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Managing researcher identity and name changes using ORCID

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”

Tools for our members – who has an ORCID ID?

At the end of February 2019, the UK ORCID consortium looks set to reach 100 member institutions. Since the launch in 2015, our members have been involved in creating a community of ORCID implementors. As a community, we consider strategies to tackle challenges that span policy, advocacy and technical infrastructure. We work together towards solutions … Continue reading “Tools for our members – who has an ORCID ID?”

A national ORCID Hub – sharing experience and developments from New Zealand

What is the New Zealand ORCID Hub – and do we need something similar in the UK? Join us for a webinar and a working session at the upcoming ORCID member’s meeting to learn about the New Zealand ORCID Hub and to feed into a discussion on the need for a UK equivalent. What is … Continue reading “A national ORCID Hub – sharing experience and developments from New Zealand”

What EPrints users want from ORCID integration

The JISC ORCID support project is all about helping the community make progress with ORCID integration at their institutions in order to realise the benefits of ORCID for the institution and their researchers. We are delighted to offer this guest blog post by Lizz Jennings (University of Bath) and Helen Cooper (University of Central Lancashire), who … Continue reading “What EPrints users want from ORCID integration”

May 25th workshop – institutional repositories and ORCID

At the end of May, some of the institutions in the UK that are implementing ORCID met at an event organised by Jisc for members of the Jisc ORCID consortium. Notes from the event are available online; in this blog post I have written up the notes I made at the sessions on institutional repositories … Continue reading “May 25th workshop – institutional repositories and ORCID”

May 25th workshop – functional and technical synthesis

Since the ORCID UK Members workshop on 25 May in Birmingham, involving over 70 people, the Jisc team has been working to extract and synthesise the functional and technical issues, challenges and opportunities, current and emerging, identified across all the workshop sessions. This includes Use Cases, including the near and wider ecosystem and Technical Requirements, … Continue reading “May 25th workshop – functional and technical synthesis”