Thesis submission made easier Submission on ORBi of theses currently being defended at ULiège has been facilitated by data exchanges between ORBi and the PhD administration tool :
Automatic creation of the thesis record in the PhD student’s myORBi account using data from the PhD management tool
Automatic addition of the ORBi link required to validate the thesis in the PhD management tool
Addition of the IdRef in publication data and on author profile pages. IdRef (Identifiants et Référentiels pour l'Enseignement supérieur et la Recherche developed by ABES, Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur, France) provides unique identifiers for authors, researchers, and institutions in higher education and research.
Improvements
Homepage: behind the “References” and “Open Access” sections, references are displayed sorted in descending order of submission date
Author profile: label modification for the most significant publications selected by the author
Addition of EUPL and MIT licenses for computer developments
Modification of the tag list functionality
Modification of the ULiège author check when there's more than 500 authors
20/01/2026
Improvements
Export: Improvement of LinkedIn sharing
MyORBi: Improvement of display for references being processed (modification, OCR)
Deposit: Addition of a list of publisher names for relevant fields
Admin: possibility of adding a Creative Commons license in admin
Bug fixes
Indexing: correction of a recent bug preventing the indexing of certain references
License: correction of a bug requiring a double license signature
Export: correction of links in citations
Admin: correction of the duplicate processing process
02/12/2025
Improvements
Statistics: Cleaning up statistics to remove views and downloads made by bots.
Admin: Job to identify files deposited as full text with very little or no content
Search form: ASJC codes added
Cookies: modification of the Matomo script.
21/10/2025
Improvements
Journals Database: addition of ASJC classification (Scopus)
Admin: endpoint added to receive the status of a thesis from Penelope
ORBilu: Publication lists: WoS citations and h-index added
ORBi UMONS: Repository: “Tag” field added
Bug fixes
Search: Fixed a bug that occurred when filtering using facets if the search contained several terms separated by OR
Submission: Fixed a bug when searching for an internal author
29/09/2025
Bug fixes
Compliance of OAI-PMH output for OpenAire (inpress, doctype, accessRights)
Fix in OAI-PMH output
Fixed a bug preventing the archiving of references with an email address for an external author
MyIndicators: fixed a title label
Myindicators: fixed a bug preventing the display of the HEC graph
Jobscheduler: job allowing ORBi statistics to be sent to RADIUS scheduled once a month
02/09/2025
Improvements
OCR: Improvements to the OCR request process (emails, cancellation procedure, OCR request for a reference being modified)
Publication lists: HEC report: correction of the title of the HEC Liège Academic Journal Guide
OAI-PMH output: Improvement of OpenAire output (inpress, doctype, accessRights, Horizon Europe identifier
Jobscheduler: Correction of the number of requests per second to the Scopus API for the GetScopusCitations job so as not to exceed the authorized limits
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug that prevented book details from being saved when modifying the document type
25/07/2025
Improvements
Submission: Improvement of information messages relating to the FWB OA decree
Submission: Added a link to Open Policy Finder in the full-text repository to inform depositors about publishers' self-archiving policies
Submission: Improvement of tag selection
Submission: the “peer reviewed” field becomes “Peer reviewed/Selection committee” for communications at a symposium or conference
Deposit: Searches in authority lists no longer take accents into account.
Deposit: The “peer reviewed” field becomes “peer reviewed/Selection Committee” for communications at a symposium or conference.
Export: Addition of the ORBi handle in exports in RIS and BibTex formats.
API: Modification of the orbi/rest page to link to a specific documentation page
Admin: Improvement of Journals Alert
Admin: Option to manually add coverage years for journals in the scientific journal database
Bug fixes
Export: Fixed the “in press” notation in APA citations
Admin: Fixed a bug preventing filtering by publisher in the scientific journal database
10/06/2025
New features
ORBi adapts to the FWB Open Access decree This impacts:
deposit: open-access deposit (with the possibility of limited embargo) has been made compulsory for articles published since 2018
publications lists: from 1st September, only publications complying with the decree will be displayed in publications lists.
Myindicators: display of a confirmation icon when copying the link
Update of Scopus metrics 2024 and Q1 Scimago
Bug fixes
Correction of an error occurring when moving a file
Correction in the OAI-PMH output
27/05/2025
Improvements
Cookie consent manager: switch to Orejime (Open source)
Modification to prevent indexing of empty profile pages
17/03/2025
New features
Creation of a short URL (https://orbi.uliege.be/decree_not_compliant?uid=xxxxxxx) linking to references that do not comply with the FWB OA decree
Improvements
Advanced search form: disregard accents when displaying suggestion lists
Detailed reference: correct spelling of “detailed” label
MyIndicators: standardization of document types
MyIndicators: addition of last Scimago update year in “Proportion of articles in Q1 Scimago” graph
Bug fixes
Statistics: corrected query method for displaying statistics
Facets : Correction of French ODD display
26/11/2024
Improvements
Use of the "Dataset" metadata: availability of a dataset added as a search filter in the query form and in facets. Clear display of the availability of a dataset linked to the reference in the search results and in the publication lists.
