Les barrages n’entravent jamais que momentanément le cours des rivières | Ouvertures immédiates / Bernard Rentier - Immediate openings

Google English: "Dams never only momentarily hinder the course of rivers

There are basically two points of view regarding open access to scientific publications, except for some researchers who think that the FWB's Open Access Decree will deprive them of their academic freedom, which is not in the least the case.

1) The first, supported by a large majority of the research community , is in favor of the decree. I would like to remind you that the main role of the decree is to reassure the researchers whose Institution wishes or requires that the publications produced within them be freely accessible as quickly as possible, but who fear the intimidation exercised on them by their publishers. . It offers them much needed legal certainty.

2) the second is carried by some publishers (in our case, the Association of Belgian Publishers, ADEB) who see in this process supported by the public authorities a threat to their business model and who practice intense lobbying at the against the decree...."