Nine funders, including UKRI, Royal Society and Wellcome Trust have all signed an open letter pledging their commitment to implementing ORCID IDs: Full article on Research Professional

This is a very welcome move that follows increasing use of ORCID in publishing processes, and journals, as well as its inclusion as an optional field in exercises such as the annual HESA return and the upcoming REF2021.

This also relevant locally with the recent decision to mandate ORCID for those on the research career pathway here at Greenwich, and its integration into GALA to allow you to populate your ORCID page from GALA, and vice versa. Find out more about adding your ORCID to GALA on the LibGuide.

Don’t know what ORCID is? Take a look below at a short film from ORCID: