308
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