Release Notes


25/03/2025

New features

      • Visible production launch of MyIndicators
      • MyIndicators allows everyone to analyze their own scientific production, that of a group and even of the institution by bringing together on one page a set of indicators from bibliographic databases. This tool, developed by researchers and ULiège Library, generates personalised statistics in real time based on a search on the publications registered in ORBi.
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Improvements
      • Concerns the fields of research: Author; First/Last Author; Promoter
      • When typing a name with an accent, find the names of members that match this search regardless of accents.
      • Correction label EN: detailed (instead of "detailled")
      • Number of publications per year [filters]
        • items: type_authority:DSO/A01
          • items: type_authority:DSO/A01
          • parts of works: type_authority:DSO/C01
          • PR Articles:
            • type_authority: DSO/A01
            • review_authority: peerreviewedverifiedbyorbi + peerreviewed
          • PR Articles:
            • type_authority: DSO/A01
            • review_authority: peerreviewedverifiedbyorbi + peerreviewed
          • Number of articles with review per year: type_authority:DSO/A01
          • Number of scientific articles: type_authority:DSO/A01
          • Top 20: Most Cited Peer Reviewed Articles
            • type_authority:DSO/A01
            • review_authority: peerreviewedverifiedbyorbi + peerreviewed
          • Publications as co-first or co-last author [filters]
            • items: type_authority:DSO/A01
            • Parts of Works: type_authority:DSO/C01
            • Works: type_authority:DSO/B01
          • Most frequent monograph publishers: type_authority:DSO/B01 + type_authority:DSO/B02
          • Proportion of items in Q1 Scimago: type_authority:DSO/A01
      • MyIndicators "Proportion of articles in Q1 Scimago" added the last update info in the title of the graph
Bug fixes
      • Statistics: Fix in the query method for displaying statistics (technical change - no tests to be performed)
      • Fixed the display of facets (ODD in French and not in English in the FR interface)
03/12/2024

New features

      • Jobscheduler: Sending reminders to authors for publications indicated as "in press" so that the year of publication is updated as soon as possible.
      • Admin/Jobscheduler: New proxy alert for ORBi admins.
      • SDGs: Use of the Sustainable Development Goal metadata. Added this metadata as a search filter in the search form and in facets.
      • Dataset
        • Use of the "Datasets" metadata: Added this metadata as a search filter in the search form and in facets.
        • Clearly display the presence of a reference-related dataset in search results and publication lists.
        • Admin: Daily alert with references added or modified with a linked dataset.
      • Sorting of results by decreasing number of citations.
      • Add the fulltext search in the "all fields" search, default search on the ORBi homepage ("All" index)
Improvements
      • Submission: added a help message for the "Additional URL" field
      • REST API: adding item data for apa,chicago,html modes:
        • handle
        • lastModified
        • author_qualifier_filter
        • Affil
        • orcid
        • author
        • issued
        • Doi
        • pubmed
        • abstract
        • lang_authority
        • subject
        • classification_authority
        • classification_top_authority
        • title
        • type_authority
        • type_top_authority
        • review
        • newspaper
        • issn
        • publisher
        • book
        • Editor
        • proceeding
        • researchcenter
        • sponsor
        • project
        • Series
        • isbn
        • Academy
        • degree
        • jury
        • Promotor
        • book
        • sponsor_keyword
        • europroject
        • researchcenter_keyword
        • Added ROR ID for Organizations
      • REST API: removed the phrase "or admin (mode='admin', is only used when you need raw metadata from references)" from the public info page https://orbi.umons.ac.be/rest/
      • Organizations: Clear the country code between [] in the Organizations' labels
Bug fixes
      • Deposit: fixed the display of the edit file button
      • OAI-PMH: Correcting a typo
      • Display bug in the information frame of step 3 of the filing, "Which access should I choose?"
27/08/2024

New features

      • Retrieving OpenAlex Citations
      • MyIndicators: Using openalex citations
      • Use of openalex citations: display in references (ORBi profile, reports, detailed display of references)
      • MyIndicators: Total number of articles
Improvements
      • Statistics: Compilatio spider identification (plagiarism detection software) based on the DNS
      • MyIndicators: Graphic Color Standardization of Citations
      • MyIndicators: Color Change OpenAlex Quote
      • Reports: bibliometric synthesis correction of citation calculation following the addition of OpenAlex citations
      • Job HarvestOpenCitation: Fix to Capitalize When Comparing DOIs
      • Added PsyArxiv to the list of recognized preprint servers for FNRS model reports
Bug fixes
      • Reports: Reference sorting bug
      • Fixed stats following the addition in the compilation spiders
      • MyIndicators: Spelling Corrections for Legend Labels
23/07/2024

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
      • 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
09/04/2024

