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Is Digital-first Publishing Finally a Reality? An Interview with Liz Ferguson of Wiley

We’re finally seeing a move to truly digital-first publishing systems and in today’s post Alice Meadows interviews Liz Ferguson of Wiley about this transition, including their own Research Exchange platform.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Oct 1, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Better Together: ORCID and Other Researcher Identifiers

This post is based on a recently-published white paper by Alice Meadows and Josh Brown of MoreBrains Cooperative, in which they discuss why ORCID iDs work best in combination with other researcher identifiers — it’s ORCID and, not ORCID or…

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jul 16, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

No One Size Fits All: The Case for Taking a National Approach to PID Adoption 

Today, Alice Meadows shares some learnings from MoreBrains Cooperative’s recent cost-benefit analysis of persistent identifiers, conducted on behalf of the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK).

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Apr 10, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Scholarly Publishing Based On a Zero Trust Architecture

The many trust issues in scholarly publishing might benefit from applying a zero-trust framework to the publication process.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Feb 5, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Honest Signaling and Research Integrity

Promoting research integrity is not just identifying bad behavior: problem articles can also be detected by the absence of ‘honest’ signals of integrity.

  • By Tim Vines, Ben Kaube
  • Apr 16, 2024
  • 18 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Tracking Research Facilities in Science: A CSIRO/CHORUS Pilot Sets Sail

A new CSIRO/CHORUS project seeks to improve tracking of the use of research faciilities and their impact.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 25, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — How Identifiers Can Help Publishers Do a Better Job of Curating the Scholarly Record   

As scholarly journal editorial practices are the subject of growing scrutiny, publishers should explore “quality signals” systemically derived from researcher identity and metadata associated with identity.

  • By Richard Wynne
  • Feb 13, 2024
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Chris Shillum of ORCID

In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Alice Meadows asks Chris Shillum, Executive DIrector of ORCID, to share his thoughts about his career in research infrastructure

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Dec 18, 2023
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Reflections on Peer Review and the Humane Future of Publishing

In today’s post Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, and Karin Wulf kick off a week of posts to celebrate Peer Review Week 2023 with their thoughts on peer review and the future of publishing.

  • By Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, Karin Wulf
  • Sep 25, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

The ORCID US Consortium at Five: What’s Worked, What Hasn’t, and Why?

The ORCID US consortium, managed by Lyrasis, is five years old in 2023 – hear about their progress so far and plans for the future in Alice Meadows’ interview with their PID Program Leader, Sheila Raybun

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jun 21, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Why PID Strategies Are Having A Moment — And Why You Should Care

Why are national PID strategies having a moment, and why should you care? Find out in today’s post by Alice Meadows.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 25, 2023
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

We All Know What We Mean, Can We Just Put It In The Policy?

Funder guidance is too vague when it comes to identifiers and metadata. It needs to get specific to be effective.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Nov 16, 2022
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Making the Case for a PID-Optimized World

In the second of two posts on persistent identifiers in scholarly communications, Phill Jones and Alice Meadows share information about a new cost-benefit analysis showing the value of widespread PID adoption

  • By Alice Meadows, Phill Jones
  • Jun 22, 2021
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Celebrating Five Years of PIDapalooza with a 24-Hour PID Party!

Whether or not you attended this year’s 24-hour online party for persistent identifiers, aka PIDapalooza 2021, here’s your chance to read all about it!

  • By Alice Meadows, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Todd A Carpenter, Judy Luther, Phill Jones
  • Feb 10, 2021
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 12 mins

Beyond Publication — Increasing Opportunities For Recognizing All Research Contributions

Recognizing the many ways that researchers (and others) contribute to science and scholarship has historically been challenging but we now have options, including CRediT and ORCID.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Aug 12, 2020
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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