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Publishers to require ORCID identifiers for authors
A group of seven publishers has announced that they will begin requiring authors to use an ORCID identifier (iD) during the publication process.
The American Geophysical Union (AGU), eLife, EMBO, Hindawi, the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) will join the Royal Society – which already requires its authors to include iDs at submission – in making this commitment. ORCID iDs are persistent identifiers for people, ensuring that researchers can be easily and correctly connected with their research activities, outputs, and affiliations. More than 200 research platforms and workflow systems collect and connect iDs from researchers, grant application and publishing systems, association management systems, and university CRIS and other research information systems.
More than 1.8 million researchers globally have registered for an iD, understanding the value a digital name provides in enhancing discoverability and reducing their reporting paperwork. Some funders have started to require ORCID iDs as part of the grant proposal process and, in a recent survey, researchers indicated strong support for similar requirements by publishers. According to Mark Patterson, executive director of eLife, one of the three original organisations behind this initiative: ‘There is a pressing need to improve the way researchers are evaluated. ORCID helps by providing a unique ID for an individual, which makes it easier for researchers to gain recognition for all of their research contributions. eLife is very happy to be part of this initiative aimed at encouraging broader adoption of ORCID.’ Veronique Kiermer, executive editor of PLOS, added: ‘PLOS is
Access to Research project to continue
A initiative aimed at giving public library users free access to 10 million academic articles will be continued following its early success.
The Access to Research service was launched as a pilot in 2014, in order to support expanded access to publicly funded research in the UK. Since then 80 per cent of UK local authorities, representing more than 2,600 libraries, have signed up to the initiative.
Since the launch, more than 84,000 users have accessed the service – and an independent report, commissioned by the Publishers Licensing Society (PLS)
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and the Society of Chief Librarians (SCL), and co-funded by PLS and Arts Council England, has confirmed the value of the Access to Research service to users. The report found that satisfaction with Access to Research is high, with 90 per cent of those surveyed indicating the information they found through the service was useful. Almost every academic discipline is covered by the journals made available through Access to Research, via the Summon discovery service. Findings have shown that users are taking full advantage of this to explore a wide
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variety of topics. Some 230,000 searches have investigated a wide range of topics.
Access to Research has been made possible by a consortium of academic publishers, who collectively publish some of the world’s most respected scientific journals. News of the publishing community’s decision to extend the service has been warmly welcomed by librarians and users. Librarians participating in the initiative are encouraged to continue promoting the service, to further increase awareness of the wealth of information available from their library terminal.
committed to providing due credit to all researchers who contribute to the work we publish, and we see ORCID as an essential means to achieve this,’ while Stuart Taylor, publishing director at the Royal Society said: ‘We recognise the great potential value of ORCID to the research system. We believe that publishers have a key role in promoting systems that provide support to researchers and to science.’ l Meanwhile, Springer Nature has reached an important milestone, with more than 200,000 ORCID identifiers in use for journal article submissions. This follows November’s announcement that Springer Nature will be the first publisher to enable all Springer and Palgrave Macmillan authors and editors to apply their ORCID IDs to academic books and chapters. Nature Publishing Group originally founded ORCID with Thomson Reuters in 2010.
Internet of
Things Research Hub announced in UK
The UK’s minister of state for culture and the digital economy, Ed Vaizey, has today confirmed a new interdisciplinary ‘Research Hub’ to drive forward UK research in the Internet of Things (IoT). The PETRAS consortium of nine leading UK universities will work together over the next three years to explore critical issues in privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security. Funding for the project includes a £9.8 million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) which will be boosted by partner contributions to total approximately £23 million.
The project is part of IoTUK, an integrated £40-million, three- year, government programme that seeks to advance the UK’s global leadership in IoT, and increase the adoption of high- quality IoT technologies and services throughout businesses and the public sector.
The Hub is a consortium of nine leading universities led by UCL, along with Imperial College London, University of Oxford, University of Warwick, Lancaster University, University of Southampton, University of Surrey, University of Edinburgh and Cardiff University. The Hub will draw in substantial support and leverage from 47 partners from industry and the public sector. Vaizey said: ‘UK universities are renowned for their creativity, and pioneering research and development. We want the UK to be a world leader in the adoption of Internet of Things technologies.’
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