This article firstly examines the visibility of a sample of scientific literature produced by ULiège geographers in the commercial bibliographic databases and the Google Scholar search engine. The role of our institutional repository, ORBi, in the better visibility of references is also assessed. In our study we analysed the referencing of a sample of publications by the multidisciplinary commercial databases, Scopus and WoS, the specialized GeoRef, and the search engine GS. Factors such as the language of publication, the distribution between S&T and SS&H were also considered in the study. The results show that the distribution of the publications of the members of the Geography Department between the types of documents is different according to the orientation of the subject towards SS&H or S&T, even if the journal articles constitute the main type of publications, whatever the sub-discipline. In SS&H, the chapters, the parts of books, as well as the articles and communications are mainly in French. Compared to commercial DBs the performances of GS are superior for our sample of publications. These findings support the contribution of the ORBi institutional repository to improving GS’s 'performance with regard to the indexing of geographers' publications and to giving better visibility of French-speaking geographic literature.