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Open access in Belgium
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<p>In <a href="/facts/Belgium/YKuMXP5j">Belgium</a>, <a href="/facts/Open_access/r7rLYN6C">open access</a> to scholarly communication accelerated after 2007 when the <a href="/facts/University_of_Li%25C3%25A8ge/YQBja3KQ">University of Liège</a> adopted its first <a href="/facts/Open-access_mandate/YUVkYfL8">open-access mandate</a>. The "Brussels Declaration" for open access was signed by officials in 2012. </p><p>The presence of many Belgium research organizations to the Berlin Declaration on Open access, and the creation of Immediate Deposit and Optional Access mandate at <a href="/facts/University_of_Li%25C3%25A8ge/YQBja3KQ">ULG</a> in 2007, led to the Brussels Declaration on Open Access signed in 2012 by the Minister of research. This Declaration enabled Belgium to have a broad network of institutional open-access repositories by circulating the results to Belgian academic and scientific research. </p>