ORCID and CrossRef Collaborate to Accurately Attribute Authorship of Scholarly Content

Two not-for profit organizations, ORCID and CrossRef, have collaborated to solve the problem of ambiguous author names in scholarly content. ORCID began assigning unique identifiers to researchers in October. As part of the ORCID Registry, individuals can search the metadata from CrossRef, the largest organization assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to scholarly content, and add their works to their personal ORCID records. For more on this, see: http://subscription-agents.org/orcid-and-crossref-collaborate-accurately-attribute-authorship-scholarly-content

For more information on ORCID, or to register for your own ORCID ID, please see http://www.orcid.org.

High-impact open access journals

Librarians are sometimes asked to identify high-impact open access journals. That’s a hard question, in part because there’s not much consensus about how to measure journal impact. Andrew Bonamici takes a stab at answering the question. http://openaccess.uoregon.edu/2012/03/02/high-impact-open-access-journals/

Open Access Explained!

Right to Research Coalition launched a video in collaboration with PhD Comics. The video entitled “Open Access Explained!” provides a quick look at the many reasons why Open Access to research is important for students, researchers, and other stakeholders.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY&feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1