An Update from Jisc In February 2023, our late colleague Andrew Cormack wrote an insightful blog post titled “Data Protection Benefits with ORCID”, exploring how ORCID’s practices aligned with data protection principles. A year later, Jisc followed up with “Data Protection and ORCID: One Year On”, remembering Andrew’s contributions and affirming the ongoing relevance of … Continue reading “ORCID, Privacy, and Trust”
Background The University of Reading has been a member of the UK ORCID consortium since around 2016, focusing on promoting ORCID adoption among its research community. With research divided into four broad themes (Agriculture/Food/Health, Environment, Heritage/Creativity, and Prosperity/Resilience) and over 750 research staff, ensuring proper researcher identification has been an ongoing challenge. Our ORCID Journey … Continue reading “ORCID Advocacy at University of Reading: Lessons from “Keep on Plugging Away””
As members of the scholarly communication community, we all understand the importance of effective advocacy. It allows us to share our research and institution’s messages with the wider world and connect with communities that matter to us. However, creating advocacy materials that are useful to a diverse range of institutions can be challenging. That’s why … Continue reading “The UK ORCID Advocacy Toolkit CoCreation Story”
The Open Researcher and Contributor IDentifier (ORCID) launched as the persistent identifier for active people within scholarship 6 October 2012, has grown in use and popularity. The ORCID iD and the underlying ORCID record in the global registry, accessed via a RESTful API, can confidently be said to be the default way to identify real … Continue reading “ORCIDs in the Wild: A Field Guide to the Popular Persistent Identifier”
Researchers can now have their grant peer review contributions made visible and recognised when added to their ORCID Record by the UKRI’s Je-S funding platform. UKRI and nearly 100 UK Higher Education and research organisations are members of ORCID, an international non-profit organisation that is committed to help achieve recognition and support for researchers by … Continue reading “Global first for UKRI – recording funding peer review contributions in ORCID records”
The Jisc UK ORCID Consortium is 5 years old this year. Each year we bring our members together in our annual event to share experiences, updates and knowledge across our community of practice. Originally, we had planned a celebration, involving a big cake (not big enough to have someone jump out of, although this was … Continue reading “#BakeItOrFakeIt Elevenses”
The first UK ORCID Regional Meeting was held at the University of Salford on the 6th of February. These meetings have been organised in response to requests from our members to hold shorter, more focussed consortium meetings for groups so that they can be easily attended. The meeting began with introductions from the attendees who … Continue reading “Report: ORCID UK Regional Meetings – NW England”
The UK ORCID Consortium is happy to announce that booking is now open for the first regional meeting (Thursday 6 February, 13:30) in t’ North West and North of England, kindly hosted by the University of Salford. This participant-led event is in response to community demand for smaller, local events throughout the year and across … Continue reading “Jisc ORCID Regional Meetings – First Event in Salford coming up”
Our latest blog post is now available on our sister site. This article sets out the wider context in which the ORCID personal persistent identifier sits, it looks at some of the initiatives in which Jisc has driven the environment and policy forward, giving an overview of key engagements and identifiers. With thanks for … Continue reading “Evolving the PID landscape: The power of working together”
This post was edited on 19 June 2019 to correct a factual error in the information on asserting affiliation and update information on the way information was added in the ORCID registry web API When I first started at my current job in Jisc last year, I was asked to identify ORCID iDs connected with … Continue reading “iDentifying your researchers: challenges and opportunities”
