New Certified Service Providers

We are pleased to announce new service providers recertified under the new criteria:

Omega-PSIR is a free software application combining the functionality of CRIS system and Institutional Repository, used by approx. 50 universities. Omega-PSIR is continuously developed by the joined forces of Warsaw University of Technology, Member Universities, and Research Institutions as well as Sages, the company providing commercial software deployment and the support service.

ORCID plugin, developed by Sages, is used to collect and authenticate researcher iDs, display authenticated ORCID iDs, and synchronize research outputs registered in institutional CRIS powered by Omega-PSIR.

We are pleased to announce new service providers recertified under the new criteria:

Intembeko ORCID Hub is a portal that allows members of the South African ORCID Consortium to read and write information to their researchers, students, and staff ORCID records. Intembeko ORCID Hub allows universities to use an ORCID integrated system without the technical requirements needed to build their own custom integration.

New Zealand ORCID Hub is a free tool, developed by a team in New Zealand, that allows organisations, both large and small, to connect with ORCID to read from and write to their stakeholders’ ORCID records, with the record holder’s permission.

SmartSimple Cloud is a cloud-based platform that offers a scalable, configurable solution to streamline and automate the management of research funding and grants. It provides end-to-end solutions for grant management and enhances organizations’ efficiency, improves data accuracy, and ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, leading to more effective grant management and impactful research outcomes.

We are pleased to announce a new Certified Service Provider this month. 

OBD (Personal Bibliographic Database) oversees academic and creative outputs at Czech Universities. Administered through validations and controls, administrators ensure record accuracy in the application workflow. Verified records are sent to RIV (Research Outputs Registry), a public database in ISVaVaI, compiling scientific research outcomes from Czech research organizations. Authors enter data independently, aided by a code system to ensure accuracy. The staged workflow facilitates straightforward control and validation throughout the data entry process, including posting data to RIV.

There were no new Certified Service Providers added this month.

We are pleased to announce a new Certified Service Provider this month. 

Editorial System by Bentus Web Technologies is a manuscript submission, peer review and production solution for journals that is relied on by more than 270 journals and 350,000 scientists across 120 countries. Editorial System is integrated with scientific databases, antiplagiarism platforms and payment gateways. It offers individual configuration depending on journal’s workflow and requirements.

We are pleased to announce a new Certified Service Provider this month: 

Esploro — The Esploro research information management solution drives research impact and improves efficiencies. It breaks down data silos, linking comprehensive scholarly information across all academic disciplines. Esploro makes it easy to showcase faculty work and find subject matter experts, enhance collaborations, attract talented researchers, and boost your institution’s reputation. The wealth of information in Esploro is available for other systems as well, facilitating activity reporting, tenure processes, and national assessment projects, while minimizing the time spent on manual data entry.

We are pleased to announce a new Certified Service Provider this month: 

Institutional Research Information System (IRIS) is the software solution developed by CINECA Consorzio Universitario (based in Italy) that simplifies the collection and management of data related to Research activities, publications, projects and products. IRIS CRIS provides researchers, administrators, and reviewers the tools to assess and manage research results, increase their visibility on the web, and effectively allocate available resources. IRIS contains the largest amount of research data for Universities and Research Centres in Italy.

We are also pleased to announce a new service provider to be (re-)certified under the new criteria:

Altum’s ProposalCentral is a software company driven towards the advancement of research. ProposalCentral is designed to empower funders, connect the research community and extend the impact of grant-making long beyond the award. ProposalCentral helps organizations unlock the full potential of their funding efforts and deliver outcomes that benefit humanity faster.

We are pleased to announce a new Certified Service Provider this month: 

Aries Systems’ Editorial Manager® (EM) is a highly-configurable workflow management system built to streamline editorial processes, communications, and management of files.

The EM-ORCID integration allows ORCID Member publishers to pull relevant data for authors & reviewers from ORCID records (with their permission), and writes peer review activity to those records to credit researchers with their service as reviewers. More information on the functionality of their ORCID integration can be found in the Aries Systems video library.

We are pleased to announce a new Certified Service Provider this month. 

• InfoEd Global certified its comprehensive eRA platform to help institutions effectively and efficiently manage their research portfolio. Institutions can configure their eRA systems to allow users to link to their existing ORCID iD or create a new one if needed and authorize the institution to add/update/retrieve data to and from their ORCID profiles. Granular controls allow institutions to add/update education, employment, and awarded funding data to user’s linked ORCID profiles as well as to retrieve works/citation data added by publishers from the user’s ORCID profile into their InfoEd profile.

We are also pleased to announce these Certified Service Providers who have recertified under the revised criteria of our recently relaunched program.

• PKP (Public Knowledge Project) recertified Open Journal Systsems (OJS), which is an open source software application for managing and publishing scholarly journals. It also recertified Open Preprint Systems, which is a software to run a preprint server anywhere, built on the same powerful, flexible foundations as OJS. 
• 4Science recertified DSpace-CRIS, the first free open-source extension of DSpace for the Research Data and Information Management ever developed. 
• Digital Science recertified Symplectic Elements. ORCID members can configure Elements to allow researchers to link to their ORCID iD and gather persistent identifiers from their ORCID record. Elements can also be used to add works to your researchers’ ORCID records and assert their affiliation with their organization.