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RDM & Scholarly Communication News @ VIU Library

05/05/2025
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From CRKN:

The PID Matrix is a tool that can help you to choose the right PID for the right problem. In particular, it compares gold standard open and public options (like ORCID and DOIs) to proprietary options

More about the National PID Strategy to support research infrastructure:
https://www.crkn-rcdr.ca/en/national-pid-strategy#pid

Contact the Library with your questions about DOIs, ORCID, or other persistent identifiers. 

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05/05/2025
profile-icon Dana McFarland

Recordings, next steps, and continued engagement opportunities are now available for the recent Canadian Sovereign AI Compute Infrastructure Program - Town Hall via the Sovereign AI Compute webpage:

https://alliancecan.ca/sovereign-ai

First posted on May 5, 2025: 

Please join us for a virtual Town Hall on Thursday, May 8 from [11 am to noon Pacific] for an update on the Alliance’s collaboratively-developed Statement of Interest in Canada’s AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program.

Registration:

https://engagedri-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/VUkwtOhfTa6Fod-0GK6xuQ#/registration

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05/02/2025
profile-icon Dana McFarland

 From the abstract:

An accurate record of scientific output is integral in academia. Maintaining accurate records of scientific output is important for documentation, discoverability, and assessment. Many aspects of academic life depend upon viewing research activity, including promotion, tenure, research grants, and service opportunities (Craft, 2020; HuMetricsHSS, 2022; Kjellberg & Haider, 2019). To maintain a digital academic presence, researchers use researcher profile systems, which fall into different types, including persistent identifiers (PIDs) (e.g., ORCID), researcher profiles (e.g., Web of Science Researcher Profiles/Publons, Google Scholar Profiles), and academic social networks (e.g., ResearchGate).

Researcher profile systems are increasing in prominence among academics and researchers. Reasons for using researcher profile systems include name disambiguation (distinguishing one researcher from another with the same name), promotion of scientific output, collaboration, maintaining an accurate list of research, tracking citations and research metrics (bibliometrics), and increasing the visibility of scholarly work. Researcher profiles increase the visibility of scholarly output…

Recommendations:

  •  Smaller arts and humanities publishers integrate with ORCID and require submitting authors to have an ORCID profile.
  •  Implement ORCID mandatory fields (e.g., full name and institutional or professional affiliation) and/or a minimum number of scholarly works.
  • Integrate contents of ORCID profiles to institutional or organizational profiles.
  • Upon registration, ORCID suggests authorization of third-party integrations (e.g., Crossref Metadata Search and Scopus).
  • Academic librarians continue to instruct and advocate for researcher profile systems.

Full article:

Justin Fuhr, Caroline Monnin; Researcher profile system adoption and use across discipline and rank: A case study at the University of Manitoba. Quantitative Science Studies 2024; 5 (3): 573–592. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00319

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