Global Participation Fund Outcomes

2025

Round 5

Grants for Community Development and Outreach

• Implement ORCID based Scholar PID in Uzbekistan
  • The Center for Scientific and Technical Information (CSTI) aims to improve scholar data by introducing ORCID to the research community in Uzbekistan.
• Building ORCID Communities of Practice in Pakistan
  • The project by XploreOpen will build an ORCID Community of Practice that aims to increase ORCID adoption by 25% through bilingual training, workshops, and online resources designed to meet the needs of stakeholders in the research community.
• Establishment of an ORCID Community of Practice in Zimbabwe
  • The goal of this 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 by training of librarians, IT personnel, researchers and administrators from Higher Education Institutions in Zimbabwe

Grants for Technical Integration

• Enabling Global Communities: VIVO ORCID Integration
  • This project by Lyrasis aims to implement a direct integration with ORCID and VIVO, an open-source RIM/CRIS system popular across the Global South. With an integration, users will be able to authenticate into VIVO with their ORCID IDs and populate their ORCID profile information from VIVO, as well as connect collaborators of global scientific communities.
• ORCID Integration for Moroccan Research Platforms
  • This project by Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique aims to integrate ORCID into its key platforms: PRSM (OJS), Otrohati, and Toubkal (Dspace).
• ORCID Integration with the INFLIBNET’s Projects
  • This project by Information and Library Network Centre aims to integrate ORCID into the organization’s existing scholarly network projects to improve upon the workflows, data accuracy, and transparency through a researcher identification.

2024

Round 4

Grants for Community Development and Outreach

• Creating Persistent Digital Presence of Researcher
  • The goal of this project by the Department of Library & Information Sciences, Central University of Himachal Pradesh is to establish a persistent online presence of every researcher of India to improve discoverability.
• UConnect Consortium
  • The UConnect project by Research and Education Network in Uganda (RENU) is aimed at establishing an ORCID consortium in Uganda to foster a community of practice. 
• ORCID Community: KG Initiative
  • The project by The University of Central Asia is aimed at uniting researchers into a single network in Kyrgyzstan by conducting seminars for 35 universities with the participation of 600 scientists.

Grants for Technical Integration

• Connecting ORCID and Humanities Commons
  • This project by Michigan State University integrates ORCID with Humanities Commons (HC), a free, open scholarly communications platform with a global audience of nearly 50,000 users. The project aims to build a plugin that allows scholars to display their public ORCID data on any WordPress site while ensuring that two-way connections across the systems are enabled.
• Increased FAIRness via ORCID / Dataverse Integration
  • The Global Dataverse Community Consortium (GDCC) by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill proposes to support metadata integration between Dataverse, DataCite, and ORCID in conjunction with the global community, specifically with organizations and researchers in the Global South that use Dataverse.

Round 3

Grants for Community Development and Outreach

• Building an ORCID Bioethics Community of Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • In Sub-Saharan Africa’s diverse bioethics realm, this project by the Africa Bioethics Network aims to create a Community of Practice through activities such as strategic networking events, promoting collaboration, and leveraging ORCID’s full capabilities.
• Enhancing Interoperability of Indian Research Data
  • The main goal of this project by the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is to integrate the ORCID public API with the Indian scholarly ecosystem by training professionals managing journal sites and institutional repositories from each administrative zone of India who will further train professionals in their zones. The project will also develop bilingual video and text resources.
• Malawi ORCID Community
  • Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) aims to establish a Community of Practice in Malawi and leverage library resources to catalyze the adoption and integration of ORCID into university and research institution systems. 
• ORCID Adoption in Academic Institutions in Ghana
  • Regional Maritime University (RMU) aims to introduce ORCID in Ghana and spur adoption through nationwide training of librarians, faculty members, postgraduate students, and researcher through in-person training of participants with the help of the Ghana Library Association (GLA) and Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH).
• ORCID Community Development and Outreach in Uzbekistan
  • The focus of this project by Samarkand Branch of Tashkent State University of Economics will be on creating a Community of Practice in Uzbekistan with the aim of onboarding at least 25% of the country’s researchers to the ORCID system

Grants for Technical Integration

• ORCID Login improvement for DSpace-CRIS
  • Lyrasis aims to improve the ORCID functionality in DSpace, specifically with the login. DSpace is an open source repository software that has wide adoption in the Global South.

2023

Round 2

Grants for Community Development and Outreach

• ORCID Outreach Programme for Higher Education in India
  • The Information and Library Network Centre proposes to promote and create awareness of ORCID and to interconnect all scholarly communication activities in the country. INFLIBNET is an apex body of the government of India, connecting 43,000+ Higher Education(HE) institutions and 40 million scholars.
• Outreach and Promotion of ORCID in Africa and Asia
  • Information Training & Outreach Centre for Africa will publicize and promote ORCID across Sub-Saharan Africa & South-East Asia through outreach and promotional services. 
• Establishing Global South ORCID Membership Models
  • This project by Public Knowledge Project aims to establish ORCID memberships in Indonesian university, government, and publisher representatives and develop Indonesia’s technical capacity for upgrading OJS installations to support utilization of latest integrity features.
• Catalyzing ORCID Communities of Practice
  • This project by University of Sri Jayewardenepura aims to increase ORCID adoption in Sri Lanka and Maldives by creating awareness videos in local languages, creating videos from influential researchers, and running workshops promoting the GPF goals and ORCID in general.

Round 1

Grants for Community Development and Outreach

• African Scholarly Multi-stakeholder Consortia
  • This project by AfricArXiv – pan-African Open Access portal aims to establish ORCID-facilitated consortia to share scholarly knowledge from Africa efficiently.
• ORCID as Part of a Nigerian PID Implementation
  • Eko-Konnect Research and Education Initiative aims to initiate a campaign on the importance of PIDs for scholarly research output for Open Science across Nigeria. 
• Empowering Librarians as ORCID ToTs
  • Kenya Libraries and Information Services Consortium aims to leverage the influence of librarians in building a Community of Practice. The project aims to host a training of trainers and 21 librarians. They also intend to upgrade and integrate 21 institutional repositories developed in a previous project with ORCID API as well as develop self-learning materials to host on their website.
• Creating and Implementing a National ORCID Community
  • The Université Virtuelle De Côte D’Ivoire aims to expand the ORCID Community of Practice across Côte D’Ivoire by strengthening existing initiatives, such as the National Repository, local academic journals, and in general raise awareness and build capacity.

Grants for Technical Integration

• ORCID Login improvement for DSpace-CRIS
  • Technische Universität Hamburg aims to improve the ORCID login process to DSpace-CRIS, which is used throughout the Global South, and can be challenging for new and existing users who need to connect their account to ORCID.