The ORCID initiative has officially launched as a non-profit organization, ORCID, Inc. The organization is managed by a Board of Directors, comprised of fourteen members of the global scholarly research community. To date, ORCID has attracted support from more than 115 organizations in academic, corporate, government, association and publisher industries around the world.
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ORCID welcomes new participant organizations:
AVEDAS AG; California Digital Library, University of California; SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online; University of Western Sydney; Ammons Scientific.com; ISN Institute for Science Networking
ORCID welcomes new participant organizations:
University of Wisconsin - Madison; MedKnow Publications; American Geophysical Union; American Chemical Society; Yale University, Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure; Pubget Inc.; University of Stirling; National Library of Serbia; Proteopedia; PriorIP; Access Innovations Inc.; University of Missouri-Colubia, MU Libraries; Korea Institute of Science & T KISTI
ORCID welcomes new participant organizations:
Library of Congress; KaraM, Center for the Black Sea Studies; CABI; Royal Society of Chemistry; American Geophysical Union; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) (PNAS)
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ORCID welcomes new participant organizations:
Human Frontier Science Program (HFSB); Symplectic Ltd.; Taylor and Francis; American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB); Anianet; Environmental Perspectives; Internet Medical Publishing (iMedPub)
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Chemical & Engineering News overviews name ambiguity and discusses ORCID as "in the works" solution, highlighting both algorithmic solutions and manual disambiguation.
Researchers who obtain an alphanumeric ORCID will be able to set up an online profile page that includes information such as affiliations, publications, contact information......
Early prototype details — includes drivers, profile exchange, and various interface sketches. VIEW
Eric Hellman discusses three ways ORCID can attack the author name ambiguity problem: algorithmically, manually, and socially. Hellman also reviews the challenges in creating a self-sustaining business model for this effort.
"...The remaining approach to the author name problem is to involve the authoring community...
"Credit Where Credit is Due." Nature article helps introduce ORCID Initiative; briefly explores disambiguation benefits beyond journals (datasets, blog posts, etc)
Scientific research continues to accelerate, mirrored by unprecedented publication rates: PubMed contains over 18 million citations now. In many fields it is becoming increasingly difficult to cite...
Geoffrey Bilder (CrossRef) overviews author name ambiguity, in context of ORCID launch, at STM Innovations Seminar, London, UK.
Announcement of intent to collaborate and resolve author name ambiguity.
Leading members from the research community today announced their
intent to collaborate to resolve the author name ambiguity problem in scholarly
communication. Together, the group hopes to develop an open, independent identification
system for scholarly authors.
Accurate identification of researchers and their work is one of the pillars for the transition
from science to e-...