Bernard Rentier: "All it takes is a few minutes of political courage"

OA is very easy to achieve. But only by University authorities. All it takes is a few minutes of political courage and let their research community know that any author's refereed, corrected, accepted final draft of any refereed journal article that is not in the Institutional Repository will be disregarded in any performance assessment within the University. It works. But it takes not just authority. It takes also a lot of preparation, information and incentives to convince everyone, because it works best if everybody understands that it is for their own good, for their own interest, and not only for the University's visibility. This is precisely why we created EOS (Enabling Open Scholarship; http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/j_6/accueil ), to convince Heads of Universities to jump that leap.