The ORCID User Facilities and Publications Working Group has issued a report that suggests a route to improved attribution and acknowledgement of research support related to use of facilities and specialised equipment, and better tools for the capture and analysis of that information.
The Working Group brought together stakeholders from labs, publishers, US federal agencies, and infrastructure providers. The group analysed workflows, technologies, and standards in use by user facilities and publishers, and identified key points at which information could be shared or made available to other systems.
The group identified several opportunities for user facilities and their sponsors, publishers, and researchers to improve the current capture and assessment of the impact of these facilities on the research enterprise. These are articulated in a report that specifies actions that each stakeholder group could take to move the research community toward this goal. The working group recognises that the greatest impact will come from stakeholders working collectively and collaboratively.
The group has also defined two pilot projects, one that targets processes at facilities, to integrate identifiers into user facility proposal submission or site access requests, and the second targets manuscript submission processes to integrate award and facility IDs into the manuscript publication process.
Interested parties may visit ORCID's blog post for more about the working group's findings and see how you can participate in one of the pilot projects.
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