Posts with the tag: ORCID

Digital Scholarship: About ORCID

What is ORCID? from ORCID on Vimeo. From https://members.orcid.org/outreach-resources ORCID iDs ensure you get credit for ALL of your work! Do you worry about getting credit for your research because your name is common or you have publications under multiple aliases? Do you struggle to keep track of all of your research outputs? Are you Read More

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Digital Scholarship: Have Your Say on Altmetrics!

The National Information Standards Organization NISO has been working under an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to “explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of potential metrics” in scholarly publishing. This work focuses on “new assessment metrics, which include usage-based metrics, social media references, and network behavioral analysis. In Read More

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Digital Scholarship @ CUA: Persistent Identifiers

Why we care and the cost of research Libraries care about “discovery” and usage statistics to justify the high costs of scholarly resources. Researchers need to find sources that are available and use and attribute them ethically. Faculty researchers want to do their research, but need to get grants, publish research and be cited. In Read More

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