Open access in Belgium

In Belgium, open access to scholarly communication accelerated after 2007 when the University of Liège adopted its first open-access mandate.

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] There are some 23 collections of scholarship in Belgium housed in digital open access repositories.

[4] They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that are free to read.

[5][6] The BELSPO (Belgian Federal Science Policy Office) mandate was introduced on 21 November 2019.