Use of the "Sustainable Development Goal" metadata: SDG added as a search filter in the query form and in the facets.
Search: results sorted by descending number of citations
Admin: Daily alert listing references added or modified with a linked dataset.
Bug fixes
OAI-PMH: correction of a typo
Submission: fix display in the information box for step 3, "Which access should I choose?"
Organisations : Metadata clean-up : Country code in square brackets removed from label
Simple search: Full-text search added to “all fields” search
Bug fixes
MyIndicator: Missing theses in “Theses as promoter” chart
21/10/2024
New features
MyIndicator: “Doctoral theses as promoter” graphic added (for queries relating to one or more ULiège member identifiers)
Admin: Alert of newly-registered representatives on ORBi, making it possible to offer them specific assistance
Improvements
API REST : Data added
Admin : improved modification of archived references for data from lists
01/10/2024
New features
Jobscheduler: Sends reminders to authors for publications marked as “in press” so that the year of publication is updated as soon as possible
Improvements
MyIndicators: For all Scimago charts, added a link to the list of Q1 articles.
Submission: added help message for “Additional URL” field
MyIndicators: correction of the proportion of Q1 Scimago by limiting to references whose year of publication is covered by Scimago
Admin: admin modification to the dc.description.academy field
Bug fixes
Submission: corrected display of file modification button
Jobscheduler: fixed unclosed context in IndexAPI job
26/08/2024
New features
OpenAlex Citations OpenAlex citations have been added to ORBi. You can now see them:
in the detailed display of a publication
in the publications lists (number of citations and H-index)
in the indicators
OpenAlex is a scientific publications open archive created by OurResearch, a non-profit organization that offers a wide range of tools to support OpenScience.
Improvements
PsyArxiv added to list of preprint servers in FNRS report
Myindicators: spelling corrections to caption labels
MyIndicators: OpenAlex citation color change
Bug fixes
Publication lists: fixed calculation of citations in bibliometric synthesis following the addition of OpenAlex citations
Statistics: Fixed recording of statistics
09/07/2024
New features
Search: Advanced search functionality
Improvements
Submission: Enable import of references with few available data (DOI NISO)
DB Journals: Q1 Scimago 2023 data added
DB Journals: Improved journal data to facilitate matching during publication import
Export: CSV export improved so that data containing a line break is correctly handled by Excel
Bug fixes
MyIndicators: fixed a bug displaying the chart “Publications in HEC Liège Academic Journal Guide” for Famous scholars
Submission: Fixed a bug that prevented the form from going to the second page if there were too many authors.
Repository: fixed bug preventing display of a reference in the interface
BDD journals: Correction of ISSN in Scopus and Scimago data
19/06/2024
Improvements
Submission and detailed display: "Research Center/Unit" field label updated
Submission: improved labelling of the "Dataset" field
Reports: update of CiteScore data
Search results: CSV export improved to correct incompatibilities with some Excel versions
Profile: permanent display of "Activate your ORCID" button
Admin: possibility of modifying alumni data in admin panel added
Bug fixes
Submission: fixed bug preventing submission of a reference with a high number of authors
MyIndicators: fixed a bug inducing erroneous statistics for famous scholars
24/04/2024
Improvements
Publication lists: added ULiège member drop-down list for “Promoter” and “First/last author” fields
MyIndicators: improved display of Scimago charts
Admin: added a monthly alert listing references containing an unverified DOI
Admin: deletion of obsolete jobs
Bug fixes
Detailed display: ORBi URL added to APA citation for “Reports” references
09/04/2024
Improvements
OAI-PMH output: improved document type mapping in FNRS mets/mods output
MyORBi: removal of empty profile pages from Google referencing
Bug fixes
MyORBi: fixed bug preventing ORCID from being linked to ORBi profile
Admin: correction of a bug preventing the import of a bictel thesis into ORBi via the admin batch import tool
26/03/2023
New features
Search: export to CSV format (for spreadsheets) of a search result for anonymous users and identified users (the number of results and exported data being greater for the latter).
Improvements
Deposit: addition of an information link concerning the ORBi charter
Detailed display: display the number of documents available for the reference
MyIndicators: increased default selection of publication date range
MyIndicators: CSV export added for five graphs (h-index, citations, average citations, co-author affiliations and articles with reviewing)
11/03/2024
Improvements
Deposit: default selection of ULiège affiliation instead of CHU affiliation
MyIndicators: added new data in the CSV export of the chart "Publications in A or A+ or B journals of the HEC academic guide".
MyIndicators: added CSV export for graphs "Number of publications in Q1 scimago" and "Proportion of articles in Q1 Scimago".
Bug fixes
Admin: fixed bug preventing automatic import of Bictel license via admin batch import tool
MyIndicators: modified handling of data with commas in the "OA rate with evolution over time" graph, to enable correct display in CSV export
OAI-PMH: correction of bugs generating errors during OAI indexing of ORBi references
05/03/2024
Improvements
Myindicators: added csv data export for "Publications as (co-)first or (co-)last author" and "Most frequent keywords" graphs.
MyIndicators: added data to csv export of "Top 20 most cited PR articles" chart.
