An Update from Jisc In February 2023, our late colleague Andrew Cormack wrote an insightful blog post titled “Data Protection Benefits with ORCID”, exploring how ORCID’s practices aligned with data protection principles. A year later, Jisc followed up with “Data Protection and ORCID: One Year On”, remembering Andrew’s contributions and affirming the ongoing relevance of … Continue reading “ORCID, Privacy, and Trust”
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?”
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”
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”
