This blog was originally posted by the ORCID organization: https://info.orcid.org/orcid-us-community-consortium-celebrates-200th-member/ We are delighted to announce that the ORCID US Community consortium, which is the largest ORCID community of practice in the world, recently signed its 200th member in July. Formed in 2018 by four existing consortia in the US with 88 members, the community had … Read More
The ORCID US Community is steadily growing, with plenty of exciting updates and important information from across the community below. Past newsletters can be found in the ORCID US Community Blog. To contribute to future newsletters, please email orcidus@lyrasis.org. Stay well! Community Snapshot Member institutions = 197 (As of June 1, 2023) ORCID API system … Read More
Lyrasis is Open + The Library is Open! With the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Meeting quickly approaching next week, June 23 – 26, we are excited to share our theme for the year ahead: Lyrasis is Open + The Library Is Open! As a member-driven and community-focused organization, Lyrasis is here to support you. … Read More
On behalf of the entire Lyrasis staff and community, we would like to congratulate Michele Kimpton, Global Senior Director of The Palace Project, on her upcoming retirement, beginning June 30, 2023. Michele joined Lyrasis in June, 2021 to lead The Palace Project, an open source eBook platform and service. Luckily for Lyrasis, however, The Palace … Read More
Launched in January 2021, as a consortium for any non-profit in the US looking to get started with DataCite DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers), the Lyrasis DataCite US Community is dedicated to supporting open research infrastructure and best practices for making research and scholarly materials more FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. This is the second … Read More
Several ORCID US Community member organizations have expressed interest in using ORCID to help with graduate student success and assessment. This blog summarizes many of the considerations for promoting and using ORCID for grad students, including a case study from Indiana University Bloomington, where Willa Tavernier, Research Impact and Open Scholarship Librarian, has been leading … Read More