FAQ ORBi^lu

• Who can access ORBi^lu?
• What search facilities are available in ORBi^lu?
• How do I keep up to date on changes to what’s deposited in ORBi^lu?
• What are the rights and obligations of users who access a work deposited in ORBi^lu?
• Can I still access a document marked with a closed padlock? How do I ask for a copy?

• Consultation access:

  The very principles of open access mean that the information is accessible to anyone and does not require them to register to access the services offered by ORBi^lu (research, downloading, reference export, etc.).

• Deposit access:

  Only members of the UL and people authorised by it can register references and deposit documents (see Who can deposit in ORBi^lu?)

You have three ways to perform a search in ORBi^lu:

• Simple search covers both documents’ descriptive fields and the full text of electronic versions that have been deposited;
• Advanced search allows you to search in various indices (author, title, keyword, year of publication, etc.), to combine different searches using Boolean operators like “AND”, “OR”, “EXCEPT”, and to limit results using filters (type of document, discipline, peer-reviewed, language, etc.); it runs on the document’s descriptive fields and offers full text search;
• Browse mode allows you to browse alphabetically by:
  • discipline and sub-discipline;
  • author;
  • document title;
  • publication year;
  • periodical title.

ORBi^lu allows you to stay up to date on the latest works that have been deposited in a number of ways:

• the last three works deposited are listed on the welcome page;
• you can subscribe to an RSS feed to see what’s new across the whole repository, in a given discipline or in a given sub-discipline.

Before accessing the full text of a document placed in ORBilu under open access, users must read and accept the user licence. The conditions provide that users may read, download, copy, transmit, print, search or make a link to the document’s full text, dissect it for indexing purposes or use it for any other lawful purpose provided there is no intent whatsoever to seek commercial gain.

They nonetheless agree to honour the author’s non-pecuniary rights, mainly the right to integrity of the work and the right of paternity, so that they cannot make any alteration to the work and that, if they reproduce a document, they have to fully cite the sources as set out in the ORBi^lu repository.

Requests for copies can be made for documents placed under restricted access. Just click the icon next to the publication’s title. An e-mail is automatically sent to the authors, who can then either agree to the copy being sent, or refuse permission.