advocacy

ORCID Advocacy at University of Reading: Lessons from “Keep on Plugging Away”

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””

The UK ORCID Advocacy Toolkit CoCreation Story

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”

ORCIDs in the Wild: A Field Guide to the Popular Persistent Identifier

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”

iDentifying your researchers: challenges and opportunities

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”