ORCID, the non-profit organisation that is working to address the name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by providing a registry of persistent identifiers for researchers, has announced the launch of Auto-Update functionality, in collaboration with Crossref and DataCite.
ORCID registrants who use their unique ORCID identifier (iD) when submitting a manuscript or dataset can now opt to have their ORCID record automatically updated when their work is made public.
In addition, other systems that have integrated the ORCID registry and connected a researcher's ORCID record - their faculty profile system, library repository, webpage, funder reporting system -can also choose to receive alerts from ORCID, allowing research information to move easily and unambiguously across multiple systems.
Crossref and DataCite, both non-profit organisations, are leaders in registering DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers - a unique alphanumeric string assigned to a digital object) for research publications and datasets. Each DOI is associated with a set metadata and a URL pointer to the full text, so that it uniquely identifies the content item and provides a persistent link to its location on the internet. Between them, Crossref and DataCite have already received almost half a million works from publishers and data centers that include an ORCID iD validated by the author/contributor. With Auto-Update functionality in place, provided the researcher includes her/his ORCID iD at submission, information about these works can transit (with the researcher's permission) to her/his ORCID record.
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