Myindicators: changed sorting order of Q1 scimago charts (sorted by descending number of articles rather than alphabetically by research field).
Bug fixes
Myindicators: fixed a bug concerning the export of the URL of an indicators page, which rendered a result with the graph "Publications as (co-)first or (co-)last author" empty.
MyIndicators: fixed a bug that prevented the user from saving an indicator page as a pdf file via the web browser.
21/02/2024
Improvements
Submission and MyORBi: default display of ULiège affiliation instead of CHU affiliation in the list of authors in the submission and in the profile.
MyORBi: automatic addition of a ULiège member's ORCID in publications and in the OAI output when the ORCID is created.
Myindicators: clarification of STM/HEC/SHS sector headings in the MyIndicators tool.
Admin: Addition of ISSN and E-ISSN data in the periodicals database, though incompatible with Scimago data.
Bug fixes
Submission: correction of an error generated when changing the document type from "Dissertation/thesis" to "Article" when the form contains jury members.
Repository: fixed a bug preventing correct retrieval of a Pubmed reference when importing via DOI.
Submission and admin: code enhancement to avoid incorrect display in "Enrichment" status of publications awaiting signature when submission has been made in admin via the epeople tool.
Admin: fixed an error preventing complete indexing of ORBi via the ImportItemsToOAI job.
Admin: corrected a bug generating an error when displaying the last page in the epeople admin tool.
06/02/2024
Bug fixes
Emails: resending of unsent emails following the ULiège network outage on the morning of 30/01/2024
Deposit: correction of a bug causing incorrect references to be retrieved from pubmed when importing via DOI
MyORBi: fixed bug preventing profile info from being displayed when significant publications are selected
Statistics: corrected number of views for Ireland in global statistics
Repository and detailed display: updated import code for Scopus CSV files and corrected references imported from Scopus prior to this update
23/01/2024
New features
MyORBi: MyIndicators MyIndicators enables everyone to analyse their own scientific output, that of a group and even that of the institution by bringing together a set of indicators from bibliographic databases on one page. This tool, developed in-house by researchers and ULiège Library, generates personalised statistics in real-time based on a search of publications registered in ORBi. LEARN +
Improvements
Admin: export of journal database
Admin: improved content of alerts sent when a curation task fails
Bug fixes
Reports: correction of a bug generating an error when creating some reports
Repository: fixed a bug preventing the import of some references via a bibtex file
OAI: correction of a bug generating an incorrect "in press" publication date
Admin: deletion of copies of a reference erroneously blocked in modification mode
12/12/2023
New features
Home: ULiège author selection in the author simple search
Improvements
Statistics: addition of compilatio.net to the list of bots and correction of statistics for 19/11/2023 corrupted by this plagiarism detection tool
MyORBi and reference display: Twitter name and logo replaced by X
Publication reports: addition of several trusted preprints servers for the "preprints" category in FNRS templates
Repository: corrected URL for OpenCitations bibliometric data retrieval
OAI-PMH: added FNRS harvesting project document types and disciplines to oai mets/mods output
Admin: ability, when adding files via the edit item tool, to automatically generate a license and add version, access and file type information.
Admin: addition of IndexDiscovery job for improved reindex management
Admin: monitoring of enriched references (by archiving or job) via ID reporting.
Admin: improved message display in the event of a metadata import error.
Bug fixes
Repository: corrected link for forwarding signature requests to a ULiège member who has left the institution
Repository: fixed a bug preventing BibTeX import of a file containing unvalidated authors
MyORBi: corrected a bug preventing references from being removed from the list of most significant publications via the "My publications" page
Admin: corrected a bug preventing the addition of a policy for a document via the edit item tool
OAI-PMH: fixed bug preventing validation of oai output
Admin: fixed a bug preventing completion of the StorageCleanUp job
Technical debt: fixed XSS security vulnerability
20/11/2023
New features
MyORBi: selection and display of most significant publications Display your 5 most significant publications on your ORBi profile page. LEARN +
Improvements
Submission: added copyright warning when submitting images in open access
Admin: scopus 2022 metrics added
Bug fixes
Admin: stop indexing bibliometric data in jobs
Reports and search: fixed bug preventing sorting of references by publication date
OAI-PMH: correction of a bug preventing the output of a few references
14/11/2023
Improvements
Reports: removal of the "HEC Journal Guide" reference for the popularisation articles in HEC reports
OAI-PMH: updated display of file language in oai openaire output in accordance with COAR recommendations
Bug fixes
MyOrbi: fixed display of ORCID logo in author profile
MyORBi: correction of a bug preventing the display of offprint requests
Submission: correction of a bug preventing the submission of a thesis
Detailed display: correction of typos in APA citations for theses, posters and eprints
Admin: fixed a bug preventing a reference from being deleted from the workflow
07/11/2023
New features
Reports: thumbnail display
MyORBi: thumbnails displayed in profile and widgets
Admin: full export functionality for the periodicals database
OAI-PMH: METS/MODS output added
Improvements
Homepage: improved alphabetical order for author browsing (special and accented characters)
Deposit: retrieval of Scopus author IDs from an import deposit
Deposit and display: update of DOI syntax
List display: default sorting by descending publication date)
Detailed display: improved display of co-first/last authors
Detailed display: updated APA citation format
Detailed display: OpenCitations updated
Detailed display: DOI retrieval from Scopus identifiers
Admin: increased limit on the number of references to be imported using the import metadata tool
Admin: update of the list of bots
Admin: improved processing of information retrieved via the Scopus ID
OAI-PMH: addition of "editorial review" information in the oai output of periodicals
Bug fixes
Deposit: Kosovo added to the list of countries
Statistics: correction of the processing of the northern part of Somalia
Admin: deletion of email and id of external authors after archiving
Admin: correction of the display of the delay in days before the automatic launch of jobs
09/10/2023
Improvements
Journals database: Synchronisation of harvested metric data after modification in the ULiège journals database.
