Springer Nature has announced two new initiatives in support of ORCID, which gives researchers a unique, personal, persistent identifier (an iD) that distinguishes them from every other researcher. ORCID also enables organisations to link researchers' affiliations and works – including their publications - to their iD, ensuring they receive proper credit for their work.
The first initiative is a trial that will mandate ORCID iDs for corresponding authors publishing in 46 journals from across the whole of Springer Nature, including Nature Research, Springer and BioMed Central. This trial is the latest development in Springer Nature's long history of support for ORCID, which has led to over 500,000 unique identifiers being used across the portfolio. The trial will last for six months and researchers' perceptions will be evaluated at the end of that period.
The second initiative will see Springer become the first publisher to include ORCID iDs in proceedings papers. Springer's proceedings submission system, OCS, allows authors to enter and validate their ORCID iDs, thus integrating them into the workflow process from the very beginning. Authors and editors of proceedings that use other conference management systems can still provide ORCID iDs to appear in the proceedings and next to the editors' information. This feature will be extended to Springer's Linked Open Data portal in the near future.
Springer publishes about 1,200 proceedings volumes every year, which represents a significant percentage of all such works published in technical fields worldwide. In computer science and engineering, publication in the proceedings of top conferences is, in fact, often preferred over publication in academic journals.
In addition, Springer Nature will be the first major publisher to be awarded the Collect, Display, and Connect badges from ORCID's integration and engagement program, Collect & Connect, developed to streamline the integration process and foster a shared user experience.
Springer Nature has implemented ORCID in workflows so that authors and editors benefit from all the advantages of ORCID. Submitted and authenticated ORCID iDs are displayed in the content (i.e., the PDF of a publication), on Springer Nature's platforms, and are added to their metadata to increase discoverability. This enables authors with an ORCID iD to authorise Crossref to automatically push information about their published work to their ORCID record.
In November 2015 Springer Nature announced that they would be the first publisher to enable all Springer and Palgrave Macmillan authors and editors to add their ORCID iDs to academic book and chapter manuscripts.
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