ORCiD will be required for NIH Funder Grants (K Awards - Training) starting October 2019.

NIH is requiring ORCiD for applicants to K Training Grants starting in October 2019 and all applications in January 2020.  The eRA system will flag to the absence of ORCiD and stop the application process.  

3. Moving Toward Requiring ORCID IDs for Trainees, Fellows and K Awardees and Appointees

Facilitators: Laurie Roman, Jennifer Sutton and Anastasiya Hardison

ORCID ID will be required for appointees to institutional training grants and other awards that make appointments through xTrain, beginning in October 2019.

Applicants for fellowships and individual K awards will be required to have ORCID IDs beginning with applications for due dates on and after January 25, 2020. eRA systems will validate that the ORCID ID is present in the personal profile of the PD/PI Commons ID included in the Credential field of the application. An error will be given if the ORCID ID is not present and the error must be cleared in order to successfully submit. To help raise awareness of this change, a warning will be given starting this fall and will be switched to an error in early January.    

Comments to consider…

• Could the ORCID ID be included in the Person Module web service so S2S development could include data calls for it? (Yes)
• Could the ORCID ID be included as a search variable and as part of the data returned when searching for a user via the Account Management System (AMS)? (Yes)
• Need to caution users from accidently creating additional instances of ORCID IDs. ORCID folks are aware of this potential issue and are looking at ways to reduce the ability of users to create multiple IDs.
• Since the ID is designed to be a unique identifier, there is some discussion starting about adding new data to the Person Profile. Something along the line of:
• Aliases
• Preferred Name(s)
• Previous Name(s)
• There is no target date yet set to require the ID for other types of applications, but it is general agreed that that is the direction the process is going.

Source:  eRA Commons Working Group (CWG) Meeting Notes Notes 05-21-19

University of California Irvine joins OA2020 - June 21, 2019

June 21, 2019

The University of California Irvine has joined  OA2020 as part of the growing community of institutions and research organizations around the world that are taking steps to drive the transformation of today’s scholarly journals to open access.

About OA2020

Excerpt from the Statement of Interest for OA2020:

Expression Of Interest In The Large-Scale Implementation Of Open Access To Scholarly Journals

"Building on the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities and on the progress that has been achieved so far, we are pursuing the large-scale implementation of free online access to, and largely unrestricted use and re-use of scholarly research articles."

"To gain the full benefits of OA and enable a smooth, swift and scholarly oriented transition, the existing corpus of scholarly journals should be converted from subscription to open access. Recent developments and studies indicate that this transition process can be realized within the framework of currently available resources.

With this statement, we express our interest in establishing an international initiative for the OA transformation of scholarly journals, and we agree upon the following key aspects:

• We aim to transform a majority of today’s scholarly journals from subscription to OA publishing in accordance with community-specific publication preferences. At the same time, we continue to support new and improved forms of OA publishing.
• We will pursue this transformation process by converting resources currently spent on journal subscriptions into funds to support sustainable OA business models. Accordingly, we intend to re-organize the underlying cash flows, to establish transparency with regard to costs and potential savings, and to adopt mechanisms to avoid undue publication barriers.
• We invite all parties involved in scholarly publishing, in particular universities, research institutions, funders, libraries, and publishers to collaborate on a swift and efficient transition for the benefit of scholarship and society at large."