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Moving Ahead with the UK National PID Strategy

This post has been written by MoreBrains Cooperative. Over the past few years, Jisc has been driving conversations about the need for a UK national strategy for persistent identifiers, in response to Professor Adam Tickell’s 2018 advice to the UK government on open access to research, in which he recommended that Jisc should lead on […]

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Can prediction markets be used to help assess research quality?

This post has been written by Dr Jacqueline Thomson, Senior Research Associate at the School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol. Researchers from the University of Bristol, in partnership with Jisc, have completed a pilot project investigating how prediction markets might be used to help institutions make decisions about which outputs to submit to future […]

Managing researcher identity and name changes using ORCID

UK ORCID Jisc consortium event report by Monica Duke In the UK, Jisc leads a consortium of ORCID implementors in higher education, consisting of nearly 100 Universities, research organisations and a major funder. ORCID is an identifier for contributors to research and is intended to help with continuity of identity for researchers across time, disciplines […]