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RCUK has agreed to capture ORCID identifiers for all researchers funded by Research Councils, enabling the identification of their publications, linking research outputs to grant funding, and facilitating data exchange among databases. This initiative presents challenges due to external system dependencies and competing priorities.
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Research Councils UKRCUK ORCID Update Louise Grant Project Manager, Gateway to Research
Intention Research Councils have agreed: • to capture a valid ORCID Identifier, where one exists, for all researchers supported by Research Council funding • to do this as early as possible in its engagement with individual researchers and/or the research funding process
Benefits Enabling the capture of ORCIDs is an essential first step that will, over time, yield a wide range of benefits • Identification of publications authored by RCUK-funded researchers • link other research outputs to grant funding • link researcher (including doctoral students) data between RC databases and others held by e.g. HESA (students and staff record) and the British Library (EThOS Electronic Thesis database). • identify which other funders are supporting RCUK-funded researchers
Challenges • Changes are required to systems that are outside of RCUK’s controls • Councils have a number of competing priorities for system changes and there are currently other higher business priorities
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