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  • 2025 Second Quarter Events RoundupThis link opens in a new windowJul 1, 2025

    We’re now halfway through the year! Over the past three months, we’ve hosted some exciting events for our ORCID community of stakeholders. If you missed any of them, we invite you to catch up with the replays and downloadable presentations. Stay tuned to our events calendar to stay connected to the upcoming events we have planned for the second half of the year. You can also visit our ORCID On-Demand page for other past events.

    ORCID Community Town Hall

    The ORCID senior team shared the progress we made in 2024 and gave a special preview of our plans for 2025. We also shared the 2024 Annual Report Watch the replays and download the presentation and annual report here.

    Research Integrity featuring TCC Africa

    In this session, Joy Owango, Executive Director of Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), joined us to discuss the Research Integrity Workshops from the Africa Research Integrity Initiative, sharing its objectives, impact, and role in strengthening ethical research practices across Africa. She showcased key activities, stakeholder engagement, and the broader efforts to promote responsible research conduct. Watch the replay and download the presentations here.

    Better Together: ORCID + ROR

    Amanda French, Technical Community Manager at the Research Organization Registry (ROR), and ORCID’s Tom Demeranville, Director of Product, came together for this webinar to demonstrate how our systems interact and complement each other.

    Learn more about ROR in this session and how it provides unique identifiers for research organizations. ROR IDs can be included in ORCID records to clearly establish institutional affiliations, which enhances data quality and adds valuable trust markers to researchers’ records.

    Tune in to explore ROR, learn how it connects with ORCID, and see how we’re better together. Watch the replay and download the presentations here.

    The Global Participation Fund: Building Equity in Research for the Common Good

    This webinar provides a step-by-step walkthrough of the grant submission process. It also covers the background of the Fund, the objectives and structure of the grant, and a brief overview of the monitoring and evaluation criteria for the grants.  Watch the replay and download the presentation and step by step submission guide.

    Building an ORCID community in the Arab World

    In collaboration with the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN), this webinar we introduced ORCID and its integrations to the Arab research community, highlighting how ORCID supports researchers, institutions, and systems. Attendees learned about ASREN and the ORCID consortium’s role in fostering collaboration across the region. Presented in Arabic. Watch the replay and download the presentation.

    Research Integrity featuring STM Solutions

    The growing prevalence of fraudulent research papers poses a serious threat to the credibility of scholarly communication, placing undue strain on editors, reviewers, and publishers. In response, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) has introduced the Researcher Identity Trust Framework—a pioneering initiative designed to strengthen editorial workflows and uphold the integrity of research.

    In this session, Richard Northover, Product Manager for Identity & Access at STM Solutions,  presented the framework’s key components and how it can help publishers and other stakeholders verify researcher identities and mitigate misconduct.  Watch the replay of and download the presentation.

    Ask Me Anything: The ORCID Board

    In our inaugural Ask Me Anything session, ORCID Board Chair Lisa Janicke Hinchcliffe and ORCID Nominating Committee Chair Ellen Tise discussed the ins and outs of ORCIDBoard governance. The session delved into the role, responsibilities, and activities of the ORCID Board, along with an overview of the board nomination process and criteria for submission. Watch the replay and download the presentation.

    Ask Me Anything: Librarians Leading ORCID Adoption

    In this session, we were delighted to spotlight the essential role librarians play in driving ORCID adoption at their institutions. Hear from librarians who are championing ORCID in their communities—how they’ve built support, tackled challenges, and made a measurable impact. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to strengthen your outreach, this session is an opportunity to learn from those leading the way. Watch the replay and download the presentations.

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  • Growing Together in Sub-Saharan Africa: ORCID Adoption Boosts Bioethics ResearchThis link opens in a new windowJun 26, 2025

    ORCID’s Global Participation Fund, launched in 2022, has distributed 26 grants totalling $465,000 to 17 countries in the Global South to date. Recipients include organizations in countries with low- and lower-middle-income economies, as defined by the World Bank as well as those developing open-source platforms used in those countries. Grants specifically help communities either work within local contexts to increase ORCID adoption or create and enhance technical integrations to support the realization of the benefits provided by the use of ORCID.

    One of the past grantees, the Africa Bioethics Network (ABN), was awarded nearly $20k in the GPF’s third grant cycle in early 2024 for its proposal to enhance ORCID awareness, adoption, and integration across the Sub-Saharan African bioethics community. ABN champions a deep understanding of bioethical concerns and promotes human rights and dignity universally. Dedicated to enriching both society’s foundational areas and intellectual pursuits, ABN offers invaluable resources, educational programs, and networking prospects. ABN’s focus of elevating research ethics and bioethics in Africa aligns perfectly with the goals of the GPF.  

    Mercury Shitindo behind a microphone and a visual display next to her. Caption: Mercury Shitindo, Executive Director of the Africa Bioethics Network, introduces the vision behind the ORCID Bioethics CoP and its integration into ABN’s research and mentoring infrastructure.
    Mercury Shitindo, Executive Director of the Africa Bioethics Network, introduces the vision behind the ORCID Bioethics CoP and its integration into ABN’s research and mentoring infrastructure.

    According to Mercury Shitindo, the project’s Principal Investigator, bioethics researchers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) often face interconnected structural challenges—from institutional policy gaps and limited digital infrastructure to constrained resources and underrepresentation in global research systems. The region’s valuable contributions are frequently obscured by fragmented researcher identification and inadequate documentation. Shitindo recognized that the GPF grant offered an opportunity to address these systemic issues and build infrastructure for lasting change by mainstreaming ORCID across African bioethics communities.  

