The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced that it is expanding the languages supported in the ORCID Registry with the launch of a Portuguese-language user interface.
Users may now register for an ORCID identifier and manage their account in Portuguese. This augments the organisation's current support for nine languages (English, French, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese), and builds upon capabilities ORCID has offered since launch for adding content, including alternate names, in multiple character sets. Technical support will continue to be offered in English.
Following a nationwide call last November by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), the national science funder in Portugal, more than 40,000 Portuguese researchers registered for an ORCID identifier within a three-week period. Organisations and over 75,000 works were linked to these records. In parallel, pilots using ORCID data were conducted in two nation-wide systems. In a pilot with the DeGóis CV system, 2000 researchers associated their ORCID to their CV and imported over 8500 publications. A second pilot with the Authenticus indexed publications repository resulted in the researcher-driven import of more than 130,000 publications, which were automatically associated with the authors.
The FCT presented these results at a workshop in February, where ORCID was discussed as a component of a nation-wide CRIS eco-system that enabled researcher identification and interoperability among multiple research systems in Portugal, including the RCAAP national Open Access repository.
In addition to Portugal, the Portuguese-language interface is intended to support the Brazilian research community.
