ULiège Library is involved in numerous projects, of which here is an overview. For a more comprehensive view of our projects and collaborations, explore our annual reports (in French).
Compass to Publish
Compass to Publish, designed by ULiège Library, allows researchers to assess the legitimacy of the journals in which they wish to publish through a questionnaire accompanied by information pages.
DONum
DONum (Dépôt d’Objets Numérisés) is a portal that hosts collections of digitised items from the collections of the various University of Liège departments. These items, which vary widely in nature (manuscripts, scientific tools or instruments, works of art, etc.), are both testaments to centuries of study and research and sources for our current researchers and students. Making these ‘items’ accessible online also enables us to establish the best possible conditions for conserving the originals.
Contact: Renaud Adam
The electronic duxionary (Casanova's papers and manuscripts)
Marco Leeflang (1933-2022), a renowned Dutch Casanova scholar, has donated to the ULiège Library a collection of documents relating to the Casanova archives, mainly from Dux (Duchkov, now in the Czech Republic), currently held in the Prague Archives (Státní oblastní archiv v Praze).
The Electronic Duxionary is a fusion of two digital "toolboxes" developed by Marco Leeflang and is freely and easily accessible online. It makes available to all the long-term work carried out by Marco Leeflang (1933-2022) to help researchers prepare their work on Casanova's manuscripts.
Contact for the scientific content: Françoise Tilkin
Contact for ULiège Library: Paul Thirion
e-publish
E-Publish is ULiège Library’s platform for publishing digital books.
It is a writing, co-writing and publishing tool and complies with the most recent standards for structured publishing.
With its 100% digital format, e-Publish:
- enables various enhancements (images, sounds and links);
- facilitates indexing and referencing;
- enables commenting;
- enables continuous publishing (continual updating of the same publication).
Contact : Pascale Renders
Erasmus Staff Training Week
In partnership with the University of Liège's International Relations Department, ULiège Library regularly organises an Erasmus Staff Training Week, based on a theme that affects libraries. Since 2014, we have focused particularly on Open Access. In 2019, the topic of the week was ‘SGB as a means to modernise the library’.
Contact: Dominique Chalono, François Renaville
Famous Scholars ULiège
Organised in collaboration with ULiège teachers and researchers, the ‘Famous Scholars’ project aims to highlight their predecessors, who have had a profound impact on scientific research (from the University of Liège and the former Gembloux Faculty of Agricultural Sciences). For the university’s bicentennial in 2017, ULiège Library joined forces with the ULiège communications department to present these great figures from various perspectives: their research, their background and their scientific publications which are available on ORBi (with the full text in most cases).
Contact: orbi@uliege.be
Famous Scholars sur le site web institutionnel
Graphic Medicine
The Graphic Medicine research project, initiated in 2021 and coordinated by M. Bardiau, involves using graphic novels on health topics as educational interventions to improve the soft skills (empathy, communication, etc.) of healthcare professionals with their patients.
Several pilot studies have been set up. The first aims to assess the impact of reading a graphic novel (on bipolarity) on the development of interpersonal skills (empathy and communication) in pharmacy students in their 1st Bachelor's and 2nd Master's degrees. A second, similar pilot project was developed for General Medicine students (using a graphic novel on Crohn's disease). Finally, a multi-disciplinary, inter-faculty teaching seminar on One Health and zoonotic diseases is currently under development. This seminar uses the artpentage technique, a collective reading of a reference book, with the reading of a graphic novel beforehand.
Related publications :
- Utilisation de romans graphiques centrés sur des thèmes de santé comme ressource pédagogique pour le développement des Soft Skills chez les étudiants en Pharmacie
- Graphic Medicine used to improve soft skills of pharmacy students
Legito
The Legito catalogue lists nearly 36,000 references from a heritage collection of more than 41,000 documents:
- our incunabula and ancient documents that were printed before 1831;
- certain rare or precious documents that were printed after 1830;
- our mediaeval, modern and contemporary manuscripts;
- our archive collections.
Contact: Laurence Richelle, François Renaville, Cécile Oger
MatheO
MatheO (Master Thesis Online) is the portal for accessing University of Liège masters' dissertations. This ULiège Library project not only aims to provide a solution to the problem of ‘paper’ archiving and sustainable conservation, but to offer much broader accessibility and visibility to these student works, many of which are of a high quality.
Contact: François Paquot
Mosa
Mosa aims to highlight Open Access research produced by scholars from Belgian and Luxembourgish institutions.
More than 10 repositories are daily harvested in Mosa.
The Mosa interface exists in French, Dutch, German and English. All Mosa open access publications are already accessible via the ULiège Library catalogue.
Contact: François Renaville
ORBi
In 2007, the University of Liège's Board of Directors decided to create ORBi (Open Repository and Bibliography) and then implement a compulsory submission policy through the adoption of an institutional mandate. ORBi, a ULiège bibliography and institutional repository, today forms part of a vast network of open archives internationally.
Contact: Paul Thirion
ORBiLu ORBi UMons
Emerging from a partnership agreement that was signed in May 2012 between the University of Liège and the University of Luxembourg, ORBilu went live in 2013. The Uni.lu now has an interface for promoting its research, just like ORBi, enabling it to gain visibility and participate in the development of the Open-Access movement.
The University of Mons had its own institutional repository since 2011 and implemented a mandatory deposit policy the following year. However, faced with certain limitations of their tool, UMONS expressed the desire to see it evolve in order to better meet the needs of the institution and its researchers.
It is in this context, and due to its expertise in Open Access, that the University of Mons requested the ORBi team from the University of Liège to develop a specific instance of ORBi, tailored to their specific needs. This version has been available since 2022.
Contact: Paul Thirion
Projet PEP'S
The Pep’s (Plan de préservation et d'exploitation des patrimoines de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Plan to preserve and exploit the heritage of the French Community of Belgium), which was adopted by the government in October 2007, is a digitisation plan for the cultural and heritage collections conserved in museums, archives, libraries, audiovisual institutions, etc.
Since 2013, ULiège Library has been working with the Pep’s delegation.
Pep’s first part (french)
Pep's second part (french)
Pep's third part (french)
To be continued...
Contact: Renaud Adam
PoPuPS
Within the framework of its Open-Access support policy, ULiège Library developed a publication portal for scientific periodicals in 2005. It enables the managers of university periodicals to disseminate their periodicals in full text format under open access, quickly and easily. A new, more modern and enhanced interface is currently being developed.
Contact : Pascale Renders
URBi
URBi (University/Unified Repository of Biographies) is a draft application for managing the CVs of institutional members, based on the ORBi institutional directory model. In the same way that ORBi enables the automatic management and generation of lists of publications based on different models, URBi would offer the same features, but for biographical data. This project was entrusted to ULiège Library by the Institution.
Contact: Paul Thirion