Ask Me Anything: University Presses
30 September
Learn how university presses are using ORCID to support publishing workflows, organizational goals, and broader scholarly communication.
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The 14th OAI Workshop will take place online 10-14 November 2025. This event is a premier global event on Open Science. The theme of OAI14 is Open Science in a changing world.
Speakers and talks are added to the program continuously as soon as they are confirmed. Make sure to go to this page to get the latest info. - https://oai.events/oai14/. The registration form to register for the conference is also available here. Registration is free and open to anyone across the globe.
From 16 to 18 October 2025, the 4th United Nations Open Science and Open Scholarship Conference will convene policymakers, IGO representatives, researchers, scholars, librarians, publishers, and civil society, both online and in person at the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo, Japan.
The Conference will serve as an urgent call to accelerate transformations in science and scholarship in alignment with the Pact for the Future, to map progress in national and international efforts towards opening the record of science, and to inspire collaborative actions and coalitions to expedite progress ensuring no country, community, or individual is left behind.
More information:
https://www.un.org/en/library/OS25
Registration:
https://www.un.org/en/library/OS25/registration
Please note these upcoming learning opportunities featured in the Alliance Newsletter – July 2025:
Training opportunities
Here is a selection of upcoming training events from our partners:
- August 6 – Introduction to Git and GitHub: Part 1
- August 20 – Building Project Websites with Jekyll and GitHub Pages
- August 25 – Data Bites - Creating a Data Management Plan (DMP)
- August 28 – Introduction to APIs
Discover more training opportunities through Explora
From the Alliance Newsletter – July 2025:
Presentation materials from RDM Jumpstart are now available online. This week-long workshop in May addressed the importance and main principles of research data management (RDM), while exploring the increase in RDM requirements by funders and publishers.
Presentation files are linked from each calendar event.
The guidelines are unanimous that AI tools cannot be listed as co-authors or take responsibility for the content. Authors remain fully responsible for verifying the accuracy, ethical use and integrity of all AI-influenced content. Routine assistance does not need citation, but any substantive AI-generated content must be clearly referenced.
Let’s unpack this a bit more…
Full post:
From the announcement:
The CFI works to increase the capability of Canada’s universities, colleges, research hospitals and non-profit research organizations to carry out high quality research by investing in research infrastructure.
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) produces unique, persistent identifiers that researchers can use with multiple organizations to compile the outputs of their research activities.
This is part of an overall effort to reduce the administrative burden for the research community in relation to data collection in all our processes. In addition, the integration of persistent unique identifiers such as ORCID is a facilitator in the ongoing transition towards open science.
More information:
https://www.crkn-rcdr.ca/en/canada-foundation-innovation-joins-orcid-canada-consortium
Brown, Josh and Meadows, Alice (2025). “It’s “ORCID and…,” not “ORCID or…”: How researcher identifiers work together to help researchers, build a better picture of research, and streamline administrative tasks.” MoreBrains Cooperative. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15737460
In some communities, where national, disciplinary, or
proprietary researcher identifiers are well established and
widely used, ORCID is seen as an ‘extra’ identifier, whose
value is not always apparent. However, ORCID is most
powerful in combination with these other identifier types.
Integrations between ORCID
and other types of researcher
identifiers benefit everyone, by enabling trustworthy
information – validated in one or both systems – to flow
seamlessly across the many online tools and platforms used
by researchers and their organizations.
https://explora.alliancecan.ca/
Search Explora for workshops, webinars, bootcamps, and other training events across Canada designed to help researchers at any career stage develop skills in advanced research computing, research data management, and research software.
Upcoming offerings include:
Online
Data Bites - File Naming Best Practices for Research Data
30 June 2025 @ 12:30 - 13:00
UBC Library
Online
Webinar "Practical Multidimensional Arrays and Linear Algebra in C++"
2 July 2025 @ 12:00 - 13:00
SHARCNET
Online
Introduction to SQL
2 July 2025 @ 11:00 - 13:00
UBC Library
Online
Introduction to Regular Expressions, part 2
2 July 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:30
UBC Library
Online
Data Bites - Choosing File Formats for Research Data
7 July 2025 @ 12:30 - 13:00
UBC Library