Open Access in Belgium and elsewhere: sustained growth!!!

"In this month of April, ORBi [the repository at the University of Liège] has reached a new landmark: 60,000 references, of which over 36,000 (60%) are provided with full text versions (50% of them available on open access). An international visibility which is booming as we can observe on average over a thousand daily downloads which originate from all over the world! Open Access today: becoming more and more essential! Currently over 20% of the whole of the world's academic and scientific literature is already available on Open Access: 8.5% in periodicals on open access and 11.9% via institutional repositories (Björk, 2010), figures which are constantly growing...."