U Liege Mandate Success and the Performance Review Connection

U Liege's Rector, Bernard Rentier, reports that over the past year deposits to the U. Liege repository (ORBi) grew from 10 to 40 thousand publications, 25 thousand of them full-text. According to ROAR, this is the 3rd highest growth rate among the world's thousand identified institutional repositories. Viewed 650 thousand times and downloaded 61 thousand times, these 40 thousand deposits coincide with the first year in which ORBi has served as U Liege's sole official means of submitting publications for performance review for academic promotion.