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.
Absolutely. Once a reference is deposited in ORBilu, its metadata is automatically shared, harvested and indexed by a wide range of scholarly discovery services, search engines, library catalogues and research information systems.
As a result, your research outputs become visible through:
Some tools that draw metadata and content from ORBilu: PubMed (medicine and health search engine), BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), MOSA (Luxembourg & Belgium), A-Z.lu, ISIDORE (for humanities & social sciences), CORE (Open Access research papers), OpenAire (European research), OpenAlex (the global research system)
In short, a deposit in ORBilu is not limited to the University of Luxembourg. It helps ensure that your research can be discovered, accessed and reused wherever researchers, students, policy-makers and the public search for scholarly information.
Deposit once. Be visible everywhere.
