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Improve your own visibility on the web

Why improve your visibility?

Cultivating your digital identity and ensuring a consistent and responsible online presence yourself is essential for any researcher.

This makes it possible to:

  • Safer alignment of personal information in various tools and profile descriptions (affiliations, disambiguation troubleshooting, etc.)
  • Better promotion of areas of expertise to a wider audience (public sector, journalists, etc.) with significant benefits such as, for example, the prospect of developing new collaborations, etc.
  • Proactive participation, through openness to research data and publications, in the construction of open science.

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Courses of action

Upload your open access publications to ORBi

Open access guarantees better visibility of your publications, which will be better referenced on tools such as Google scholar or university library websites.

Create your ORCiD profile

ORCiD is a perennial identifier for researchers used by many publishing and scientific information management systems. Using it allows you to link your different profiles together, manage your digital identity, avoid homonymy issues and automatically update your information.

Fill it in your different researcher profiles (ORBi included) and declare your ORCiD when you publish.
How to link your ORCiD?

Your ORBi profile

Once logged in, to access your ORBi profile, click on your name at the top right and then on "My Profile":

Scroll down the page and click on "View My Profile".

A lot of information is available:

  • Your ORCiD if you have linked ORBi and ORCiD
  • Research unit(s)
  • Primary co-authors referenced
  • Main keywords referenced
  • Main research centres and units referenced
  • Main disciplines referenced
  • Your most downloaded post
  • Your most cited publication (according to Scopus)
  • Your most meaningful posts (see how to add meaningful posts)
  • All your publications

This profile is publicly available. You can share the URL https://orbi.umons.ac.be/profile.uid=MATRICULE

It is possible to change the appearance of the list of your publications.

Click on your name again in the top right corner and then on "My Profile".
Scroll down to "Posting List Display."

You will then be able to modify the presentation template and the bibliographic format (we recommend APA) :

Then click "Update" to save your changes.

Add your most meaningful posts

ORBi allows you to highlight publications that you consider important (5 max.).

Go to your publications.

Each of your posts appears in a box with a white star in the top right corner of each box.
Click the star. It turns yellow and is automatically added to your list of most significant posts in your profile.

You can change at any time, simply by clicking on the star already checked to uncheck it and then check a new post.

Integrate the list of your ORBi publications

  • Thanks to the widget, display the list of your publications on your website or that of your department/research center
  • Update your email signature to include the ORBi link

Align your different digital profiles

In particular thanks to ORCiD, you can link your MyORBi, your Google scholar profile, Scopus, etc.

Communicate about your research

Share your data

Make your data, including preliminary and inconclusive data, available on data repositories and link them to ORBi.

Note:

Use academic social networks such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu

Unlike institutional directories, these are private for-profit companies:

  • Accessible via closed websites (registration only)
  • Whose sustainability is not assured. These companies can go bankrupt from one day to the next, be sold to other players, change their business model, etc.
  • Who distribute full-text documents without having the right to do so. Several have already been attacked by publishers, forcing them to remove content on a massive scale
  • Riding the wave of Open Access without respecting its ethics

These social networks cannot, therefore, replace the ORBi institutional repository or open archives such as ArXiv.org.

Should we deprive ourselves of it? No, of course not.
Upload the full text of your publications to ORBi but only the reference on social networks, with the link to ORBi if possible.

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