ORCID in Germany
Since 2016, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has been fostering the dissemination of the ORCID iD in Germany through its three-year project „ORCID DE – Förderung der Open Researcher and Contributor ID in Deutschland“ [1] (project proposal under DOI: 10.2312/lis.16.01 [2]).
The project aims to support the implementation of the ORCID iD at universities and non-university research institutions in Germany – organisationally, legally and technically. In particular, the ORCID iD is considered relevant for open access repositories and open access publishing services. A further goal of the project is the interlocking with the Integrated Authority File (GND) [3] and thus the integration of the ORCID iD into library systems for author identification. The ORCID project partners commissioned a legal report on the protection of data privacy in ORCID [4], which is now online available.
ORCID DE project partners are the Helmholtz Open Science Coordination Office at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, the German National Library and the University Library Bielefeld. The project was initiated by the German Initiative for Network Information (DINI).