Not-for-profit life sciences publisher CABI has joined the founding sponsors of ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), the organisation set up to solve the problem of name ambiguity in scholarly research.
CABI has become a Silver Sponsor of the organisation, which plans to launch its service in early 2012. In addition to supporting ORCID Inc. CABI will also join other participants in contributing to the development of standard author identifiers that can be deployed broadly throughout the industry.
ORCID is working with more than 250 organisations with an interest in scholarly research to create a permanent, clear, and unambiguous record of scholarly communication by enabling reliable attribution of authors and contributors. The aim is to create a central registry of unique identifiers for scholarly researchers, who will be able to create and maintain profiles free of charge. This registry will link with other author identifier schemes to allow universities, publishers, funding bodies, and individual academics to more easily track publications, identify potential reviewers and collaborators, and measure the outputs from research.
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