This week we are delighted to welcome our five millionth ORCID registrant, a researcher in Hungary — an important and exciting milestone to reach less than six years after our October […]
Mapping the PID Landscape
This post was co-authored with Christopher Brown and Neil Jacobs (Jisc), Josh Brown and Laure Haak (ORCID), and Clifford Tatum (SURF) The landscape of research information is largely closed to […]
Enter Once, Reuse Often
If someone asks you, as a researcher, what you hate most about your work, the chances are you will say form-filling. Keying in the same information, time after time – […]
Recognizing our community of contributors
Over the years ORCID – and our community – have benefited from countless volunteer contributions – from the individuals and organizations that recognized the need for a researcher identifier and […]
Collecting the Evidence
WIth over 4.5m users, 850 members, and over 550 member integrations, ORCID is clearly valued by our community. But how can we actually measure that value? Are researchers experiencing automated […]
Five Key Takeaways from ORCID’s First Consortia Workshop
We held our first-ever consortia workshop in Lisbon, Portugal on 17 January. Hosted by FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), the workshop grew out of our 2017 survey […]
Happy Holidays from the ORCID Team!
Season’s greetings from all of us, and our thanks to everyone for your support in 2017! Download our 3D cookie cutter pattern if you’d like to try your hand at making […]
Announcing the #PIDapalooza18 Lineup!
PIDs’R’Us and, if they’re you too, please join us in Girona, Spain, on January 23-24 for two days of PID-filled discussions and celebrations. Together, we will do the impossible – […]
Building Information Infrastructure with Research Institutions
Research institutions, together with associations, funders, publishers, and vendors, played a vital role in the launch of ORCID five years ago. Two institutions (Boston University and California Institution of Technology) […]
Announcing API 2.1 – ORCID iDs are now HTTPS!
We are delighted to announce that the latest version of our API, version 2.1, is now live. This version fully supports the canonical form of the ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097. The […]