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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.
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Improvements
      • 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?"
06/11/2024
New features
          • API REST: ROR identifiers added  for Funders
          • 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
          • Job HarvestOpenCitation: improved DOI-based comparison
          • 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.
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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.
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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: file download functions highlighted
          • 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)
          • 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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