(6 Aug 2024) Stanford University is one example of a university that chose to integrate ORCID into its centralized identity management system, which it did to comply with US research security directives issued by the National Security Presidential Memorandum-33, better known as NSPM-33. Stanford University offers an ideal case study for similar research institutions that already…
(20 Dec 2022) As we close out 2022, our 10th year since the launch of the ORCID registry, staff writer Élan Young sat down with Executive Director Chris Shillum to capture some of his thoughts about his highlights for the year, as well as some things he expects ORCID to do in 2023. Find…
(6 May 2022) ORCID is seeking a Grant Program Officer / Engagement Lead for our newly developed Global Participation Program, which aims to improve equity of participation in ORCID in currently underrepresented regions, especially the Global South. If you like to foster teamwork and genuine collaboration, are self-motivated, organized, dedicated, and enjoy the mission-driven environment of a fast-paced…
(31 Aug 2021) The ORCID DE Monitor is a publicly funded tool that analyzes the use of ORCID iDs in the scientific community. Developed by the ORCID DE research project, the ORCID DE Monitor both measures and contributes to ORCID adoption. The ORCID DE Monitor currently provides a cartographic representation of the occurrence of ORCID iDs…
(5 Sep 2019) ORCID’s Funder Working Group, part of the ORBIT (ORCID Reducing Burden and Improving Transparency) initiative, today published three reports summarizing their work to date. The reports cover ORCID and grant DOIs and the use of ORCID in grant applications and grant reporting processes. Collectively, they summarize how and why to use ORCID and other persistent identifiers at all…
(26 Jul 2019) Austria has taken a major step to adopt ORCID on a national scale. The official ORCID Austria launch event took place in Vienna on June 13. Co-hosted by consortium lead organizations TU Wien and the University of Vienna, supported by ORCID and E-Infrastructures Austria Plus, this was the third ORCID workshop in Austria, but the…
(28 June 2019) PLOS today announced that its collaboration with ORCID now includes credit for reviewers. For more than five years, PLOS authors have used ORCID to make their professional lives easier. Now reviewers at PLOS can take advantage of the same benefits to track their contributions, claim credit, and build up their research profiles. Same ORCID, now…
(17 Apr 2019) Library Carpentries and ORCID are co-hosting a webinar on What’s New at ORCID. Registration is free — just add your name here — and there will be plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion. This webinar, at 10am ET on Thursday, May 16, will focus on ORCID’s new API v3.0, launching in May, which includes some…
(5 Mar 2019) A full report and the anonymized data set are now available; some of the learning points for ORCID include: Disambiguation of researchers was the top reason given for joining ORCID, and most respondents focus on using ORCID to help researchers. However, user adoption is seen as the biggest challenge to implementing ORCID Access to the member API…
(25 February 2019) Redalyc was one of ORCID’s earliest supporters in Latin America and they’ve used ORCID to build an infrastructure that supports researchers. Redalyc offers author profile pages and tools for specific editions of scientific journals, in order to support the sustainability of Open Access in the region. ORCID interviewed with Redalyc’s Executive Director, Arianna Becerril, to…