If you use the DMP Assistant to support data management planning, please note this upcoming maintenance window for the DMP Assistant service as it migrates to new infrastructure:
May 21, 2025 8:30 to 11 am PT
We were unable to deliver the migration [on May 15] during the maintenance window. We will schedule a second outage for Wednesday, May 21, 2025, from 08:30-11:00 PT in order to complete this work.
Updates will be posted at this link: https://status.alliancecan.ca/
UBC Data Bites workshops are now available for sign up for the summer term, and open to the public. These workshops support skill building in a wide range of research data management topics and task.
Session topics and registration:
Porter, S.R. Understanding ORCID adoption among academic researchers. Scientometrics (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05300-7
Abstract:
ORCID has proven essential in identifying individual researchers and their publications, both for bibliometric research analyses and for universities and other organizations tracking the research productivity and impact of their personnel. Yet widespread adoption of the ORCID by individual researchers has proved elusive, with previous studies finding adoption rates ranging from 3% to 42%. Using a national survey of U.S. academic researchers at 31 research universities, we investigate why some researchers adopt an ORCID and some do not. We found an overall adoption rate of 72%, with adoptions rates ranging between academic disciplines from a low of 17% in the visual and performing arts to a high of 93% in biological and biomedical sciences. Many academic journals require an ORCID to submit a manuscript, and this is the main reason why researchers adopt an ORCID. The top three reasons for not having an ORCID are not seeing the benefits, being far enough in the academic career to not need it, and working in an academic discipline where it is not needed.
Full article:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-025-05300-7
Recordings from WestDRI's seminar series are made available through their YouTube channel.
WestDRI is part of the Research Computing Group at SFU (https://www.rcg.sfu.ca), offers a range of tutorials and online workshops targeted at helping researchers learn about and use SFU and Digital Research Alliance of Canada (https://alliancecan.ca) computing resources, as well as advanced skills in computational research.
Sessions range in length from 30 minutes to two hours and are delivered online via Zoom. For more information, visit https://training.westdri.ca or email training@westdri.ca.
A webinar offering from Advanced Research Computing training in Western Canada, organized by SFU on behalf of Western Universities:
Next Tuesday, April 22nd, please join us for the webinar "Cybersecurity Hygiene" with Scott Baker, at 10am Pacific / 11am Mountain and Saskatoon / 12pm Winnipeg time. To register, visit this page, or follow the link from our winter/spring 2025 webinar schedule.
Abstract: We all face a daily barrage of news about information cybersecurity: from hackers to breaches, flaws and vulnerabilities etc... This seemingly endless stream of content can lead to fear, confusion and even denial or abstinence from taking action. There are simple things everyone can do to be more secure. This session will provide an institutional-policy-agnostic, practical set of suggestions and plain language explanations of what can be done by individuals and teams within and outside the work environment and why each is important.
The 2025 winter/spring webinars are jointly presented by SFU's Research Computing Group and UBC's Advanced Research Computing.