Admin: addition of licences in the import via the admin tool Batch import
Admin: updated country codes for ULiège and UniLu funders
Bug fixes
Deposit: fixed a bug preventing the import of references in RIS/EndNote format from Scopus
OAI-PMH: correction of the total number of OA references with full text in the OAI output
REST API: fixed a bug that prevented the REST URL generated via the widget tool from working when some special characters appeared in the query
Admin: fixed a bug preventing an external author's email from being modified using the admin Workflow tool
Home: correction of an XSS security flaw
11/09/2023
New features
Homepage: Google recaptcha removed and RGPD-compliant recaptcha added
Improvements
Detailed display: the title of discipline B04 "Business Management & Organisational Theory" has been changed to "Business Management, Entrepreneurship & Organisational Theory".
API: addition of the list of metadata in the public documentation of the REST API
Bug fixes
Home: correction of the alphabetical order of accented characters in the author browse display
Deposit: correction of a typo in messages concerning the event
Search: correction of a bug preventing indexing of the "Abstract references" field
Detailed display: correction of the warning message in the event of a request for an offprint that cannot be transmitted
21/08/2023
New features
OAI-PMH: ajout d'une sortie MODS avec ROR
Bug fixes
Admin: correction d'un bug empêchant l'affichage du nombre de pages des parties de FT dans l'outil admin "edit item"
Admin: correction d'une erreur interne lors de l'affichageReference display: correction of "co-first author" data in deposited references with "co-first" for second author only
09/08/2023
New features
Reference display: daily update of author info in ORBi references (ORCID) and facets (surname, first name)
Admin: addition of an admin tool to customize the "Step by step" section by institution
Admin: added MODS output to OAI-PMH outputs
Improvements
Admin: automatic addition of file name if missing when importing via admin tool Batch Import
Admin: control of eperson data before deletion in admin
Bug fixes
Reference display: fixed a bug preventing display of a reference containing incorrect data concerning uploaded files
Reference display: correction of "co-first author" data in deposited references with "co-first" for second author only
Submission: correction of co-first/last author data when changing document type
Submission: correction of page count in docx, pptx and xlsx files
Submission: corrected retrieval of ORCID and author affiliations when importing PubMed
MyORBi: corrected display of author names without first name
Admin: corrected bug in retrieval of journal issn and e-issn data by partner institutions
Admin: retrieve authority codes for subsidiary organizations when importing references via the admin Import metadata tool
Admin: addition of institutional orbi license if absent when importing via admin Batch Import tool
Admin: corrected number of licenses allocated to a reference containing several OA files when importing via the admin Batch Import tool
Admin: fixed a bug preventing the display of two curation tasks in the Edit item admin tool.
04/07/2023
Improvements
Homepage: anonymization of IP addresses sent via the contact form
Bug fixes
Submission: default affiliation "ULiège - Université de Liège" displayed for authors with no affiliation
Repository: correction of a bug preventing the update of tags modified in admin
Publication lists: corrected content of "preprint" category in FNRS templates
MyWidget: removal of "&" character in "REST" URL
19/06/2023
New features
News: news creation and display via the admin tool (for ORBilu and ORBiMons)
Admin: modification of license text through the Institution profile
Improvements
Detailed display: display of all author affiliations
Publication lists: modification of STM template to include articles published as other collaborator in a separate category
Admin: automated scheduling of journal data update job
Bug fixes
Statistics: corrected a bug causing a difference in the number of downloads displayed for the same author depending on the display location (profile or statistics).
