From this week, the orders for the 2025 licence for the ORCID consortium can be ordered via Licensing Manager (this needs to be a person with access to this system). Emails went out earlier to main contacts with the link and the quote (also sent earlier in June) and anyone with access to licensing manager … Continue reading “Renewal for 2025 UK ORCID consortium membership now open”
Many of the UK consortium member institutions use vendor systems that are ORCID-enabled (like a CRIS or a repository). This means that the institution simply needs to obtain institution-specific credentials from ORCID for the member API which can then be set up in the vendor system. This blog post provides a convenient walk-through of the … Continue reading “Members setting up vendor systems with the ORCID API – updated”
5th of June 2024 sees the return of our popular UK ORCID Consortium members’ day meet-up held as an in-person event. Since 2020 we have run several online meetings in different formats and tackling different themes and activities. Now its time to meet up face to face again. The venue is the Crowne Plaza Birmingham … Continue reading “Roll-up, roll-up 2024 members’ day in-person”
One year on from the publication of a blog post by supporter of ORCID, Andrew Cormack, we wanted to remind our community of his contribution to the UK ORCID Consortium and remember a cherished friend and colleague. His words then are as relevant as ever.
In the run-up to the first community drop-in held this August, I had a query come in on ORCID mandate practices amongst our members,. This discussion topic crops up regularly 1, and consortium member organisations often have questions such as: I went away to look at some of the discussions and information we have built … Continue reading “Institutional ORCID mandates – are they a good idea?”
We have trialled a new type of meet-up for our UK ORCID consortium members with a monthly drop-in session which takes place in our Teams space. We’ve had three online meetings so far in August, September and October. Our last face to face meeting was in 2019 so we have been finding different ways to … Continue reading “ORCID UK community drop-in sessions”
For our first community event for the UK ORCID consortium this year, we held a community call on 7th June 2022. This blog post describes some of the topics discussed in this participant-led event. Affiliation Dashboard Paloma from ORCID talked us through the ‘Affiliation Dashboard’ – a recent addition to ORCID member portal – and … Continue reading “2022 Community Call”
UK ORCID Jisc consortium event report What were we interested in and why? In the UK, Jisc leads a consortium of ORCID implementors in higher education, consisting of nearly 100 Universities, research organisations and a major funder. ORCID is an identifier for contributors to research and is intended to help with continuity of identity for researchers across time, disciplines and … Continue reading “Managing researcher identity and name changes using ORCID”
As the lead organisation for the UK ORCID Consortium, we are delighted to see what is pragmatically a mandate for ORCID iD, for all contributors to a scholarly output in the new UKRI Open Access Policy Technical requirements for journals and publishing platforms (4g) and institutional and subject repositories (5d): common unique PIDs for research management information (for … Continue reading “UKRI OA policy – response from UK ORCID consortium lead”
Neil Jefferies is Head of Innovation for the Open Scholarship Support team at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University. Starting back in May 2014, he project-managed Oxford’s participation (along with seven other institutions) in the Jisc-ARMA ORCID Pilot that was a precursor to the establishment of the UK ORCID Consortium in August 2015. In June 2016, … Continue reading “Let’s meet………..Neil Jefferies”
