diff --git a/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/page/partials/headScripts.ftl b/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/page/partials/headScripts.ftl
index 139c07226..5eba194cc 100644
--- a/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/page/partials/headScripts.ftl
+++ b/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/page/partials/headScripts.ftl
@@ -4,5 +4,6 @@
 
 <!-- script for enabling new HTML5 semantic markup in IE browsers-->
 <script type="text/javascript" src="${urls.base}/js/html5.js"></script>
+<script type="text/javascript" src="${urls.base}/js/jquery.js"></script>
 
 ${headScripts.tags}
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