Meeting of the UniGR Council at the University of Liège
The seven partners of the Université de la Grande Région met at the Château de Colonster (ULiege campus) to take stock of current collaborations and outline the future of the consortium.
As a public university open to the world and is anchored in the scientific, cultural and economic development of its region, the University of Liège relies on its three pillars: teaching, research and civic engagement.
ULiège trains responsible citizens who are provided with cutting-edge knowledge and critical thinking, are able to share knowledge and can push forward an increasingly complex world.
ULiège develops and promotes excellence in research, multidisciplinary and direct engagement with its instruction.
Global exposure is a top priority at the University of Liège. The institution offers a wide range of international mobility opportunities to students, researchers and staff, enabling them to enhance their cross-disciplinary skills and language knowledge.
ULiège: an experience of daily living. Located in 3 cities and 4 campuses, the university is a key player in terms of the environment and mobility.
Each year in October is held the Open Access Week, a week of international promotion of the movement of free access to scientific information, initiated in 2002. This year the University of Liège celebrates the 10th anniversary of the signature of the mandate making obligatory the integration of the references of the publications of its academics and scientists within ORBi. 10 years later, ULiège has a few newcomers to its family: PoPuPs, MatheO and DONum.
Open Access, the movement initiated in 2002 by the Budapest Open Access Initiative, is enjoying growing success. This movement, which aims to allow the widest possible dissemination of scientific information without any economic or other barrier, so as to facilitate the dissemination and development of knowledge, has, since 15 years, been joined worldwide by numerous academic institutions.
The University of Liège is part of the pioneers of the movement by becoming, in 2007, the 10th institution in the world to sign the mandate making the deposit of scientific references in its institutional directory obligatory. Called ORBi (Open and Repository Bibliography), the digital repertoire has become essential. The scientists and academics of the ULiège are indeed convinced of the interest of depositing their texts in Open Access, which improves their visibility but especially their referencing and their quotation rate.
Since its inception, the movement has grown and the institution's commitment to Open Access has been confirmed with the creation of new tools such as:
10 years is also the time for a review and to embark on a few statistics but it is especially the moment to put forward some impressive figures that underline more than ever the interest of such a movement.
Today, ORBi is:
These numbers are growing every year, demonstrating the value of adherence to this type of movement that allows, more than ever, researchers to make their research results accessible and visible to a larger audience.
ORBi - Open and Repository Bibliography
orbi@ULiege.be
The seven partners of the Université de la Grande Région met at the Château de Colonster (ULiege campus) to take stock of current collaborations and outline the future of the consortium.
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