New features

      • Search: export in CSV format (for spreadsheet) of a search result for anonymous users and identified users (the number of results and data exported being larger for the latter)
Improvements
      • Submission: addition of an information link on the ORBi charter
      • Detailed view: display of the number of documents available for reference
      • MyORBi: Removal of Empty Profile Pages in Google SEO
      • OAI: refinements of document types in the output mets/mods
Bug fixes
      • OAI: fixed URL containing the handle of references
      • MyOrbi: fixed a bug that prevented you from linking your ORCIDID to the ORBi profile
12/03/2024

New features

      • Deposit: possibility of deposit without an institute or research unit
Improvements
      • MyOrbi: automated addition of a UMONS member's ORCID in publications and in OAI output when creating their ORCID
      • OAI: Validation of the OAI output
      • Admin: Improved the content of alerts sent when a curation job fails
Bug fixes
      • Statistics: fixed incorrect statistical data in the graph of the number of views per country
      • Reports: fixed a bug that caused an error when creating reports
      • Submission: fixed an error generated when switching from the document type "Dissertation/Thesis" to "Paper" when the submission contains members of the jury
      • Repository: fixed a bug preventing the correct retrieval of a reference on Pubmed with DOI import
      • Repository: fixed a bug preventing the import of references via a bibtex file
      • Deposit and admin: improved the code to avoid incorrect display in the "Enrichment" status of publications awaiting signature when the deposit has been made in admin via the epeople tool
      • Admin: fixed an error preventing full indexing of ORBi via the ImportItemsToOAI job
      • Admin: fixed a bug that caused an error when displaying the last page in the epeople admin tool
      • OAI: fixed a bug that caused an incorrect "in press" release date
      • OAI: fixed bugs generating errors when indexing OAI of ORBi references
24/01/2024
Improvements
      • Admin: Improved the content of alerts sent when a curation job fails
Fixed bugs
      • Repository: fixed a bug preventing the import of references via a bibtex file
      • Reports: fixed a bug that caused an error when creating reports
      • OAI: fixed a bug that caused an incorrect "in press" release date
      • OAI: Validation of the OAI output
18/12/2023
New features
      •  Home: 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.
Fixed bugs
      • Repository: corrected link for forwarding signature requests to a UMONS 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
23/11/2023
New features
      • Reports: Thumbnails Display
      • MyORBi: display of thumbnails in profile and widgets
      • MyORBi: selection and display of the most significant publications
      • OAI-PMH: added METS/MODS output
Improvements
      • Home: improved alphabetical order of the authors' browse
      • Filing: Added a copyright warning when uploading images in OA
      • Repository: retrieving Scopus IDs from a repository by import
      • Filing and Displaying: Updated DOI Syntax
      • List View: Changing the Default Sort (by Descending Date)
      • Detailed View: Highlighting File Upload Features
      • Detailed view: improved display of co-first/co-last authors
      • Detailed View: Updated APA Citation Format
      • Detailed view: retrieving DOIs from Scopus IDs
      • Admin: increase in the number of references to be imported via the import metadata tool (please note, the import metadata is currently being tested. Contact ULiège before using!)
      • Admin: Updated bot list
      • Admin: improved processing of information retrieved via Scopus ID
      • Admin: added scopus 2022 metrics
      • Admin: adding licenses in the import via the Batch import admin tool
      • OAI-PMH: Updated file language display in open oai output in accordance with COAR recommendations
      • OAI-PMH: addition of the "editorial review" info in the oai output of periodicals
      • Logs: Synchronization of the metric data collected after data change in the ULiège periodicals database
Fixed bugs
      • Deposit: fixed a bug preventing the submission of a thesis
      • Tabling: addition of Kosovo to the list of countries
      • Repository: fixed a bug preventing the import of references in RIS/EndNote format from Scopus
      • Detailed display: typo correction in APA citations for theses, posters and eprints
      • Reporting & Search: fixed a bug that prevented references from being sorted by publication date
      • MyOrbi: fixed the display of the ORCID logo in the author profile
      • MyORBi: fixed a bug preventing reprint requests from being displayed
      • Statistics: Corrected the treatment of the northern part of Somalia
      • OAI: Fixed the total number of full-text OA references in OAI output
      • OAI: fixed a bug preventing some references from being output in certain contexts
      • REST API: fixed a bug preventing the REST URL generated via the widget tool from working
      • Admin: fixed a bug that prevented a reference from being removed from the workflow
      • Admin: deletion of email and id of external authors after archiving
      • Admin: fixed the display of the delay in days before automatic start of jobs
      • Admin: Stop indexing bibliometric data in jobs
      • Admin: fixed a bug preventing editing an external author's email via the admin Workflow tool
      • Home: Fixing an XSS Security Vulnerability
15/02/2022
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