Home: fixed a bug preventing access to CSS during deployment
Detailed display: cleaned up special characters not recognized during display
Repository: correction of bugs in RIS import and export functionalities
Repository: corrected display of generic affiliation used by default
Repository: corrected bug causing DOI special characters to be converted during BibTeX import
Search: harmonization of funders/sponsors index heading
MyORBi: corrected display of button for returning to MyORBi from current repositories
Admin: html formatting of "on error/on success" job email
01/06/2023
New features
Publication list: addition of an index allowing searches for publications by "first/last author"
Improvements
Statistics: improved list of referrers
Detailed display: various improvements (html display, css and twitter link)
Admin: added a job to update references after modifying the periodical database
Bug fixes
List of publications: correction of a bug preventing the sorting of publications according to the selected criteria
Search: support for additional character sets
Detailed display: fixed an error preventing files from being displayed after they have been moved
MyORBi: fixed a bug preventing BibTeX and RIS export in "My Publications"
MyORBi: correction of an error generated when connecting with two different identifiers
MyORBi: correction of an html error preventing access to certain profile pages
Admin: correction of errors generated when managing references via the workflow tool
22/05/2023
Improvements
Statistics: bibliometric elements are now being indexed
Statistics: update of referrers
Reports and MyORBi: use of bibliometric indexes
MyORBi: addition of filters in the REST output of MyWidgets
MyORBi: improvement of the visibility of orbi profiles on Google
Admin: modified the export of organizations to remove harvested organizations
Bug fixes
Detailed display: fixed display of authors without first name
Repository: fixed default affiliation selection for non-active authors
Reports: fixed a bug preventing to modify the selection of an authority in the query
Admin: fixed a bug in the DOI alert content
24/04/2023
New features
Publication lists: addition of the GIGA template
Publication lists and widgets: improved search by author with the addition of a suggestion list of ULiège authors
Admin: ability to restrict access to certain features based on user categories
Improvements
Publication lists: addition of the scopus h-index without autocitations in the bibliometric synthesis
MyORBi: improved visibility of author profile pages in Google
Admin: update of the ticketting tool
Admin: improved alerting of updated journal information in ORBi references
Admin: added reference info in case of alert for incorrect DOI
Admin: added the IT team in the recipients of the BadItem alert
Bug fixes
Homepage: fixed a bug that prevented images from being displayed in the news
Homepage: fixed a bug preventing the management of languages in the menus after modification of menus in admin
Deposit: recovery of the "delete" button in the references in progress
Browse and facetting: fixed display of authors without first name
Publication lists: fixed a bug that prevented to distinguish between co-authors and cofirst/colast in PSY and GIGA lists in case of a query with many author IDs
Publication lists and widgets: fixed a bug that prevented queries with a list of authorities from being saved
Admin: fixed an internal error generated after changing the name of a permanent group via the admin group tool
Admin: secured modifications related to the eperson system via the admin epeople tool
Admin: fixed a bug preventing the addition and deletion of eperson in the system group
21/03/2023
Improvements
Statistics: addition of the whole set of document types "scientific journals" and of the type "papers published in a journal" for generating the graph of the most frequent journals
Detailed display: bounce to the author's profile from his name and surname, including from the reference header and the display of reference lists (search result)
Detailed view: update OpenCitations for all ORBi references
Admin: added the number of pages of the files in the editing tool in admin
Admin: display of item ID in the workflow tool
API REST: optimised API output (optimised response time, cleaned up html citation, added parameters to target outgoing fields)
Bug fixes
MyORBi and display of references: correction of the display of authors without a first name in the ULiège LDAP
Admin: fixed a bug preventing the addition of a file in admin
Admin: correction of authority codes in the administration interface
07/03/2023
New features
Submission: addition of the ORCIDs of ULiège authors directly in the references when archiving a new publication so that they are present in the various ORBi data exports.
MyORBi: added in the MyWidget a "REST" output directly usable in the REST API facilitating its use
Admin: added Q1 Scimago disciplines from 1999 to 2018 in the periodicals database
Improvements
Detailed display: bounce to the ULiège authors profile from the header citation
Repository: addition of the country code of the EU organization when selecting a European project
Admin: send an alert to the orbi team in case of failure to retrieve OpenCitations when archiving a new publication
Bug fixes
Detailed display: fixed a bug preventing the opening of files with special characters in the title
Submission: fixed a bug that prevented the display of all ULiège authors matching a name entered in the author field
Submission: fixed internal errors caused by archived but not visible references
14/02/2023
New features
Affichage détaillé: Récupération des données Altmetrics pour les références sans DOI
Dépôt: ajout de la vérification des données du périodique (ISSN, e-ISSN, titre et peerreviewed) lors de l'archivage d'une publication
Admin: ajout d'un job réindexant les références archivées après modification des données dans la base des périodiques
Admin: ajout d'une alerte repérant les cas de références archivées mais non visibles
Improvements
Dépôt: ajout de messages précisant l'utilisation du bouton co-first/co-last
Admin: amélioration de l'interface de la base des périodiques après modification d'un périodique
Bug fixes
Dépôt: correction d'un bug provoquant le plantage d'orbi lors du comptage des pages de gros fichiers excel
Dépôt: correction d'un bug empêchant le comptage correct des pages pour les fichiers pptx et docx
Dépôt: correction d'erreurs internes provoquées par des reférences archivées mais non visibles
Admin: correction des données authority dans l'export csv
23/01/2023
New features
Profile: added the number of references covered by each heading
Admin: added a new API REST output providing bibliometric data for each reference
Improvements
Detailed display: display of the speaker function in APA/Chicago citations and in RIS/BibTeX output
Profile: improved display of headings
OAI-PMH output: added ORCID of authors
Bug fixes
Publications list: corrected display of publications list in ULiège staff directory (report language and name display)
List of publications: correction of the display of the number of orbi publications in the MyULiège profile
Detailed display: correction of the display of authors in the APA citation
Search: correction of the display of number of results exported in RIS/BibTeX for an identified user
16/01/2023
New features
Search: export of a search result in BibTeX and RIS files
Publication lists: updated FNRS template and separated into two templates (with/without posters), as requested in the FNRS Guide for Applicants 2023
Improvements
Submission: Parameter setting of the delay of acceptance of the orbi license by the co-authors
10/01/2023
New features
Search: grouping of the rectors' speeches under the new tag "Rector's speech for the start of the academic year ULiège".
