From: "Meadows, Alice" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 08:05:25 -0400

ORCID, the non-profit organization that is working to address the name
ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by providing a registry
of persistent identifiers for researchers, today announced the launch
of Auto-Update functionality, in collaboration with Crossref and
DataCite.

Now, ORCID registrants who use their unique ORCID identifier (iD) when
submitting a manuscript or dataset can opt to have their ORCID record
automatically updated when their work is made public.

In addition, other systems that have integrated the ORCID APIs 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 organizations, 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 a
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.

ORCID Executive Director, Laure Haak, warmly welcomed this new
development: “Auto-update’s benefit to scholarly communications is
something that publishers, librarians, funders, and researchers can
all agree on: it is a game changer.”

Ed Pentz, Executive Director of Crossref, agrees: “This integration
with ORCID and our ongoing collaboration with DataCite aims to build
on existing infrastructure, tying systems together to save time for
researchers. We have a drive to encourage even more publishers to
deposit ORCID iDs with us and would like to invite people to a webinar
to learn more”.

And Patricia Cruse, Executive Director of DataCite adds: "We all share
the goal of “good science” and making it easier for researchers to
share their work is a big part of that goal.  By ORCID, CrossRef and
DataCite working together on Auto-update we are able to provide an
easy way for researchers to further expose their work.”


ABOUT CROSSREF:

We are Crossref, a not-for-profit membership organization for
scholarly publishing working to make content easy to find, cite, link,
and assess. We do it in five ways: rallying the community; tagging
metadata; running a shared infrastructure; playing with new
technology; and making tools and services to improve research
communications. For more information please contact Anna Tolwinska,
Marketing Manager, at [log in to unmask]

ABOUT DATACITE

DataCite (http://datacite.org) is an international not-for-profit
organisation which aims to make research data more accessible. Through
collaboration, Datacite supports researchers by helping them to find,
identify, and cite research data; data centres by providing persistent
identifiers, workflows and standards; and journal publishers by
enabling research articles to be linked to the underlying
data/objects. For further information please contact Patricia Cruse,
Executive Director, at [log in to unmask]

ABOUT ORCID:

ORCID (http://orcid.org) is a community-driven non-profit organization
that aims to solve the name ambiguity problem in research and
scholarly communications.  ORCID maintains a central registry of
unique identifiers for individual researchers and provides open and
transparent processes for connecting ORCID iDs with persistent
identifiers for people, organizations, and research activities and
outputs.  Connecting these identifiers can improve the research and
scholarly discovery process, reduce reporting burdens, increase the
efficiency of research funding, and support sharing and collaboration
within the research community.  For more information contact Laurel
Haak, ORCID Executive Director, at [log in to unmask]

Alice Meadows
Director of Communications, ORCID
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orcid.org/0000-0003-2161-3781