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23/01/2022
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
16/01/2022
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
10/01/2022
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)
      • Reports: addition of OpenCitations
      • Admin: addition of CSV export in MyWidgets
Improvements
      • Reports: improved display of metrics journals
      • Widgets: consideration of filters in the web link
      • 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
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