Lyrasis Receives ORCID Global Participation Fund Grant to Support ORCID Integration Improvements in DSpace

March 8, 2024By LyrasisLyrasis
Lyrasis Receives ORCID Global Participation Fund Grant to Support ORCID Integration Improvements in DSpace

In February 2024, ORCID announced the third round of Global Participation Fund recipients, including a proposal submitted by Lyrasis for improvements to ORCID functionality in DSpace. ORCID’s relatively new Global Participation Fund program, launched in 2022 as part of ORCID’s Global Participation Program, is designed to support equity of access to ORCID, improving the visibility of … Read More

Third Annual LyrOpen Fair

March 4, 2024By LyrasisConferences & Events, Products & Partnerships
Third Annual LyrOpen Fair

The third annual LyrOpen Fair will be held virtually in April 2024, with five webinars exploring the open research and scholarship ecosystem — an introductory session followed by four sessions, each dedicated to different aspects of open. Presentations feature a variety of speakers. Detailed information about each session, including registration, is available below. Any of the … Read More

Lyrasis and the Royal Society of Chemistry Sign Transformative Open Access Agreement

March 4, 2024By LyrasisContent and Scholarly Communications, Lyrasis
Lyrasis and the Royal Society of Chemistry Sign Transformative Open Access Agreement

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Lyrasis have entered into an open access publishing agreement to accelerate momentum toward global open access scholarship. This partnership is one of the first and largest library consortium-based open access agreements with RSC in the United States to date. This groundbreaking agreement enables all corresponding authors affiliated with … Read More

ORCID Campus Outreach at the University of Nevada Las Vegas

February 19, 2024By LyrasisORCID US
ORCID Campus Outreach at the University of Nevada Las Vegas

The University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) reinvigorated their ORCID outreach efforts during the global pandemic in 2020, engaging the university’s stakeholders with successful results. UNLV, an ORCID US Community member, was granted an R1 research status in 2018. With this new distinction, more support for researchers to increase research activity has become a priority. … Read More

How Persistent Identifiers Work Together in the Research Ecosystem

February 19, 2024By LyrasisLyrasis, ORCID US
How Persistent Identifiers Work Together in the Research Ecosystem

Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are part of the open research infrastructure that helps to make research and scholarly resources more FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable).  According to the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science and Technical Information, “A PID is a digital identifier that is globally unique, persistent, machine resolvable, has an associated metadata … Read More