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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

Ask The Chefs: What Did You Take Away from SSP’s 2025 Annual Meeting?

The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs reflect on what they took away from the conversations and vibes at the 2025 SSP Annual Meeting.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Charlie Rapple, Roy Kaufman, Robert Harington, Alice Meadows, Randy Townsend
  • Jun 9, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 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

A Successful Start to a New Festival of Identifiers: PIDfest 2024

In this post by Todd Carpenter, Phill Jones, and Alice Meadows, you can read all about PIDfest, which brought together nearly 400 persistent identifier users and providers from around the world (in person in Prague, and virtually).

  • By Alice Meadows, Phill Jones, Todd A Carpenter
  • Jul 18, 2024
  • 0 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

#PIDfest – Bringing the PID Community Back Together Again!

There’s a new PID conference in town – PIDfest will take place at the Czech National Library of Technology in Prague on June 11-13, 2024. Learn more in this post by Mary Beth Barilla and Alice Meadows, respectively,chairs of the Marketing & Communications and Programme Committees

  • By Alice Meadows, Mary Beth Barilla
  • Jan 24, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 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

Introducing Kitchen Essentials — Interviews with the Scholarly Infrastructure Community

Today, Alice Meadows and Roger Schonfeld introduce a new interview series – Kitchen Essentials – featuring leaders of some of the key scholarly infrastructure organizations globally.

  • By Alice Meadows, Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Oct 31, 2023
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 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

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

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

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