While African academic institutions are rapidly expanding their digital infrastructure, researcher name ambiguity, incomplete metadata, and siloed researcher records continue to limit their institutional and scholarly impact. Interconnected persistent identifiers […]
Announcing the Global Participation Fund 8th Round Awardees
We are pleased to announce the latest round of awardees for the ORCID Global Participation Fund (GPF). This eighth round of grants marks over $700,000 in funds dispersed since the GPF’s […]
ORCID in Action: Amplifying African Research Visibility
African research is dynamic, diverse, and growing, yet it remains underrepresented in global scholarly databases. To explore how persistent identifiers can elevate African research internationally, we recently hosted the first […]
ORCID at Scale: The Community Hub Model
Those who’ve been around the ORCID Community might already be familiar with the ORCID Consortium model. But what exactly is an ORCID Hub? An easy way to distinguish between them […]
Announcing the Global Participation Fund 7th Round Awardees
We are delighted to celebrate our newest Global Participation Fund (GPF) recipients who are joining a growing roster of GPF awardees across the Global South dedicated to making research more visible, […]
Uganda Consortium Brings Research to the International Stage
The launch of the Ugandan ORCID Consortium this month came to fruition when RENU, Uganda’s National Research and Education Network, recognized the need for researchers to be more interconnected in […]
From Challenge to Impact: How Uzbekistan Transformed its Research Landscape with a Global Participation Fund Grant
ORCID is pleased to highlight another remarkable success story from our Global Participation Fund (GPF) program, which is designed to increase ORCID adoption and foster ORCID Communities of Practice in countries […]
Now Announcing the Sixth Round of GPF Awardees
Now in the sixth round, the Global Participation Fund (GPF) grant program have disbursed over 500,000 since its launch since its launch in 2022 to build equity into ORCID adoption […]
Growing Together in Sub-Saharan Africa: ORCID Adoption Boosts Bioethics Research
ORCID’s Global Participation Fund, launched in 2022, has distributed 26 grants totalling $465,000 to 17 countries in the Global South to date. Recipients include organizations in countries with low- and […]
Global Participation Fund Round Five Awardees Announced
ORCID’s Global Participation Fund (GPF) has now awarded its fifth round of applicants since the program began in 2022. The GPF was established for the purpose of providing grants to Increase […]