The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) became an ORCID member in the spring of 2018 in response to a prominent internal question: How can UT Southwestern become listed as a trusted institution on their affiliated researchers’ ORCID […]
The ORCID US Community has made a lot of progress in the last year since this group was formed. This is our second newsletter, featuring updates from across the community over the last several months. To contribute to future newsletters, please email orcidus@lyrasis.org. Community Snapshot […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ORCID, which stands for “Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier,” provides individuals with a free, unique, persistent identifier that serves to distinguish individuals from each other and accurately connect individuals with their contributions and affiliated organizations over the course of their […]
Cornell is a founding member of ORCID, committed to the ORCID vision “where all who participate in research, scholarship, and innovation are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions across disciplines, borders, and time.” Cornell runs and operates arXiv.org, where […]
The University of Virginia Library has integrated ORCID with two of their institutional repositories: an Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) repository and an open repository, both running on Samvera. The ORCID configuration is set up as a microservice rather than […]
Boston College is one of the ORCID US Community member institutions leading the way for ORCID adoption at US research institutions (see current member list). Boston College became an ORCID member so they could take advantage of the name disambiguation, […]
Launched in January 2018 and officially staffed in May 2018, the ORCID US Community has come a long way this year! This is the first official ORCID US Community Newsletter, featuring 2018 highlights of ORCID activities across the community. To contribute to […]
The ORCID US Community, a national group of ORCID member research institutions in the United States led by LYRASIS, has reached 100 members, and counting! With support from Sheila Rabun, ORCID US Community Specialist at LYRASIS, the group is poised to […]
