Frederick Friend on the LSE impact blog:
Open access to publicly-funded research journal articles has been growing steadily across the world over the past ten years, and the value of unrestricted use and re-use of research results to current and future researchers is widely acknowledged.
This month, Bernard Rentier, Rector of the University of Liège (Belgium) and president of Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS), explains the reasons behind the success of ORBi, his university’s open repository.
Researchers have no interest in limiting their readers, says Rentier.