ORCID UK Support Blog

ORCID Advocacy at University of Reading: Lessons from “Keep on Plugging Away”

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””

Renewal for 2025 UK ORCID consortium membership now open

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”

Members setting up vendor systems with the ORCID API – updated

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”

Roll-up, roll-up 2024 members’ day in-person

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”

Data Protection and ORCID: One year on

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.

The UK ORCID Advocacy Toolkit CoCreation Story

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”

Institutional ORCID mandates – are they a good idea?

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?”

ORCID UK community drop-in sessions

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”

2022 Community Call

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”

Managing researcher identity and name changes using ORCID

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”