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What is Open Access ? Open Access is defined as free access to scientific publications, enabling them to be reused and redistributed. In this way, scientific results are disseminated more widely, benefiting from reduced communication time and increased visibility.According to UNESCO, a publication is considered open access if :its content is…

 modified on 24/11/2025   |    Les Bibliothèques - Learning centers de l'UCLouvain
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 modified on 07/01/2026   |    Center for High Performance Computing and Mass Storage
There are several ways of doing Open Access, depending on whether or not you publish (and therefore go through a publishing process), and depending on whether or not you pay to make a publication accessible.There are different models of Open Access: The green Open access :  is the self-archiving of publications. This involves depositing …

 modified on 24/11/2025   |    Les Bibliothèques - Learning centers de l'UCLouvain
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 modified on 05/02/2025   |    Bibliothèque de droit
There are several options open to you for Open Access at UCLouvain:Deposit your works in the institutional repository DIAL.pr. When you deposit a work in DIAL.pr, you must fill in the bibliographic data and add the full text. You can then choose what type of access readers will have to your work: free access = open access - embargoed access (=…

 modified on 17/02/2025   |    Les Bibliothèques et Learning Centers de l'Université catholique de Louvain
AddressEuler BuildingAvenue Georges Lemaître, 4 - bte L4.05.01B - 1348 Louvain-la-NeuveBelgiumGPS coordinates : 50.66929, 4.624458How to reach our offices?Louvain-la-Neuve is a mostly pedestrian town located 30 kilometers South-East of Brussels, in the French-speaking part of Belgium. The town is easily reached by car, train or plane. By…

 modified on 26/09/2025   |    Mathematical Engineering (INMA)
    VALIBEL : Presentation and access to the database The majority of studies in which members of the Valibel - Discours et Variation center are involved take large corpora of attested linguistic data as their basis and as such place the speaker and the linguistic productions at the center of language as it is truly spoken. This…

 modified on 07/12/2024   |    Centre de recherche VALIBEL
Access to university housing requires regular and full-time enrollment at UCLouvain.However, online applications can already be submitted, even if university enrolment has not yet been completed. This will be verified at a later stage.For international students, your housing request will be processed once your enrollment authorization is received…

 modified on 15/04/2025   |    Logement
Find an open access journalIn addition to the criteria to be taken into account when choosing a journal that suits your research subject (audience, disciplinary or multidisciplinary, language, circulation, acceptance rate, etc.) and that complies with your legal and institutional obligations and those linked to your funding (Horizon Europe, FWB…

 modified on 30/01/2025   |    Les Bibliothèques et Learning Centers de l'Université catholique de Louvain
Some useful considerations:-Publishing in Open Access does not necessarily mean paying APCs!-Choose journals that do not require APCs like Full Open Access journals or Open Access Diamant journals.-We would like to draw your attention to the advisability of practising the rights retention policy (RRS), which will make it easier for you to publish…

 modified on 30/01/2025   |    Les Bibliothèques et Learning Centers de l'Université catholique de Louvain