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Free scientific information access
Why do we support the movement of the free access?
As holding them of the free scientific information access we think that it is necessary to guarantee accessibility for all with a scientific literature of quality and to guarantee the perenniality of this literature. We think:
- that it is not normal only one small number of editors (, , , ,…) monopolize a “market” with the detriment of smaller editors and adapt the knowledge produced and financed by the public authorities (see the Newspaper Information to know the statute of the reviews which you use and the bonds alternate);
- that it is not normal that the university institutions pay more and more expensive to reach the information which they produce;
- that search and the scientific knowledge must be available to perpetuity for an unlimited examination, its development or its refutation.
The free access to summer built by several statements which define it gradually (see ). The world of the scientific paper is in the moment of living a deep change of which it is difficult to provide for the exit. Among the actors of the scientific paper, the researchers, the teachers are implied as users of information (the scientific research cannot exist without scientific information) and as authors of this same information.
Ultimately, the free access:
- a greater visibility of our publications allows;
- develop the efforts authorized by the public authorities and deprived which finance our search;
- increase the exchanges between researchers;
- reduced the monopoly of the trading companies in scientific information circulation.
What we make to support the movement of the free access
- Our Vice-chancellor signed on March 30th, 2007 the statement of;
- our review BASIS is a review in free access (all fascicles), it is integrated into the gate PoPuPs (university Academy Wallonia-Europe) and is integrated into the ( off Open Access);
- since September 2007, we put in free access the theses defended to Gembloux (see ), they are all accessible via site Europe;
- we create, in collaboration with the University of Liege an institutional deposition () where all the items published in Gembloux since 2003 will be found;
- our catalog contains many periodicals in free access and our index of resources contains many links towards research tools of documents in free access;
- all the lesson of documentary methodology (see for example ) tackles the subject.
Some useful links
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- Free scientific and technical information access
- Public off Science
- DRIVER: Networking European Scientific Repositories
- Open Access
- Changes ( & SPARC)
Depositions of files
- (university Academy Wallonia-Europe)
- off Servers
- Chemical Physics Preprint Database
- Los Alamos Laboratory
- CERN server document
- HAL - Item in Line (CNRS)
- DART-Europe E-theses
Periodicals in free access
- off Open Access
- Central
- Medical
- Open J-Spoils
Research tools
- ( off St - )
- - Search engine of documents Open Access (… )
- Google - “Access to all the scientific literature” (not specifically Open Access)
- (Southampton )
- (data-processing primarily)
