Category Archives: ORCID

ORCID Training

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Chris

Earlier in the week Alan and I did some more training on ORCID IDs for researchers here at the OU.  ORCID IDs are persistent identifiers for researchers and can be used to: Aid disambiguation in researcher platforms to ensure accurate … Continue reading →

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Training Offer: ORCID

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Chris

We currently have 343 ORCIDs recorded in ORO and 11,261 papers in ORO have at least one ORCID recorded against a co-author. We are running a workshop on Thursday 12th October at 10AM where you can learn about ORCIDs (Open Researcher and Contributor Identifiers), the … Continue reading →

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ORO ORCID connector

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Chris

We have completed the first stage of our ORO – ORCID connector.  It is now possible to link your ORO profile to your new (or existing ORCID account).  This link has three key benefits: It allows all your publications listed … Continue reading →

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Linking ORO to ORCID

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Chris

This week Alan Stiles (ORO Developer) and I ran a workshop on ORCID with particular attention to linking individual ORO (the OU’s Institutional Repository) accounts to existing or new ORCID accounts. The development work has gone on for some time … Continue reading →

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Open Access Week 2016

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Chris

The 9th Global Open Access Week is held between October 24th to 30th, the theme this year is “Open in Action”. Library Services is marking Open Access Week with 3 events, all sessions are open to all.   Open Research Data … Continue reading →

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Get your ORCID working for you!

Posted on July 18, 2016 by Chris

As I write over 2,300,000 ORCIDs have been registered by researchers globally.  ORCIDs have gained traction with publishers, funders and universities as a way of persistently identifying individual researchers across different infrastructures and enabling the flow of data across them.  This will … Continue reading →

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Cultivating ORCIDs

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Chris

Yesterday Jisc organised an event on Cultivating ORCIDs in Birmingham. In Brum for @jisc @ORCID_Org event pic.twitter.com/IfnSiqyRKF — Chris Biggs (@seabee73) May 25, 2016 The OU is part of the Jisc ORCID consortia and we are busy integrating ORCIDs into … Continue reading →

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ORCIDs at the OU

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Chris

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (or ORCIDs) are unique identifiers for researchers that can be used to identify research outputs across platforms to a particular researcher. ORCIDs are a good idea because: They distinguish between researchers with the same or similar … Continue reading →

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