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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Invitation to the second edition of the PIDfest international conference dedicated to persistent identifiers. PIDfest is a three-day international summit of talks, activities and workshops focussing on how persistent identifiers can deliver world-class research infrastructure. The event brings together PID advocates, users, and leaders from around the world to solve real world infrastructure challenges that …
ORCID has introduced a new Featured Works section that allows researchers to select up to five of their most important works and showcase them at the top of their record. This feature enables researchers to easily draw attention to their most significant publications or outputs. The new section transforms the ORCID record from a digital …
In October 2025, a milestone was reached in DataCite infrastructure: the registration of 100 millionth DOI. Since its founding nearly 16 years ago, DataCite now has more than 1,667 member organizations from over 60 countries and shows growth in the number of DOI registrations. In 2025 alone, over 28 million new DOIs have been registered …
ORCID has announced the candidates for Board of Directors for the year of 2026. Voting will be open from November 3rd to November 20th via the website (details will be published before voting begins) or at the annual online meeting of ORCID members, which will take place on November 20th, 2025. Representatives of member organizations …
