ORCID Consortia Members
Consortia are groups of 5 or more non-profit and/or governmental organizations taking a coordinated approach to ORCID implementation. Interested in joining ORCID as a consortium? Learn more about membership
There are currently 29 ORCID Consortia Members
All members | Consortia members
Aalborg University Library
Research Institute | Denmark
Aalborg University (AAU) has been providing students with academic excellence, cultural engagement and personal development since its inception in 1974. It offers education and research within the fields of natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, technical and health sciences. AAU currently consolidates and further develops its profile as a dynamic and innovative research and educational institution oriented towards the surrounding world. It is characterised by combining a keen engagement in local, regional, and national issues with an active commitment to international collaboration. With a persistent dedication to the pursuit of excellence, Aalborg University offers supreme educational experiences across a broad spectrum of academic fields.
American University of Beirut
Research Institute | Lebanon
The American University of Beirut (AUB) is a private, independent, non-sectarian institution of higher learning founded in 1866. It functions under a charter from the State of New York and is governed by a private, autonomous Board of Trustees. The University has six faculties: Agriculture and Food Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Architecture, Health Sciences, Medicine (including School of Nursing), and School of Business. At present, AUB offers programs leading to Bachelor, Master, MD, and PhD degrees. The Language of instruction is English.
Australian Access Federation - AAF
Association | Australia
Established in 2009, the Australian Access Federation (AAF) is Australia’s leading identity broker, enabling access to online resources for the Education and Research sector. The AAF is a vital part of the Australian eResearch infrastructure landscape facilitating trusted electronic communications and collaboration between education and research institutions both locally and internationally.
In 2016, the AAF was chosen by Australia’s research community to be the Australian ORCID Consortium Lead.
CINECA
Government | Italy
Cineca is a not for profit Consortium, made up of 70 Italian universities, 4 Italian Research Institutions and the Italian Ministry of Education. Today the Consortium is the largest Italian computing centre and one of the most important worldwide. With more than nine hundred employees, it operates in the technological transfer sector through high performance scientific computing, the management and development of networks and web based services, and the development of complex information systems for managing large amounts of data. Cineca develops advanced Information Technology applications and services, acting like a /trait-d'union/ between the academic world, the sphere of pure research and the world of industry and Public Administration.
Consortia LAC
Colombia
The ORCID Colombia Consortium expands and transforms into the ORCID Consortium of Latin America and the Caribbean so that the academic and research community of the entire region can obtain their own ORCID iD, a unique digital identifier that differentiates them in the scientific community and their institutions update their information automatically through the adoption, integration and implementation of ORCID as a standard for the normalization of authors' information.
Corporacion CINCEL
Chile
CINCEL (Consorcio para el acceso a la información científica electrónica; Consortium for access to electronic scientific information) aims to facilitate access to scientific information in Chile, by creating a library of international scientific journals and other information resources for higher education institutions and legal entities dedicate to scientific and technological research; in addition to establishing general conditions for joint activities with third parties. The constitution of the ORCID-Chile Consortium, coordinated by CINCEL, seeks to extend the use of persistent identifiers in the Chilean CTCI community, providing a point of articulation of personal and institutional efforts that allows accelerating the curve of adoption and use of ORCID and other persistent identifiers.
CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd.
Research Institute | Finland
CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd. is a non-profit, state-owned company administered by the Ministry of Education and Culture. CSC maintains and develops the state-owned centralised IT infrastructure and uses it to provide nationwide IT services for research, libraries, archives, museums and culture as well as information, education and research management. CSC has the task of promoting the operational framework of Finnish research, education, culture and administration. As a non-profit, government organisation, it is our duty to foster exemplary transparency, honesty and responsibility. Trust is the foundation of CSC's success. Customers, suppliers, owners and personnel alike must feel certain that we will fulfil our commitments and promises in an ethically sustainable manner. CSC has offices in Espoo's Keilaniemi and in the Renforsin Ranta business park in Kajaani.
Inter-University Computation Center
Association | Israel
IUCC (Hebrew: מחב”א, MACHBA), is a non-profit organization established by Israel’s research universities. IUCC delivers communication and network infrastructure services, digital information services, learning technologies, information systems and applications. This creates economies of scale that translate into financial savings, efficiency, reducing administrative costs, simplifying bureaucratic processes, streamlining infrastructures construction processes, deployment of good practices and more.
Irish Research eLibrary
Research Institute | Ireland
IReL is a consortium of Irish research libraries, providing access to licensed e-resources, OA publishing agreements, and open science infrastructure.
