After thorough review and discussion with the ORCID Board late last year, ORCID is happy to announce our endorsement of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information as an institutional supporter. We are pleased to see how the declaration, a community-driven initiative with over 100 signatories and 40 supporters, highlights growing support for sustainable infrastructure for research information. As a community-governed non-profit research infrastructure provider, ORCID considers all opportunities for community commitments, including endorsements, through a framework established by our Board of Directors, by which we assess the call for commitment against several criteria, including whether or not the commitment conflicts with our founding principles, our values, or would jeopardize our non-profit status.
A fundamental goal of ORCID is to connect researchers with their research in an open, equitable way that enables transparent generation of insights about not only researchers, but their institutions.
From a researcher’s perspective, ORCID allows them to claim credit for their work and contributions, no matter where they are or what their discipline. It also reduces the burden required to manage their careers as they reuse their profile data in a variety of scholarly workflows.
As an open infrastructure organization, ORCID enables the sharing of researcher and research-related metadata within any FAIR-enabled infrastructure. This allows researcher and institutional evaluations to be based on open, transparent data engendering trust, strengthening the scholarly record, and ultimately helping to uphold research integrity.
ORCID recognizes the Barcelona Declaration as an important framework by which scholarly systems can be integrated in a transparent way, while supporting all varieties of our members’ business models. We applaud the signatory organizations in their commitment to support the sustainability of infrastructures for open research information, and their endeavors toward increasing the openness and transparency of research assessment. In doing so, we reaffirm our commitment to our own vision and mission, and to the principles by which we were founded.
