Jisc has welcomed Bangor University as the 100th UK institution to join the international ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) consortium.
ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-based organization that provides a hub to connect researchers with institutional, funder, publisher, and other researcher identifier (the unique number given to every researcher which can be attributed to all their work) systems.
Through the consortium, members are provided with guidance to automate the movement of research information between internal and external systems.
The UK research community, under the stewardship of Jisc, has led the way in ORCID adoption and continues to be the gold standard in ORCID consortium support.
This milestone highlights the mass adoption of ORCID, with over 14 million ORCID IDs issued worldwide, almost 250 thousand of which are based in the UK.
As well as a discount on membership, the ORCID consortium gives access to community events and allows members to reach out to Jisc or fellow organizations for training and engagement materials.
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