The University of Iowa is using ORCID to help with faculty research reporting and assessing scholarly activities, specifically at the Carver College of Medicine, using a custom “Create & Connect” ORCID portal. With the goal of gathering more data on faculty publications, citation counts, and indices for the College of Medicine’s home-built faculty scholarship database, … Read More
Originally posted at knowledgeunlatched.org Berlin, 16 May 2019. Free access to scientific content is often limited due to the fragile technical infrastructure around it: content is stored in a variety of versions at various locations and without any uniform search functionalities. The Open Access initiative Knowledge Unlatched has addressed this growing problem and is now launching … Read More
If you have time for some light reading, check out the latest ORCID Annual Report – see a few visual highlights below! 1. ORCID is supported by over 1,000 member organizations in 45 countries: 2. Members are integrating their systems with the ORCID API: 3. Researchers and their affiliated organizations are establishing authenticated connections via … Read More
LYRASIS is proud to partner with the Academy of Certified Archivists to offer a LYRASIS Learning discount to all ACA members for LYRASIS Learning to access more than 25+ classes that are pre-certified for Archival Recertification Credits (ARCs). These credits are needed to maintain ACA certification. Click to browse LYRASIS classes. Pre-certified classes include: …and more! Click to browse … Read More
Article originally appeared on fulcrum.org In late February 2019, the Fulcrum team invited Megan Forbes and Laurie Arp from LYRASIS to facilitate a workshop based on the “It Takes A Village Framework” guidebook. The It Takes a Village project was funded in 2017 by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to bring together open source programs serving cultural … Read More
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) became an ORCID member in June 2017, led by the VCU Libraries in partnership with the Office of Research and Innovation. In addition to recognizing the value of ORCID for helping researchers distinguish themselves and keep track of their work and affiliations, key stakeholders at VCU, such as the Graduate School, … Read More