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?”
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”
This blog posts provides highlights of four webinars presented by ORCID over the last few months, honing in on the topics of most interest to our members. With many demands on your time, we help you to get to the information you need more easily. We have provided timings for sections of these webinars so … Continue reading “Highlights of ORCID webinars September to November 2020”
Every year the UK consortium plans events for institutional members. We plan these as needed depending on priorities for members at different times and specific aims the community agrees on to make progress with ORCID implementation in UK Higher Education. Hackdays and training events are two types of meeting we have used to help exchange … Continue reading “Consortium events round-up for the summer of 2020”
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”
The Jisc UK ORCID Support Team was represented by Balviar Notay and Monica Duke at the Open Repositories 2019 conference held in Hamburg between 10th and 13th June, 2019. They presented a paper on behalf of the UK ORCID consortium giving an overview of the experience and growth of the consortium, with a focus on … Continue reading “ORCID UK consortium at Open Repositories 2019”
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”
