Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organisation creating global licensing, content and Open Access (OA) solutions that make copyright work for everyone, has joined the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) initiative.
ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outposts to these identifiers. It's unique in its ability to reach across disciplines, research sectors, and national boundaries and its cooperation with other identifier systems.
The ORCID community includes individual researchers, universities, national laboratories, commercial research organisations, research funders, publishers, national science agencies, data repositories, and international professional societies, all of whom will benefit from a sustainable, updated central registry for researchers.
CCC, named one of "10 to Watch" by information industry analyst Outsell in its 2013 Open Access Market Report, has been helping publishers improve the author experience in collecting Article Processing Charges (APCs) for over six years, and welcomes efforts toward standardization and transparency. CCC also recently joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), which offers a forum for bringing together the entire open access community.
