2021 is the fifth anniversary of ORCID’s Trust Program and we’re celebrating with a series of blog posts that outline our thinking about how we balance the sometimes-competing priorities of researcher control and data quality, while adhering to our values of openness, trust and inclusivity. As adoption of ORCID grows, we are constantly presented with […]
Manage your affiliations with a few simple clicks
Our brand new Affiliation Manager is finally here! In case you haven’t heard about it, our Affiliation Manager, the first of our Member Portal tools, makes it easy for consortium members to add affiliation data to ORCID records by simply uploading a CSV file. An assertion tool for ORCID consortium members At the time of […]
DOE OSTI Search & Link Wizard Added to ORCID
To ensure Department of Energy (DOE)-funded researchers are easily and accurately connected to their works to facilitate the acknowledgement, citation, discovery, and reuse of information, ORCID added the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) Search & link wizard to its platform on March 1, 2021. Search & link wizards are ORCID’s recommended way […]
Giving CRediT where CRediT is Due
A special thank you to Véronique Kiermer, Chief Scientific Officer at PLOS, for her contribution of historical context for CRediT. The many roles of research A lot goes into the work of research: studies are conceptualized; funding is secured; methods and software are developed; data is collected, analyzed, and curated. So much of this work […]
ORCID’s API version policy
We’ve recently published our API Version Policy which explains our approach and provides some historical context for how we have got to where we are today. We invite you to take a look and, as always, we welcome feedback from our community.