The OA Interviews: Bernard Rentier, Rector of the University of Liège

"...Rentier oversaw the creation of ULg’s own institutional repository (IR) — dubbed the Open Repository and Bibliography, or ORBi. This went live in November 2008, and the University’s researchers were invited to deposit all their papers in it. To help persuade them to do so Rentier began his own blog, and began a campaign of encouragement and exhortation. Moreover, determined that ORBi should capture all the research being produced at the University, Rentier also introduced a self-archiving mandate — which requires all ULg researchers to deposit their papers in ORBi. To further motivate compliance, Rentier announced that depositing papers in the repository underwent performance review."