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Press release August 15, 2011: ORCID funding and development efforts on target
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Press release from ORCID, Inc August 15, 2011 For Immediate Release
ORCID funding and development efforts on target Thomson Reuters Provides Royalty-Free License for ResearcherID Code to Accelerate Development
More than 40 organizations have donated to the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) initiative. From December 2010 through March 2011, ORCID raised $244,000 from 44 Founding Sponsors. To achieve its near-term objectives, ORCID needs to raise a further $250,000. A funding drive continues through the year. In August 2010, the ORCID Initiative received a certificate of incorporation as a non-profit organization. ORCID, Inc. will address the name ambiguity problem in the scholarly research community in part by managing a registry of unique contributor identifiers. To continue its work, ORCID needs both participation and funds from the community. To date, over 250 organizations have signed up as Participants; 42% are academic institutions 23% are scholarly societies and other non-profit organizations; 15% are commercial publishers; the remaining 21% are government institutions, foundations, and corporations. “We thank our founding sponsors for their critical support for ORCID in 2011,” said Howard Ratner, Chair of the ORCID Board of Directors. “The ORCID Initiative has the potential to offer benefits to every organization involved in scholarly research and communication. This start-up funding will help to ensure that ORCID can achieve its goals as a non-profit, community initiative.” The donations of Founding Sponsors will enable ORCID to continue development work until the launch of membership fees and other sources of income. In March 2011, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard and Cornell received a $45,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to undertake a business feasibility study for ORCID. The study will explore several models for sustaining ORCID in the long term: membership, fee-forservice, and sponsorship. Existing funds are being used to hire a small team of developers, with phase 1 development completed in the first half of 2012. Other key activities include completing the 501c3 filing, to ensure that ORCID can operate as a non-profit, tax-exempt organization. ORCID Board members and working groups give their time and expertise pro-bono, with the support of their organizations. Thomson Reuters Supplies Core Resources to Advance the ORCID System ORCID and Thomson Reuters have reached an agreement that enables ORCID to start building the ORCID service based on ResearcherID code. Thomson Reuters has provided ORCID with a perpetual license and royalty free use of ResearcherID code and intellectual property, giving ORCID the critical technology to create its system. The agreement also allows ORCID to build upon the ResearcherID code base under an open source model,
speeding the organization’s progress towards a registry of unique contributor identifiers and a disambiguation service. “The ResearcherID license provides several core capabilities that will advance development of the ORCID system, including the ability to generate unique IDs for researchers, house their biographic information, and interact with other researcher identification systems around the world,” said David Kochalko, vice president at Thomson Reuters and a member of the ORCID Board of Directors. “As a founding member of ORCID, Thomson Reuters is pleased to provide ORCID with resources to jump start initial development licensed in a way to enable an open source approach to future development consistent with the organization’s principles.” A full list of founding sponsors is available on the ORCID website: http://www.orcid.org/sponsors.
About ORCID, Inc. ORCID, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to solving the name ambiguity problem in scholarly research and brings together the leaders of influential universities, funding organizations, societies, publishers and corporations from around the globe. The ideal solution is to establish a registry that is adopted and embraced as the de facto standard by the whole of the community. A resolution to the systemic name ambiguity problem, by means of assigning unique identifiers linkable to an individual's research output, will enhance the scientific discovery process and improve the efficiency of funding and collaboration. The organization is managed by a fourteen member Board of Directors. For more information, visit www.orcid.org. More information: Organizations interested in joining ORCID, or becoming sponsors are encouraged to contact: Martin Fenner, Chair ORCID Outreach Working Group, m.fenner@orcid.org OR www.orcid.org.
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