Have you ever wondered what your ORCID iD is doing while you are busy conducting research, teaching, or writing papers? An ORCID record is not just a static online CV – it functions more like a digital “passport” that connects different information systems and helps ensure that your research outputs are correctly attributed to you. …
A Day in the Life of ORCID Data: What Does Your ORCID iD Do During the Day? Read More »
ORCID has introduced a new feature called Researcher Connect, designed to help member institutions more easily link researchers with their institutional systems. The feature allows institutions to reach out to researchers who have an ORCID iD and a verified institutional email domain but have not yet connected their ORCID record with the institution’s system. Once connected, …
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The international conference on persistent identifiers PIDfest 2026 is coming up. The second year of the event will take place from October 27-29 2026 in Leiden, the Nederlands. This year’s theme is Keeping Knowledge Connected, divided into three topics: You can submit your entries until March 22. Applications will then be anonymized and reviewed by the …
DOI registration agency DataCite has introduced several new features to its DataCite Commons tool. By leveraging DOI DataCite, Crossref metadata, and organization metadata from the Research Organization Registry (ROR), DataCite Commons offers new search capabilities. Now in DataCite Commons, you can:
On February 3 – 5, 2026 an online annual meeting of the communities of users, interested parties and other stakeholders of the ROR (Research Organization Registry), which manages the ROR ID, took place. Brief summary of the most important achievements of the year 2025: – A number of new integrations, namely some of the most …
The DataCite Registration Agency is making metadata for digital objects that have been assigned a DOI identifier through the agency available through the DataCite Metadata Store, in line with its commitment to the POSI principles. One of the ways the agency makes metadata publicly available is through a public data file. In late January 2026, …
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In 2025, the international ISSN network celebrated the 50th anniversary of its existence and surpassed the milestone of 2.5 million registered ISSN. The international network of national ISSN centres, coordinated by the International ISSN Centre based in Paris, celebrated 50 years of operation last year. The aim of the network is to assign and manage …
ORCID has launched a new feature called Researcher Connect, designed to help universities and research institutions more effectively link their internal systems with researchers’ ORCID records. This service automatically identifies researchers who have a verified institutional email address on their ORCID record but have not yet connected their ORCID iD with the institution’s integration. Researcher …
For member institutions, the National ORCID Centre team that is part of the National Library of Technology have prepared an analysis of data from 2023–2024 focusing on potentially duplicate records of researchers and ORCID iDs in IS VaVaI. The purpose of this analysis is to provide institutions with concrete supporting data for working with researcher …
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DSpace-CRIS has been recognized as an ORCID Certified Service Provider in the Research Information System category. It is the first free open-source extension of DSpace designed for Research Data and Information Management. DSpace-CRIS places the institutional repository at its core, ensuring high visibility of all collected information and objects on the web. ORCID member institutions …
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