Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 09:37:22 +0100
I am delighted to inform you that EASE, the European Association of
Science Editors, has issued a statement of support and endorsement of
ORCID, the unique author identification system. This statement has
been issued to both endorse the initiative and to promote its uptake
throughout the researcher community. Comprising both technical and
content editors from around the world, our members play a vital role
in the publication of scholarly information and in encouraging authors
to adopt good practice. Through our endorsement of ORCID, editors will
be able to increase its implementation and alleviate the problems
associated with disambiguation of author identities.
The European Association of Science Editors (EASE) supports all
initiatives that increase the transparency and disambiguation of
authorship so that authors can receive appropriate credit for their
work. We therefore fully support and endorse the activities of ORCID
(Open Researcher & Contributor ID:
https://orcid.org) to provide a
mechanism for identifying and associating authors with their research
publications and related activities.
The formal statement can be read on our website:
www.ease.org.uk/publications/ease-statements-resources/