News & Agendas

In April 2025, the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) introduced its Repository License Fee (RLF). These new fees, applied when authors add a CC-BY license to their manuscript in order to deposit it in an open archive, amount to $1,275 for journal articles and $400 for conference proceedings. Alain Schuhl, the CNRS's Deputy CEO for Science (DGDS) at the CNRS, warns of the abuses associated with this practice and recommends that his researchers do not pay the RLF.

Start the year off right by getting to know your library!
Several tours are organized for students at the start of the academic year, some of which even take the form of escape games. Don't hesitate to sign up! 

Have you just enrolled at university? We'd like to welcome you! Find out what we can offer you and download our checklist to get you ready for the new school year!

As part of the preparatory work for the Learning Center project, technical surveys will be conducted on Tuesday, September 9 in the A1 building.

On this occasion, the Philosophy and Communication and Sciences of Antiquity libraries will be closed all day.

We thank you for your understanding and invite you to anticipate your consultation or borrowing needs before this date.

Book store services will be interrupted on August 14 and 19 due to power cuts scheduled throughout these days. 

On July 8, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a proposed new policy aimed at capping the publication fees that scientific publishers can charge researchers funded by the NIH. This measure seeks to curb excessive profits made at the expense of the scientific community by major publishers, particularly through the use of "hybrid" journal models. The proposal reinforces the NIH's commitment to Open Science and aligns with their goal of promoting transparent and universally accessible research.

The Sciences Library will have to extend its closure until September 14 due to the B6b interior renovation work.

From June 30, to better meet your needs, we are undertaking electrical upgrades at the Polytech library: adding sockets and replacing lamps with LED lighting.

The library will remain open and all our services will be accessible, but some areas will be temporarily closed.s.
 

ULiège Library now offers a new tool to support your research: a Research Assistant powered by generative artificial intelligence and large language models.

Accessible as a new way to explore our catalogue, this Assistant allows you to ask research questions about academic topics in a natural and straightforward manner, just as you would with a colleague or a librarian.