Admin: addition of an up/down alert to warn administrators by sms in case of a failure of the orbi server
Improvements
Search: taking into account of the capital letter in the search for an institutional identifier (u/c/s)
Publication reports and display: update of the mention of type F01 (formerly DEA/DES) to " specialised master ".
Profile: removal of the unavailable functionality to add the author's Scopus ID
Admin: possibility to create lists of publications with a large number of identifiers
Admin: identification of the orbi server (test, preprod, prod) in the emails sent by the jobs
Admin: added metadata in the API REST html output
Bug fixes
Display: access to embargoed files for members of the institution
Display: detection of empty ORCIDs from Scopus
Submission and display: display of comments and editor's mentions associated with a file
Submission: fixed a bug preventing the display, in the orbi licence, of a submitter without an email address
Submission: fixed a bug preventing the archiving of a reference
Submission: fixed a bug preventing the signature of a reference containing a large excel file
Admin: fixed a bug preventing the recovery of OpenAire projects
12/12/2022
New features
MyORBi: transmission to the myULiège staff directory (intranet) of the authors' number of publications for display
Statistics: addition of a tool to update OpenCitations for all references
Improvements
Submission and detailed display: update of the title of the document type "master DEA/DES/DEC" to "Master of specialization
Detailed display: improvement of the display of citation sources
Bug fixes
Submission: correction of the display of data sent to co-authors when modifying a publication
Submission: extension of the list of top-level domains accepted in URLs
Submission: fixed bug when importing references by DOI that are not in PubMed
Submission: fixed bugs preventing display of archived references
Detailed display: fixed bug creating an error when retrieving a file containing a modification date
Home: fixed the display of the footer
Admin: fixed a bug preventing the archiving of modifications in the journals database
22/11/2022
New features
Reports: new "structured list" template added
Improvements
Deposit: automatic addition of the EU as funder for the publications related to a European project
Home: putting in cache of customizable institutional elements (menus, footer)
Deposit, statistics and admin: synchronization of periodicals information after modification of the periodicals database.
Admin: improvement of the security of access to the administration tools
Bug fixes
Deposit: correction of the rectoral title in the repository license in OA
Reports: correction of the indexes used for the HEC journals list
08/11/2022
Improvements
Homepage: update of the news retrieval URL from the new version of the ULiège Library website
Admin: preview of myORBi pages and messages
Admin: possibility to add several identifiers and referencers in the periodicals database
Admin: add Q1 Scimago information in the periodicals database and in the references
Bug fixes
Submission: display of non-archived references following a server shutdown
Reports: fixed a bug preventing to generate a publication report when checking the "metrics" box
24/10/2022
Improvements
Search: standardisation of the "ULiège authors" cards dimension, whatever the name length.
Home page: possibility to configure ORBi to display three news on the homepage instead of one
Publication reports: increase the length limit of a query
Search: configuration of the display of photo thumbnails in the "ULIège authors" cards according to the institutional parameters
Admin: Improvement of the job retrieving Scopus IDs: addition of the parameters "publication date" and "presence/absence of ScopusID"; taking into account the ORBi translated title in the search
Admin: possibility to define several email addresses for jobs
Bug fixes
Detailed display of references: private access to the distribution licence
Metrics: fixed a bug in the job retrieving Scopus citations
Submission: fixed a bug preventing the submission from working when more than one potential duplicate is detected for the same reference
Submission: fixed a bug preventing the update of document subtypes after a document type change
Widget: fixed XML markup of iframe link
04/10/2022
New features
Search result: display of ULiège authors with publications related to the query. It is now possible to see which ULiège authors have the most publications within a search result and to bounce to their profile or to the list of related publications.
Improvements
MyProfile: possibility to edit your profile directly from your public profile page when logged in
References: addition of CECI and Tier-1 tags in the publications concerned
Admin: differentiated treatment of OpenCitations and Scopus citations for the update of citations on ORBi
MyORBi: customization of the menu according to the institution
Bug fixes
Reports: fixed a bug preventing the selection of a tag in the reports and widgets query
Search: correction of the display of filters (removal of the grouping by data type)
Admin: added the dc.identifier.uri in the references metadata
Repository: addition of the owning-collection metadata which was missing in some references and prevented them from being displayed
Home: correction of the html code in the source code of the page for the URLs containing a choice of language
08/09/2022
New features
Submission: automatic update of the OpenAire project list
Improvements
OAI: metadata peer reviewed and editorial reviewed "verified by orbi" added in the OAI output
Admin: correction of the Scopus ID structure in all the code
Submission: external authors' affiliations display when importing by ID
Admin: journal last modification date display
Admin: selection of start and end dates of references to be processed after a ScopusID recovery job failure
Bug fixes
Deposit: fixed a bug preventing the retrieval of ScopusIDs during archiving
Home: fixed an internal error when calling the obsolete URL newsfeed
29/08/2022
New features
ORBi Home: browse by ULiège authors added. It is now possible to browse the list of ULiège researchers and access their author profile on ORBi.
