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
Florida State University (FSU) became a member of the ORCID US Community in spring of 2018 to help their researchers gain credit for their works and contributions, leverage the ORCID API for system interoperability, and get a better idea of institutional impact through more efficient reporting on grants and publications. Tiffany Phillips, IT support specialist … Read More
The ORCID US Community continues to grow as we wrap up our second calendar year. This is our third newsletter, featuring updates from across the community over the past 6 months. Past newsletters can be found in the ORCID US Community Blog. To contribute to future newsletters, please email orcidus@lyrasis.org. Community Snapshot Member institutions = … Read More
One of the most frequently asked questions from ORCID US Community institution representatives is: “How can I find out who at my institution has an ORCID iD?” This can be a tricky question for three primary reasons: ORCID iDs are controlled by the individual, not by an institution Individuals tend to move from one institution … Read More
VIVO is an open-source, community-driven software for research information management, used my numerous universities to represent researchers and their works and contributions, making it a perfect platform for ORCID integration. Basic ORCID functionality can be enabled in VIVO as described below. There is also a video tutorial on how to integrate ORCID and VIVO, and … Read More
ORCID US Community member North Carolina State University (NC State) has implemented an ORCID integration with the NC State University Libraries’ Citation Index, a custom system for recording publications by NC State faculty. While the Libraries have been harvesting faculty citations for over 10 years by manually searching in Web of Science and using a … Read More
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 records? In an effort to streamline reporting and get a better idea of institutional impact, … Read More
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 Member institutions = 117 Member ORCID activity: 49% of members have integrated ORCID with one or more … Read More