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”
On 1 October 2021 Jisc signed, on behalf of all members of the UK ORCID Consortium, the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) issued by ORCID. This was communicated, via email, to the main contacts of all consortium members on 28 October. The email included the signed SCCs and the letter from ORCID to Jisc referencing the … Continue reading “Standard Contractual Clauses and the GDPR”
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”
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”
Overview The UK ORCID consortium’s first community members’ event of 2021 was also the first event after submissions for REF 2021. As such, it was a good opportunity to take stock of the role that ORCID iDs had (or hadn’t) played in REF preparations and what lessons could be learned for the future. In this … Continue reading “UK ORCID community 2021 launch meeting”
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”
Alas we cannot give you the answer to the million-dollar question “What can we expect in 2021?”, as we do not have that crystal ball, but what we can do is to provide some UK ORCID consortium updates, including some changes in staffing in the Jisc ORCID support team. Events and community Like in any other sphere of … Continue reading “What’s next for the consortium in 2021?”