Data enrichment: Search and retrieval of SCOPUS IDs for ORBi references archived without ScopusID
Improvements
Author browse: regroup the different spellings of an author under the same entry
Journals list: update of the scopus journals metrics for the year 2021
Home: Management of certificates expiration
Bug fixes
Statistics: correction of statistics by country display
Repository: Fixed a bug that appeared when multiple clicks were made in the duplicate form
Filing: Fixed wrong text in the filing form
Admin: fixed a bug when retrieving Scopus IDs
09/08/2022
Improvements
Facetting: grouping under one single entry the different spellings of a ULiège author's name
Fixes
Publications lists: correction of the HEC journal lists categories display
Detailed reference display: correction of the "peer reviewed" metadata to "peer reviewed verified by orbi" in a few hundred references
Reprints: Fixed a bug generating an error message when trying to access, via a reprint request, files modified since the request.
Widgets: Fixed a bug that caused the interface language to change after a widget was generated.
ORBi Home: Correction of the html code of the orbi homepage
MyORBi: Correction of a pagination error in the list of reprints
Detailed reference display: correction of the position of the "modify" button when the title of the publication is very long
Submission: thumbnail extraction is done in the file available for the visitors of the site
Admin: removal of the "video with preview" template
Admin: treatment of news with no content of their own (link to a news on another website)
Submission: correction of a bug causing the loss of a comment associated with a file
14/07/2022
New features
Submission: addition of Horizon Europe projects to the list of European projects (OpenAIRE)
Detailed reference display: improvement of the display order of the statistics
Submission: correction of messages displayed during a deposit with OCR request
Submission: improved retrieval of ORCIDs when importing via identifier
Admin: addition of a note indicating whether a reference is being modified by the author
OAI: correction of the display of the status "In press" and "Undated" in the OAI output
OAI: deletion of the statement required by the publisher of the dc. rights
Fixes
Submission: fixed a bug that prevented OCR processing when modifying a reference
Submission: fixed a bug preventing the import by ArXiv ID of references containing a large number of authors
Reports: fixed bugs that prevented the generation of reports for certain "fictitious" identifiers (Famous Scholars)
Admin: correction of an internal error following a deduplication of references
30/06/2022
Improvements
Submission: control of the author function when changing to the document type "Collective work published as editor or director (book)"
ORBi profiles: creation of profile pages for authors no longer in activity within the Institution
Homepage ORBi: English support added in the cookie setting tool
Admin: configuration of API calls in the citations update job
Admin: DOI format control when calling the OpenCitations API
Fixes
Detailed reference display: correction of references containing duplicate DOIs
Detailed reference display: fixed issue with display of dataset titles
Search: fixed a bug preventing the search for certain DOIs
20/06/2022
New features
Enrichment: retrieval of the bibliography from Scopus
Deposit: retrieve the Scopus ID directly when archiving a publication
Admin: Use of Matomo web statistics measurement tool compliant with the GDPR
Admin: monitoring tool for the "co-first/last author" option
Admin: monitoring tool for new scientific journal titles
Improvements
Submission: consultation in a new tab of the documents attached to a reference being filed or validated
MyORBi: correction of the error message in case of absence of a profile page for members of the institution who have no publication on ORBi
Fixes
MyORBi: fixed a bug that prevented viewing accepted reprint requests from ORBi's old version
Citations: fixed bugs preventing to retrieve OpenCitations on some references
Deposit: fixed a bug that prevented the deposit of a "Book for a general audience".
Detailed display of references: correction of the URL for datasets mentioning a DOI
Detailed display of references: correction of the message indicating the success or failure of a reprint request
Detailed display of references: corrected a regression preventing the correct display of the "peer reviewed" mention
Admin: corrected a bug preventing the submission of references for "Famous Scholar".
