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”
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””
One year on from the publication of a blog post by supporter of ORCID, Andrew Cormack, we wanted to remind our community of his contribution to the UK ORCID Consortium and remember a cherished friend and colleague. His words then are as relevant as ever.
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”
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”
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”
The Jisc UK ORCID Consortium is 5 years old this year. Each year we bring our members together in our annual event to share experiences, updates and knowledge across our community of practice. Originally, we had planned a celebration, involving a big cake (not big enough to have someone jump out of, although this was … Continue reading “#BakeItOrFakeIt Elevenses”
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”
How ORCID UK Consortium members manage the information about their ORCID contacts within their institution is changing. ORCID have mandated that all Consortium Consortia must start using their Self Service contacts management system by the end of this calendar year. The Jisc UK consortium is in the process of making this switch. After the switch, … Continue reading “Preparing for ORCID Self Service – actions and webinar”
