Texas A&M University became an ORCID member in 2013, as one of the first universities in the US to get involved with ORCID. This blog post is based on a presentation by Aaron Retteen, Digital Services and Repository Librarian at the Texas A&M University School of Law, from an ORCID US Community call on the … Read More
Within the research and scholarly communication landscape, initiatives like ORCID are most beneficial to all parties involved when multiple stakeholders can work together to strategize for adoption and promotion of best practices. For universities participating in the ORCID US Community consortium, libraries have generally taken the lead in ORCID adoption efforts, which makes sense, because … Read More
As we wrap up the 2020 calendar year, we are looking into how the ORCID US Community has been affected by the global coronavirus pandemic this year, and reflecting on the progress we’ve made since the ORCID US Community consortium was launched three years ago in 2018. This is our fifth newsletter, featuring updates from … Read More
There are several ways that ORCID can be leveraged by funding organizations using Altum’s ProposalCentral platform for grant application and reporting workflows. The following information is also available in our recent webinar recording: Put ORCID to work for you in ProposalCentral: Outputs, Impact, and Keeping Track of Grantee Careers! What is already possible in ProposalCentral? … Read More
Within the last year, academic senate groups at Stanford University and the California State University (CSU) system have formally endorsed ORCID for their respective campuses, helping to draw awareness and prioritize the need for ORCID adoption at these campuses and beyond. The ORCID US Community consortium held a community call on June 16, 2020 to … Read More
The University of Rochester in New York became an ORCID member organization in 2017 initially through the NorthEast Research Libraries (NERL) consortium, prior to joining through the ORCID US Community consortium in 2018. This blog post is based on presentations by Lauren Di Monte, Assistant Dean, Digital & Research Strategies at University of Rochester River … Read More
The ORCID US Community continues to grow as we are now halfway through our third calendar year, while also facing the ripple effects of the global coronavirus pandemic. This is our fourth newsletter, featuring updates from across the community over the past 6 months. Past newsletters can be found in the ORCID US Community Blog. … Read More
On Thursday, May 7, 2020, the Academic Senate of the California State University (ASCSU) passed a resolution in support of ORCID for the California State University (CSU) system, which includes 23 campuses across California. In the resolution, the ASCSU “strongly encourage[s] CSU faculty, students, and administrators—whether past, present, or future—to sign up for an ORCID … Read More
There is currently a lot of buzz in the US about ORCID and something called “SciENcv” – but what is SciENcv and what do you need to know about it? SciENcv is a tool managed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that allows researchers to create a biographical sketch (biosketch) to submit with their … Read More
Researcher participation is key to unlocking the benefits of ORCID for both individuals and organizations, but as a relatively new technology, the value of ORCID is not always immediately understood by individual researchers who might initially think of ORCID as “yet another” thing they have to keep track of. In actuality, ORCID is not “yet … Read More
In the PID, persistent identifier, landscape an identifier is a label or reference which gives a unique name to an entity: a person, place, or thing. Identifiers can include ORCID for individuals, DOIs (digital object identifiers) for digital objects like articles and websites, and organization identifiers (ROR, which stands for Research Organization Registry, is a … Read More
January 27, 2020. HeinOnline, a product of William S. Hein & Co., Inc. has integrated with ORCID, enabling authors of legal publications to connect their ORCID iD with their Author Profile from within the HeinOnline platform. ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor Identifier) provides unique, persistent identifiers (ORCID iDs) for individuals to distinguish between researchers and … Read More