09/06/2022
New features
Detailed reference display: added citations from OpenCitations
Admin: added "PubMed Linkout Tool" job that allows Pubmed to link to the full text in OA on ORBi
Admin: added OAI Journals output
Improvements
REST API: added dc.date.available metadata indicating the date of deposit of a publication on ORBi
Submission and display: updated SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) headings
RIS export: addition of PB, PP and SN metadata
MyORBi: added MyORBi in the breadcrumb trail for reports and widgets
Import by ID or file: recording of additional data
Fixes
ORBi home page: correction of the display of drop-down menus
Repository: fixed a bug preventing the display of the dc.contributor.inventor for patents
RIS/BIBTeX export: fixed display of undated and in press
Detailed display of references: fixed a bug in the display of datasets
Import via Grobid/ArXiV: correction of the display of authors data
Import: correction of formatting of academy, publisher and conference place fields
Admin: fixed a bug preventing the retrieval of the bibliography via Scopus
23/05/2022
New features
Detailed reference display: automatic addition of Scopus and Pubmed identifiers in order to display the link to the publication on these international databases
Reports: display of the h-index in the bibliometric synthesis of the publication reports
Author profile: addition of a link to the author's publications as an ORBi search result
Statistics: Customization of certain components according to the institution
Fixes
Submission: fixed a bug preventing the display in French of countries containing accented characters
Submission: display of the form reporting a duplicate fixed
Submission: fixed author formatting when importing bibtex
Submission: correction of the display in English of certain types of documents
Submission and reference display: correction of display issues for periodical publishers
Reprint requests: correction of a bug preventing access to documents when the request relates to several
Reports: fixed the category of articles published as first or last author (PSY model)
Author profile: correction of the display of data from the MyULiège profile
05/05/2022
New features
Reports and widgets: display (by completion) of the list of tags and research centers
Submission: possibility of modifying the type of file (full text, full text part, annexes) by moving
API REST: adding files version information (author preprint, author postprint, publisher postprint)
Improvements
Reports: display of models by alphabetical order
Reports: enabling "simple list" template by default
Profile: modification of the message referring to the contact details of the author in the ULiège directory
Automatical reload of the ORBi CSS after changes
Fixes
Submission: correction of the display of theses and dissertations when the faculty is missing
Submission: fixed error message when a required full text is missing
Submission: removal of the ULiège icon for an external signatory
Import by DOI: fixed a bug in the information exchange with Crossref
Statistics: correction of the year put at the beginning of the graph
Reports and widgets: fixed an error preventing the search of a tag
Thumbnail: correction of the display for pdf without pagination
OAI outputs: correction of data indicating DNS
21/04/2022
Improvements
Widget and reports: removal of unused search fields and modification of some of the labels
API REST: number of pages added for uploaded files
Reports: addition of a link to the list of Faculty models and their structure
Fixes
Detailed reference display: addition of bibtex export for "Eprint already available on another site"
MyORBi: correction of a bug occurring when adding an ORCID
Deposit: fixed error preventing addition by DOI via Crossref
05/04/2022
New features
Institution profile: Possibility to configure ORBi by institution (logos, mentions about the institution, CSS)
API REST: addition of author order and file information
Improvements
OAI-PMH: improved oai_dc output and openaire context
Facets: grouping of journals with several labels
Detailed reference display: addition of ORBi favicon when displaying pdf documents
MyORBi profile: basic display for ULiège members unknown to ORBi
Submission: updated email addresses of co-authors who are no longer active in the ULiège LDAP
Submission: addition of email adress for the Famous scholars project
Home page: improvement of the presentation of statistical values
Admin: added information about errors in Scopus query
Fixes
MyORBi: visualization of references with missing publication date
Reprint requests: removal of private documents in the list of available documents
Reprint requests: correction of an error occurring when requesting some full text versions
Admin: fixed bugs occurring when adding a journal in the database
Admin: fixed a bug preventing the cancellation of an OCR request
Correction of various typos
21/03/2022
New features
Widget: addition of the possibility to create URLs referring to the ORBi search page and compatibility with URLs from the old version of ORBi1
Submission: in the choice of authors, display of the CHU logo instead of the ULiège logo for CHU members
Improvements
Submission: control of peer reviewing information before archiving a publication
MyORBi menu: improved menu visibility
REST API: increased limit of results and improved output data (values for document types and disciplines ; addition of journal and event data)
Fixes
Email: Correction of the code allowing to search ULiège email adresses in the LDAP
Repository: Fix of a bug preventing the modification of references with a european project coming from the old version of ORBi.
15/03/2022
New features
Admin: merge item tool allowing ORBi team to merge two duplicate references including their access statistics
Improvements
Widget: compatibility improvements with widgets created under the old version of ORBi
Statistics: automatic update of Scopus citations
Submission: addition of "speaker" authors in the list of recognized authors for the deposit
Fixes
Submission: Fix of a bug that prevented the import of a publication by PDF
Submission: Correction of an archiving error when the email of a co-author is not valid
Reports: access to an html report for unauthenticated users
02/03/2022
New features
Publication reports: metrics added at the journal title level (CiteScore, SNIP and SJR)
Publication reports and widgets: addition of the possibility to search on affiliations
Publication reports and widgets: addition of the possibility to introduce several authors in the "identifier" field
Improvements
Links from ULiège and CHU directories: reverse chronological sorting by default
Detailed display of the reference and publication reports: addition of the asterisk to identifiy "co-first" and "co-last" authors
Data transfer from the old to the new version: recovery of some full texts wrongly placed in "Full text parts"
OAI-PMH output: improvement of DC and QDC outputs
ORBi-old: restoring access for the CHU
Redirection of old URLs such as orbi.ulg.ac.be that still exist on the internet to orbi.uliege.be
Fixes
Widgets: compatibility with URLs created for the previous version of ORBi
Statistics: updating the number of views and downloads at the author level
Submission: errors corrections d'erreurs when modifying references
Detailed display of the reference: correction of authors' order for certain references
Miscellaneous: restoring access to references handles
21/02/2022
ORBi gets a brand new look
New features, a new look, a "user-oriented" interface. Find out about this new version of ORBi and what it can do for you.
