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Open Access in Context: Connecting Authors, Publications and Workflows Using ORCID Identifiers

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  • Josh Brown

    (ORCID EU, 24 Paddock Gardens, Lymington SO41 9ES, UK)

  • Tom Demeranville

    (ORCID EU, 86 Catherine Way, Bath BA17PA, UK)

  • Alice Meadows

    (ORCID Inc., Brookline, MA 02445, USA)

Abstract

As scholarly communications became digital, Open Access and, more broadly, open research, emerged among the most exciting possibilities of the academic Web. However, these possibilities have been constrained by phenomena carried over from the print age. Information resources dwell in discrete silos. It is difficult to connect authors and others unambiguously to specific outputs, despite advances in algorithmic matching. Connecting funding information, datasets, and other essential research information to individuals and their work is still done manually at great expense in time and effort. Given that one of the greatest benefits of the modern web is the rich array of links between digital objects and related resources that it enables, this is a significant failure. The ability to connect, discover, and access resources is the underpinning premise of open research, so tools to enable this, themselves open, are vital. The increasing adoption of resolvable, persistent identifiers for people, digital objects, and research information offers a means of providing these missing connections. This article describes some of the ways that identifiers can help to unlock the potential of open research, focusing on the Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID), a person identifier that also serves to link other identifiers.

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  • Josh Brown & Tom Demeranville & Alice Meadows, 2016. "Open Access in Context: Connecting Authors, Publications and Workflows Using ORCID Identifiers," Publications, MDPI, vol. 4(4), pages 1-8, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jpubli:v:4:y:2016:i:4:p:30-:d:78950
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    1. Sixto-Costoya Andrea & Robinson-Garcia Nicolas & Leeuwen Thed & Costas Rodrigo, 2021. "Exploring the relevance of ORCID as a source of study of data sharing activities at the individual-level: a methodological discussion," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 126(8), pages 7149-7165, August.
    2. Stočes, Michal & Šimek, Pavel & Pavlík, Jan, 2017. "Metadata Formats for Data Sharing in Science Support Systems," AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Economics and Management, vol. 9(3), September.

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