Impact and Visibility

ORBilu helps increase the visibility and impact of research from our University. As an open-access repository, it supports sharing, collaboration, and the development of new ideas. It reaches a global audience, highlighting the University’s research excellence and leadership. 

ORBilu enables open access to institutional research output, which offers value to all whose aims are to accelerate research, ensure a return on public investment by sharing research outcomes and make an impact where it is needed the most. It reflects our commitment to transparency, trust, and Open Science. 

ORBilu makes it easy to discover our researchers and their work. As a discovery tool, our research projects and academics collaborating on projects, can be explored anytime and anywhere.. References in ORBilu appear in library catalogues, open access platforms, social media, Google Scholar, and more. This visibility is especially important for grey literature—less formal research outputs that are often hard to find but play a key role in evidence-based work like systematic reviews. Many innovative ideas come from this type of literature. 

Are the references submitted to ORBilu really visible?

All references are automatically 'pushed' everywhere online by ORBilu, to places where people search for scientific information (library catalogues, open access resources, social networks, Google Scholar etc.). They are also visible through the essential web tools such as search engines, e.g. Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. but also on specialised tools such as Open Access harvesters, social networks and other such information tools and databases.

A publication on ORBilu is just a few clicks away from being distributed as widely as possible:

• Via library websites, indexed on the discovery tools used by academic and scientific libraries around the world. These are vast databases that allow users to search millions of references such as scientific papers, books, chapters, grey literature etc. via a single interface.  For example, all ORBilu content is also indexed on A-Z.lu here in Luxembourg.
• Via Open Access search tools that specialise in scientific information. These are powerful search engines that rely on the Open Archives Intiative (OAI) metadata sharing protocol to harvest various sources, for example institutional repositories or open archives. Examples include: BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), PubMed (medicine and health search engine), MOSA (Luxembourg & Belgium), ISIDORE (for humanities & social sciences), CORE (Open Access research papers), OpenAire (European research).
• Via social networks, as ORBilu allows 'sharing' of deposited articles to Twitter and displays altmetric data (alternative impact measure to content on the Internet).

• The entire ORBilu directory, as a whole, is referenced in OpenDOAR - Directory of Open Access Repositories, ROAR - Registry of Open Access Repositories and the ISSN portal.