    “The key was integration, not just adoption,” said Shitindo. “We embedded ORCID into the systems bioethics researchers already use—publishing, mentoring, training, and ethics review. By building on ABN’s existing programs and partnerships, we created a sustainable model that enhances research visibility while strengthening research systems and ethical infrastructure across the region.”

    Growing an ORCID Community of Practice

    Shitindo knew that an ORCID presence in SSA’s bioethics community would help streamline research processes from authorship to grant reporting while enhancing visibility, collaboration, and efficiency in the African bioethics landscape.

    Over the 12-month grant period, the project built a vibrant ORCID Community of Practice (CoP) with more than one hundred active members while reaching more than 1,000 stakeholders across 12 countries in SSA. It also conducted an extensive landscape analysis, organized high-impact training sessions, and produced three foundational documents  to guide the organization’s strategic growth and roadmap for long-term sustainability. The project accomplished the technical achievement of integrating ORCID into ABN workflows, such as the African Journal of Bioethics (AJB) and BEACON Mentorship Program, which connects early-career professionals with experienced mentors across Africa to build capacity in bioethics.

    Photo of a group of 20 people next to a sign about Africa Bioethics Network. Caption: The launch of the ORCID Bioethics Community of Practice officially begins, marking a new chapter for research identity, collaboration, and ethics across Sub-Saharan Africa.
    The launch of the ORCID Bioethics Community of Practice officially begins, marking a new chapter for research identity, collaboration, and ethics across Sub-Saharan Africa.

    The project has met its objectives by not only elevating awareness across SSA around ORCID’s role of improving research visibility and integrity while enhancing technical capacity across institutions, but  also establishing strategic partnerships to ensure that the CoP is sustainable beyond the grant period. This was accomplished because ABN leveraged existing networks, training programs, and digital platforms to foster a thriving bioethics research community across Africa.

    “We are thrilled to see that Africa Bioethics Network has laid a foundation for a sustainable ORCID Community of Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa for the bioethics research community.” said Ivo Wijnbergen, ORCID Director of Engagement. “This project clearly demonstrates a multiplier effect of positive impact by leveraging ORCID’s vast community resources to provide ongoing support for the bioethics research community in this region, helping the community to become  increasingly interconnected and transparent, saving researchers time and reducing administrative burden, while making their critical scientific contributions more globally discoverable.”

    Beyond the GPF grant cycle

    With a new roadmap document and sustainability plan, ABN set a foundation for enhanced research visibility, ethical accountability, and stronger institutional adoption of ORCID across Africa.

    Additionally, ABN has a three-tier sustainability approach encompassing short-term initiatives (0–12 months), medium-term strategies (12–36 months), and long-term vision (36+ months). Key components include membership growth mechanisms, program alignment with existing ABN initiatives, resource optimization through digital platforms, and strategic institutional partnerships.

    While each GPF grantee might have a unique set of challenges and opportunities that require a specialized strategic plan to increase adoption and awareness in a given country, region, or in a specific field of research, the support from the GPF has the effect of helping communities help themselves, which, in turns, helps elevate research globally as ORCID adoption grows.

    This is because where ORCID—and an array of other PIDs—are present in research community workflows, there is more trust, visibility, and time given back to researchers doing the work that matters most. All of these benefits to the regional research community also ripple outward to the entire global community.

    Stay tuned for the next GPF grant cycle opening in October. For more information about the GPF, visit the website for FAQs and more.

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  • White Paper: It’s “ORCID and…,”not “ORCID or…”This link opens in a new windowJun 25, 2025

    It’s widely accepted that ORCID is the most widely adopted, de facto researcher identifier in use today. But what does that mean for other researcher identifiers out there? Ones that are heavily in use nationally, or within a particular discipline? How does ORCID fit in with them? Do they need ORCID, and vice versa?

    The short answer is yes.

    In this recent White Paper, MoreBrains outlines how ORCID helps strengthen the reach and context of national identifiers, ensure the persistence of disciplinary identifiers across other fields of study, and allow proprietary identifiers to benefit from open systems.

    The white paper examines case studies demonstrating how ORCID works with different types of researcher identifiers, such as:

    • National Researcher Identifiers: ORCID extends the coverage of national systems, such as Portugal’s CIÊNCIA ID enabling global collaboration and data sharing.
    • Disciplinary Identifiers: ORCID supports disciplinary inclusion and partnerships by working with subject-based infrastructures like INSPIRE HEP for high-energy physics, allowing connections across fields and highlighting cross-disciplinary collaborations.
    • Proprietary/Global Identifiers: ORCID underpins interoperability by working openly with proprietary services like Clarivate’s ResearcherID and Elsevier’s Scopus Author ID, adding value and enabling data exchange.

    Learn more about how ORCID and these identifiers work together to ensure the interoperability and integrity of a globally connected research environment.


    This paper was commissioned by ORCID. It was developed and written by Josh Brown and Alice Meadows of MoreBrains Cooperative, and the views expressed are theirs. The MoreBrains team is grateful to Tom Demeranville, Paloma Marin-Arraiza, Julie Petro, Chris Shillum, and Ivo Wijnbergen (all of ORCID) for providing some of the data used, and for sharing their feedback on the initial drafts of the paper.

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