Excerpt #1

"GOLD OPEN ACCESS

BELSPO will contribute to researcher APC requirements for publication in OA journals. These APC can be paid out of BELSPO research grants under the following conditions :

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•   In the case of books, collected volumes, proceedings and other academic publishing venues, basic technical information and peer review procedures have to be transparent on the website of the publishing venue (…)

• Maximum grant funds retrievable for full OA monographs amount to 6000 €.16 This amount

  can be adjusted per decision of the Federal Open Access Strategy Committee."

Excerpt #2

"GREEN OPEN ACCESS

PUBLICATIONS

Publications, or edited research results which are destined for dissemination, comprising articles (pre-prints, post-prints or publisher versions), books, book chapters, catalogues, conference proceedings, reports, bachelor, master and doctoral theses, reviews, working papers and lectures (See Implementation Note 1) will be deposited in an OA repository, such as BELSPO's central Orfeo repository21, on an ID/OA (immediate deposit – optional access) basis. (Green OA)22 : the deposit of the publication’s reference, metadata23 and full text is compulsory, even if true Open Access is not possible due to exceptional protection or embargoes as detailed below. Exceptional protection may be required for quality, strategic, security, commercial (patent-related) or privacy reasons approved

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by the Orfeo Committee.24 This will not prevent said deposits from being available in full text to the Orfeo administration staff at both BELSPO and implicated research institutions through intranet (with login and password) under the legal exception of public communication for teaching and scientific research.

If no protection or embargo applies, deposited publications will freely and irrevocably be made accessible to the public to be read, downloaded and printed, but also to be copied, distributed, searched, linked, crawled and mined and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship.

It is required that all said publications be deposited, either in BELSPO’s central Orfeo institutional OA repository, in the author’s research organisation’s own institutional OA repository, or in the institutional OA repository of a co-funding research partner providing its content can be linked to Orfeo or harvested by Orfeo through the OAI-PMH protocol."

Excerpt #3

"Monographs will be published under the CC BY or CC BY-NC- SA licenses.27 A monograph embargo duration will freely be negotiated with the journal. As soon as embargoes are expired, the researcher will complete the metadata in the repository without delay."