Fifth Round of Global Participation Fund Awardees Announced

This project by the Center for Scientific and Technical Information (CSTI) aims to introduce ORCID as the persistent Scholar ID (PID) in Uzbekistan. CSTI has identified that lack of accurate scholar data in a consistent format—notably the name ambiguity—has led to poor quality databases of research publications and other scholarly works. The project will help provide an overarching perspective that can speak to stakeholders with different interests. It will yield a holistic view or understanding of context, conditions, and contingencies to inform assessments, situate interests, and facilitate decision-making.

The project by XploreOpen will build an ORCID Community of Practice through bilingual training, workshops, and online resources tailored to the needs of researchers, administrators, and librarians. By training 200 individuals and establishing a network of 100 ORCID advocates, it will foster sustained adoption, empowering researchers to connect globally. Indirectly, the project could impact over 10,000 individuals as trained advocates disseminate knowledge and integrate ORCID into institutional workflows. This project fosters equitable ORCID adoption in underrepresented research communities, including Higher Education Institutions, Research and Development organizations, and regional institutions. The initiative targets a 25 percent adoption increase and builds capacity, strengthens infrastructure, and promotes open research in Pakistan.

The goal of the project by Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium, is to set up an ORCID Community of Practice for Higher Education Institutions in Zimbabwe comprising at least 4,000 members. The project’s objectives include training of librarians, IT personnel, researchers and administrators from Higher Education Institutions in Zimbabwe, setting up a steering committee to drive establishment of an ORCID Community of Practice, equipping librarians, journal editors, managers, and researchers with skills to integrate ORCIDs and other persistent identifiers on scholarly platforms. Sixty participants will be drawn from the 20 universities in Zimbabwe, with three members from each institution expected to return to their respective institutions to train others and implement the project.

This project by Lyrasis aims to implement a direct integration of ORCID and VIVO, an open-source RIM/CRIS system used in the Global South, to enable users to authenticate into VIVO with their ORCID IDs and populate their ORCID profile information from VIVO, and to connect collaborators of global scientific communities.

This will be the first step towards the eventual goal of VIVO becoming a ORCID Certified Service Provider and will move VIVO’s ORCID support from passive (users can currently only link their ORCID ID to their VIVO profile) to active. The project also includes a translation of the integration documents into Spanish and Ukrainian and offers instructional webinars with live interpretation. Enabling globally distributed VIVO instances to push researcher data to ORCID will help build a better open data ecosystem of researchers’ works, maximizing visibility and impact of researchers from the target regions.

This project integrates ORCID into key Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST) platforms: PRSM (OJS), Otrohati, and Toubkal (Dspace). Otrohati publishes research topics of ongoing theses, while Toubkal reports defended theses from national research institutions. These platforms currently lack ORCID integration. The project will upgrade them to ORCID-compatible versions, establish secure connections, and conduct outreach and training across Moroccan research institutions, promoting ORCID adoption and improving research visibility.

The proposed project aims to integrate ORCID, the global standard for research identification, into the Information and Library Network Centre’s (INFLIBNET’s) existing scholarly network projects. By facilitating ORCID integration, we strive to streamline research workflows, improve data accuracy, and promote greater transparency within the systems/platforms in scholarly communications that align with international standards. Currently, there is a lack of standardized researcher identification in these projects.