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Global first for UKRI – recording funding peer review contributions in ORCID records

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”

Excellent it is…….UK Consortium wins award from ORCID

The UK ORCID consortium has been recognised as a community that works together for the common good. Jisc is proud to serve this community in the role of consortium lead. The award was given by ORCID officially “For excellence in investing in supporting infrastructure” aka the “Yoda” – For being the force that binds us … Continue reading “Excellent it is…….UK Consortium wins award from ORCID”

Funders sign up to ORCID Open Letter

ORCID have released an Open Letter from funders which shows a public commitment to implementing best practice ORCID workflows. The following funders have so far signed up: FWF/Austrian Science Fund National Research Foundation (South Africa) Howard Hughes Medical Institute (USA) Wellcome Trust (UK) Research Council of Norway CAPES (Brazil) The Royal Society (UK) UKRI (UK) … Continue reading “Funders sign up to ORCID Open Letter”

Building the UK ORCID consortium

The Jisc UK ORCID consortium will be three this year and we recently welcomed our 90th member, Liverpool Hope University. In this post we reflect on the growth of ORCID both globally and in the UK and outline some plans for the future. The growth of ORCID ORCID celebrated its fifth birthday last October and … Continue reading “Building the UK ORCID consortium”

eprints.org ORCID Advance Support plug-in released

A plugin for the eprints.org repository software has been released to take advantage of the ORCID member API. The plugin, which has been developed in a collaboration between Jisc and eprints.org services, with input from the eprints.org community, brings new functionality to take full advantage of ORCID membership and offer improved services to repository users … Continue reading “eprints.org ORCID Advance Support plug-in released”

Newsflash – ORCID responds to delegating tokens discussions

Newsflash! ORCID have responded positively to the previous blog posting (Revoking ORCID tokens). They have now brought forward the implementation of the revocation API that we discussed. We advise all ORCID partners to start making use of it to limit the number of unnecessarily active tokens. More details can be found here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/orcid-api-users/xMNKBsAMs50/OAXqOmZICAAJ Many thanks … Continue reading “Newsflash – ORCID responds to delegating tokens discussions”

European Commission report recommends ORCID adoption

The recent European Commission report on next generation metrics (full report only available as a pdf) recommends that the EC adopt ORCID for grant applications, management and reporting platforms. RECOMMENDATION #8 states that: “The European research system and Open Science Cloud should adopt ORCID as its preferred system of unique identifiers, and an ORCID iD … Continue reading “European Commission report recommends ORCID adoption”

ORCID announce 2.0 API

In the latest newsletter delivered in early February, ORCID announced the upcoming release of version 2.0 of their API.  The 2.0 API is now available on the production registry.  ORCID will be offering webinars to help with the transition between 1.2 and 2.0.  The aim is for all systems to move to using 2.0 by … Continue reading “ORCID announce 2.0 API”