Connect more researchers with your institutional integrations. What is ORCID Researcher Connect? Do you often wonder if you have researchers who have ORCID records but are not yet connected to your institutional systems? Researcher Connect is an initiative from ORCID to reach out to researchers and help give your organisation’s connections with ORCID records a … Continue reading “Have you signed up to ORCID Research Connect?”
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”
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?”
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”
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”
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”
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”
