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Archives: persistent identifiers

Smorgasbord: Trends from Spring 2023 Meetings and Conferences (Part Two)

Read what Chefs Angela Cochran and Alice Meadows (respectively) have to say about the recent ISMPP conference and RDA 20th Plenary Meeting in today’s Smorgasbord

  • By Alice Meadows, Angela Cochran
  • May 24, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

The State of Scholarly Metadata: 2023

A new interactive report on the research lifecycle designed to offer a deeper understanding of the state of scholarly metadata in 2023 is presented.

  • By Jamie Carmichael, Jessica Thibodeau, Roy Kaufman
  • May 9, 2023
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Why Interoperability Matters for Open Research – And More than Ever

Rebecca Lawrence discusses how connections across all aspects of the system are needed for open research to flourish and deliver upon its promise.

  • By Rebecca Lawrence
  • Apr 6, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 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

Unnecessary Research Bureaucracy is Killing Academic Productivity, But it IS Fixable

Research bureaucracy and administrative burden has become so overpowering that many researchers are reporting that they don’t have time to do any research anymore. Phill Jones argues that technology in the form of PIDs will go a long way to fixing this.

  • By Phill Jones
  • Dec 5, 2022
  • 2 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

Is Infrastructure Consolidation the Next Step? CCC Acquires Ringgold

In the light of CCCs acquisition of Ringgold last week, three Chefs, Phill Jones, Roger Schonfeld, and Todd Carpenter reflect on the motivations for the move and its implications for PIDs and organisational identifiers.

  • By Phill Jones, Roger C. Schonfeld, Todd A Carpenter
  • May 10, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

PIDs for Peer Review!

To round off Peer Review Week 2021, Phill Jones and Alice Meadows share work under way to map out a PID-optimized workflow for peer review – and invite your feedback!

  • By Alice Meadows, Phill Jones
  • Sep 24, 2021
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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

The UK National PID Consortium: A Pathway to Increased Adoption

Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are an essential part of the open research infrastructure, but need widespread adoption to be effective. Learn about Jisc’s plans to increase adoption through a national PID consortium in this post by Alice Meadows.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jun 29, 2020
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Building a Sustainable Research Infrastructure

What does a strong and sustainable research infrastructure look like? How close are we to building one? What improvements are needed? This summary of a recent SSP webinar addresses these questions and more.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Apr 30, 2020
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Are You Ready to ROR? An Inside Look at this New Organization Identifier Registry

What is the Research Organization Registry (ROR) and why do we need it? Learn more from the team behind it (CDL, Crossref, DataCite, and Digital Science) in this interview with Alice Meadows.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Dec 4, 2019
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

#PIDapalooza19: A Whole Lotta PIDs

The third PIDapalooza took place in Dublin in late January. Alice Meadows shares some of her thoughts on this festival of open identifiers.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Feb 5, 2019
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Getting the PID Word Out — At PIDapalooza and Beyond…

Outreach was the word of the moment at PIDapalooza 2018. So how can we improve persistent identifier adoption and usage by researchers?

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Feb 8, 2018
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

It Takes a Village: One Year of Journals Requiring ORCID iDs

Getting researcher buy-in to new tools and systems can be challenging – even when those tools are intended to help free them of administrative burden. A community approach, such as the publisher-led initiative to require ORCID iDs for authors, can be very effective.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Apr 20, 2017
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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