On the 4th June, the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR) is organising a free 1-day seminar in Brussels aimed at young researchers and their supervisors focussing on research data management. Several practical topics will be addressed such as copyright issues, data management planning, dealing with repositories, EC Horizon2020 requirements, supporting tools, etc.

Full details and to register here.

107 739 : the number of full-text downloads made via ORBi^lu of publications by UL authors since its inception in April 2013. An increase of over 250% in April 2015 versus January 2015! See the results for yourself.

An elightening viewpoint from a young researcher, Erin McKiernan, on what she can do to ensure her publications are open.

The July 2014 edition of the Ranking Web of World Repositories brought good news. ORBi^lu has shown great progress in terms of the ranking. Since July 2013, after only 1 year, ORBi^lu has moved up 473 places in the global academic repository ranking to 519^th out of 1 897 repositories in total!

The 22nd of April 2013 saw the official launch of ORBi^lu, the UL’s Open Repository and Bibliography.

It marks the date that the UL decided to make its academic research available to everyone, without barriers: legal, financial or technical.

Click to see the details of what 1 year of ORBi^lu has added to your visibility!

Fed up with not understanding that copyright transfer agreement you have to sign before you submit your article for publication? Want to keep the rights to your research?

Did you know that the ORBi^lu team can help? Our experience with copyright agreements means that we can help you determine what your rights are and, most importantly, how you can try to keep them! We can also call upon a copyright expert in Luxembourg to ensure that what you are signing is not detrimental to you and the future use of your research.

Already signed an agreement and don't really know what you signed? Planning to sign an agreement in the next few weeks?  Send it to us and we will decipher for you the main points pertaining to copyright and what you can (or cannot) do with your publication.

Interested? Contact us now on orbilu@uni.lu.

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Already available during the import process, ORBi^lu now incorporates duplicate checking during the data entry process as well.

You want to add a publication where the title, first author and date published match another entry in ORBi^lu?  ORBi^lu will provide you with a warning and ask you to verify if it really is a duplicate or not.

See how this functionality works in our training videos.