The 'ORCID DE' project of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Technische Informationsbibliothek – German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) on the establishment and operation of an ORCID consortium for research institutions in Germany.
One of the great challenges in academic publication management is ensuring that authors are attributed clearly to the work they have created. The DFG-funded 'ORCID DE' project takes up this challenge and aims to promote the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) – a unique identifier for researchers – at universities and non-university research institutions throughout Germany.
A 'Memorandum of Understanding on the establishment and operation of an ORCID consortium for research institutions in Germany' has now been signed by the partner organisations (the German National Library, the Helmholtz Open Science Coordination Office at the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, and Bielefeld University Library) of the project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) called ORCID DE and by the Technische Informationsbibliothek – German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) in Hannover. The Memorandum of Understanding represents an important step on the path towards promoting ORCID at universities and non-university research institutions in Germany.
TIB will take on the administrative management of the Germany ORCID Consortium and will administer ORCID membership for research institutions in Germany.
The establishment of the consortium for research institutions was initiated within the ORCID DE project and can now be realised, after TIB agreed to undertake the administrative management of the Germany ORCID Consortium. Any research institutions interested in becoming a member of ORCID are invited to join the Germany ORCID Consortium. A contact form is available at http://www.orcid-de.org/konsortium/ for interested institutions.
The project proposal was published open access at http://doi.org/bdbw.
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