Our publications are visible and not only on ORBi...
From the very beginning of ORBi, particular attention has been paid to its referencing in quality tools, our desire being to automatically "push" UMONS references wherever researchers from all over the world go to search for scientific information.
This visibility is of course achieved through web essentials such as search engines, but also through more specialized tools such as Open Access harvesters, library catalogues or social networks.
A publication on ORBi is a few clicks for the widest possible distribution!
Web visibility naturally requires good positioning on general search engines or those specializing in scientific literature.
ORBi references are therefore present and visible very quickly on well-known search engines such as: Bing, Google, Yahoo, etc. but also on:
Google Scholar
Search engine for scientific research, made by Google.
Indexing of ORBi since 2022
Baidu
General search engine. Described as the Chinese Google, it is the most commonly used search engine in China with over 400 million users.
Indexing of ORBi since 2022
DuckDuckGo
Meta-search engine created by Gabriel Weinberg (DuckDuckGo Inc.).
A philosophy committed to the preservation of privacy, no storage of personal data.
References on ORBi are also indexed by the Discovery tools used by thousands of academic and scientific libraries around the world.
These tools are gigantic indexes that make it possible to search, via a single interface, several hundred million references of electronic resources of a scientific nature (articles, books, chapters, reports, legal documents, etc.). This data is made available by publishers and content aggregators, and it can also come from local sources (catalogues, institutional repositories, digitised collections, etc.).
To enrich its documentary collections, the University of Mons has chosen the Central Discovery Index (CDI).
In addition to Google Scholar, there are several other search engines that specialize in scientific information. These high-performance engines rely on the metadata sharing protocol of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) to harvest various sources (institutional repositories, open archives, etc.).
BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
One of the most important meta-engines for accessing Open Access academic resources. It has collected more than 100 million references from 5,000 sources
Publisher: Universität Bielefeld
ORBi indexing since 2024
CORE - Connecting Repositories
Access to more than 135 million full-text Open Access versions from over 10,000 sources (2021)
Publisher: Knowledge Media Institute Open University, UK
ORBi indexing since 2024
OpenAIRE
The European OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) project aims to support the open access deposit mandates decided by the European Commission and the European Research Council (FP7, Horizon 2020). Access to 20 million publications, 45,500 datasets
Publisher: OpenAIRE.eu
ORBi indexing since 2024
PubMed
PubMed is the leading search engine for biomedical science (over 27 million references as of September 2017)
Publisher: US National Library of Medicine
Integration of ORBi to PubMed's "LinkOut" tool: May 201X
The ORBi directory, as a whole, is referenced in: