Prague, April 3, 2025: A cost-benefit analysis finds that the time savings from widespread adoption of persistent identifiers (PIDs) in Czech institutions could save over 7,000 person days per year. This equates to total potential savings of 33 million Czech crowns annually. It is widely recognised that researchers and research staff – in the Czech …
ORCID has published its 2024 Annual Report. In the third year of implementing its From Vision to Value: ORCID’s 2022–2025 Strategic Plan, the organization continues to advance its vision of a connected research environment across disciplines, borders, and time. Progress in its five strategic areas confirms ORCID’s growing role as part of the global research …
ORCID has long been committed to openness and annually publishes the ORCID Public Data File, which contains publicly available information from ORCID profiles. This dataset is used for various analyses and tracking trends in open science. Until now, working with this data required downloading and processing it locally, which posed a challenge for some users. …
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In February 2025, as the consortium lead of the ORCID National Centre, the National Library of Technology (NTK) participated in the ORCID Consortia Lead Workshop, held at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Over an intensive one-and-a-half-day program, representatives from 15 countries shared their successes, challenges, and experiences while discussing the further development of open infrastructure. The meeting …
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ORCID invites you to the next webinar in the research integrity series, where you will meet with experts in research, cybersecurity, and related fields. The webinar will take place on March 12 at 14:00. In this session, we will be joined by Signals, a research evaluation platform that connects scholarly record metadata with expert insights …
ORCID organization has decided to endorse the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. This declaration, which has already gathered over 100 signatories and more than 40 supporters, advocates for a transparent, open, and sustainable infrastructure for research information. The declaration is built on four key commitments: ensuring open access to research information, using systems that …
The Research Organization Registry (ROR) initiative, which manages the persistent identifier for research institutions ROR ID, held an annual community meeting of its users and other stakeholders on 4-6 February 2025. Materials from the webinars: ROR Annual Community Meeting 2025: Community Update Recap of 2024 and presentation of plans for 2025 ROR Annual Community Meeting …
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 2025, …
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ORCID is expanding its work typology, opening up new possibilities particularly for researchers in the humanities. You can now add outputs such as musical compositions, visual and audio materials, or teaching objects to your ORCID profile. This update makes it easier to accurately classify research outputs and provides greater clarity during the process of adding …
DataCite, the registration agency for the DOI identifier, has announced a new version of its metadata schema number 4.6. A summary of the main new features: New “Project” value for the resourceTypeGeneral field.This update allows organizations registering DOIs for research activities or projects, including the RAiD consortium, to use a dedicated value that is more …
