“It can be difficult for researchers to understand what are their author rights, what articles they can archive in Open Access… Fortunately, political decisions are taken across Europe to strongly authorize free dissemination of knowledge. In Belgium, Wallonia-Brussels Federation has presented a decree in order to authorize the Open Access deposit of publicly funded research. Moreover, the federal government plans to propose a bill in this regard in 2018. The preliminary draft decree defining an Open access policy for publicly funded scientific publications in Wallonia-Brussels Federation (FWB) has passed second reading by the FWB government. This preliminary draft decree proposed by the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Media Jean-Claude Marcourt is intended to allow scientific publications of publicly funded research to be freely shared and disseminated. This takes place in the context of the Open Science movement promoted by the FWB.”
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The right to share in Open Access
“It can be difficult for researchers to understand what are their author rights, what articles they can archive in Open Access… Fortunately, political decisions are taken across Europe to strongly authorize free dissemination of knowledge. In Belgium, Wallonia-Brussels Federation has presented a decree in order to authorize the Open Access deposit of publicly funded research. Moreover, the federal government plans to propose a bill in this regard in 2018. The preliminary draft decree defining an Open access policy for publicly funded scientific publications in Wallonia-Brussels Federation (FWB) has passed second reading by the FWB government. This preliminary draft decree proposed by the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Media Jean-Claude Marcourt is intended to allow scientific publications of publicly funded research to be freely shared and disseminated. This takes place in the context of the Open Science movement promoted by the FWB.”
Open Access Library (OALib)
“What is OALib? What is OALib Journal?
Open Access Library (OALib) consists of:
• the Search Engine, based on a database with metadata of Open Access (OA) papers
• the Journal with OALib Articles,
• the Index with metadata entries of external OA journal articles,
• the Repository with own OALib PrePrints as well as external preprints and postprints, all stored in one of the 322 OALib Disciplinary Repositories.
OALib is currently [July 2017] hosting links and metadata to more than 4,228,041 open access articles covering a wide range of academic disciplines. All full text articles from your search results are free to download.
OALib Journal is a scholarly, peer-reviewed, open access journal covering all subject areas in STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) as well as Social Sciences. The OALib Articles from the OALib Journal are stored in the Open Access Library (OALib).
The Open Access Library and its Journal are operated by Open Access Library Inc. …”
SAMP Open Archives Initiative | CRL
‘”The SAMP Open Archives initiative creates and maintains a collection of open access materials for the study of South Asia.”
ABSP Journal Open Access Article Repository – American Board of Sport Psychology
The American Board of Sport Psychology (ABSP) is relaunching its OA article repository in September 2016.