Jisc Services Limited
United Kingdom
We provide digital solutions for UK education and research. Jisc has created the UK ORCID support service for research support staff, managers, practitioners and developers considering or already implementing ORCID. It is designed to help drive: * Community collaboration * Knowledge-sharing * ORCID adoption * Benefits for institutions and researchers. Membership of ORCID through the Jisc UK consortium offers: * access to full features of premium ORCID membership at heavily reduced prices * premium member APIs * the use of ORCID integration across multiple enterprise systems * access to on boarding webinars, online resources, technical documentation and training materials * the use of ORCID in vendor-hosted systems as well as separate internal systems * notifications from ORCID when information is updated in an ORCID record connected to the organisation * unlimited integrated user acceptance testing in preparation for launches and releases for different enterprise systems.
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Research Institute | Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)
國立陽明交通大學（簡稱陽明交大）為國立陽明大學(以下簡稱陽明)與國立交通大學(以下簡稱交大)於2021年2月1日正式合併而成。 陽明與交大早在2001年即曾簽訂合併意願書，2003年10月8日試辦由陽明、清華、交通及中央共組「台灣聯合大學系統」，藉由合作促使台灣有限高等教育資源得以更有效運用，也因此兩校早有合作基礎，並奠定日後合併的契機。陽明及交大均為我國頂尖的研究型大學，兩校各自發展的重點互補性高，陽明作為醫學教育改革的先驅者，紮實培育新世代醫牙藥護、生命科學、生醫工程、醫學人文等專業與尖端研究領域之優秀人才，在高齡長照、腫瘤、腦科學、醫學工程等已有深厚基礎，和臺北榮民總醫院有長期合作，此外宜蘭的附設醫院也積極挑戰成為醫學中心；而交大在電子、資通訊與管理、科學與工程等領域為台灣領導者，在二十年前即確立發展生醫領域之目標，包含生醫資訊、生醫材料、生醫電子、生醫科學等，期能橫跨電資通訊與生醫，為我國開拓生醫科技產業之先驅；2018 年更由千名校友捐款興建落成「前瞻跨領域生醫工程大樓賢齊館」，宣誓將交大打造成台灣生醫工程的前瞻研發基地，再創生醫電資工程BioICT 里程碑。 National Yang Ming University (hereinafter referred to as Yang Ming) and National Chiao Tung University (hereinafter referred to as Chiao Tung) will formally merge into the “National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University” (NYCU) on February 1, 2021. Yang Ming, which focuses on biomedical research, and Chiao Tung, which focuses on electronic communication research, are both top tier universities in Taiwan. Under the principle of “reciprocity and mutual trust”, they have adopted a step-by-step integration model to complement their expertise to bring forth a novel disciplinary domain of teaching and pioneer the future of research and innovation.
ORCID DE Consortium
Research Institute | Germany
The Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) provides scientific content and digital services to specialist and research communities at www.tib.eu, supporting the different stages of scientific work. The library’s search and order portal offers users access to its outstanding collections of fundamental and highly specialized information on science and technology. Its remit is to preserve recorded knowledge and to provide the latest information, both now and in the future, irrespective of the time and the place. TIB is actively engaged in promoting Open Access and thus supports unrestricted, free access to scientific information.
ORCID US Community
Research Institute | United States
The ORCID US Community is a national consortium for ORCID membership for non-profit organizations in the United States. Founded by four US consortia - NorthEast Research Libraries (NERL), Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA), the Big Ten Academic Alliance, and Lyrasis - Lyrasis is the administrative home for the consortium, includes universities, research institutes, funders, societies, health/hospital systems, and other research-related organizations. With 195+ members, ORCID US Community is one of the largest ORCID consortia in the world, and all US non-profit institutions are welcome to participate.
ORCID-CA
Association | Canada
ORCID-CA is the ORCID Canada Consortium administered by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). We provide Canadian institutions and organizations with premium membership to ORCID at a reduced cost as well as access to dedicated local and bilingual community support services, a community of practice, technical support, and outreach materials. Globally, there are 23 local and regional consortia like ORCID-CA, including in Japan, Australia, Norway, Brazil, the US, South Africa, and more. ORCID-CA was established to support a Canadian ORCID community of practice, to enable the Canadian research community to take full advantage of the ORCID API in local institutional systems, and to promote the use of ORCID iDs by Canadian scholars. ORCID-CA is sustained through institutional memberships that include Canadian universities, government agencies, research centres/networks, not-for-profit publishers, and more. /// ORCID-CA est le consortium ORCID au Canada administré par le Réseau canadien de documentation pour la recherche (RCDR). Nous offrons aux organisations et aux établissements canadiens une adhésion premium à ORCID à un coût moindre, ainsi qu’un accès à des services de soutien locaux et bilingues, à une communauté de pratique, à une assistance technique et à des outils de sensibilisation. À l’échelle mondiale, il existe 23 consortiums locaux et régionaux semblables à ORCID-CA, notamment au Japon, en Australie, en Norvège, au Brésil, aux États-Unis et en Afrique du Sud. ORCID-CA a été créé pour soutenir une communauté de pratique ORCID au Canada, afin de permettre à la communauté de recherche canadienne de tirer pleinement parti de l’interface de programmation d’application (API) d’ORCID dans les systèmes des établissements locaux et de promouvoir l’utilisation des identifiants ORCID par les chercheurs canadiens. ORCID-CA est financé par les frais d’adhésion des organismes membres, notamment des universités canadiennes, des agences gouvernementales, des centres/réseaux de recherche, des éditeurs à but non lucratif, etc.
Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP
Government | Brazil
The Brazilian National Research and Educational Network (Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP) provides global integration and collaboration supported by information and communication technologies, for the generation of knowledge and excellence of education and research. Since 2002, it has been a Social Organization (OS) bonded to the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications (MCTIC) and maintained thereby together with the Ministries of Education (MEC), Culture (MinC), Health (MS) and Defense (MD). A pioneer in 1992 as a nation-wide network of Internet access in Brazil, RNP’s main duty is to promote technological development and support research on information and communication technologies, by creating innovative services and projects and training professionals. For such, it provides the public institutions of research and higher and technology education advanced network infrastructure that facilitates collaborative research in several areas of knowledge. Through applications of its network, RNP allows the execution of projects and the implementation of public policies in the areas of technology, education, health, culture and defense.
Royal Society Te Apārangi
Association | New Zealand
The Royal Society Te Apārangi manages ORCID in New Zealand. We are an independent non-profit organisation set up by an Act of Parliament in 1867. Our function today is to advance and promote science, technology and humanities. This includes social sciences, engineering and applied science. To do this we work with educators, students, researchers, the public, and government. We have strong involvement with research communities around New Zealand and manage decision making around a number of research funds including the country’s main financial support programme for blue-skies research -- the Marsden fund. We also run eight scholarly academic journals and award medals and Fellowship of the Society to the nation’s top scholars across all disciplines.
Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research
Government | Norway
Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research is a public administrative body under the Ministry of Education and Research. We provide a shared infrastructure for Education and Research, through cooperation with our users and customers. Our mission is to help the education and research sector achieve its goals by providing reliable and high-quality services. Our head office is in Trondheim, with additional offices in Bergen and Oslo.
State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine
Government | Ukraine
The State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine is one of the largest libraries in the country with a unique multi-sectoral stock of scientific and technical collections, accounting for almost 21 million items. Its holdings include the largest patent collection in Ukraine, unique collections of industrial and regulatory documentation, theses, research and development reports, deposited scientific papers, national and foreign books and periodicals. SSTL serves as an informational, research and methodical centre of national importance. The library's mission is to make knowledge and information accessible, transparent and reusable. As a research institution, SSTL plays an important role in the digitalization of science and technology of the state by developing new services to strengthen existing research information infrastructure and foster Open Science practices.
Sunet
Repository/Profile Org | Sweden
Sunet is the Swedish National Research and Education Network and is a part of the Swedish Research Council. Sunet's aim is to provide Swedish higher education sector with access to well-developed and effective national and international data communication, national academic identity infrastructure and other related services that meet the needs of the sector, whatever their geographical location. Sunet started in the 1980s as a research project for Swedish computer scientists and paved the way for the Internet in Sweden.
SURF BV
Research Institute | Netherlands
In SURF, education and research institutions work together on ICT facilities and innovation in order to make full use of the opportunities offered by digitisation. In this way, together we can make better and more flexible education and research possible. SURF leads the Dutch consortium, together with UKB. ORCID-NL currently has sixteen members: all the Dutch universities, the KNAW, and Geánt. Every year, we organise four consortium meetings where members can exchange experiences. We also work with ORCID on product improvements. We also offer support in the further implementation of ORCID by the consortium members.
TENET South Africa
Government | South Africa
TENET is a South African non-profit company and public benefit organisation whose main purpose is securing Internet and information technology services for the benefit of South African universities and associated research and support institutions.
TU Wien Bibliothek
Research Institute | Austria
With approximately 30.000 students, 8 faculties and 2.600 scientific staff, TU Wien is Austria’s largest university focusing on science and technology. TU Wien Bibliothek actively supports the university’s open access strategy and strives to make university research as openly available as possible. It also offers efficient and innovative support services for scholarly publishing – in accordance with TU Wien’s mission statement ‘Technology for people’.
US Government ORCID Consortium
Government | United States
The US Government ORCID Consortium is led by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (DOE OSTI). The Consortium was launched April 1st, 2020, bringing together US Government and DOE-affiliated organizations looking to use, adopt, and integrate with ORCID. The Consortium is open to all US federal government agencies and organizations.