Societies Research
The ORCID system for author identifiers launched in mid-October 2012, and there are already 30,000 registrants. ORCID functionality is now live in the ScholarOne Manuscript system (S1M), and Wiley will enable it for our S1M journals in late December 2012
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Craig Van Dyck
Vice President, Global Content Management
Societies
A search on Yong Wang in Google Scholar finds Y Wang, YJ Wang, YX Wang, Yong Wang, Yong-Xu Wang, and Zhi-Yong Wang, all on the first screen of search results. John Smith gets JA, JK, JM, JMA, JP III, JS, and WJ Smith in the first three screens, Even a relatively unusual name like C…
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Craig Van Dyck
Vice President, Global Content Management
Societies Research
The Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) continue to be developed by the ORCID organization. During 2011, it received grants and other funding of around $600k from the Mellon Foundation, the US National Science Foundation, VIVO, and 50 other sponsors, including Wiley. An additional $1.3m in start-up loans has also been pledged by 15 CrossRef…
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Craig Van Dyck
Vice President, Global Content Management
Societies
STAR METRICS stands for Science and Technology in Americas Reinvestment Measuring the EffecTs of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness and Science, and is the result of collaboration between the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the White House Office for Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The project piloted in 2009…
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Jenny Neophytou
Bibliometrics Analyst
Societies Research
Launched late in 2009 as a collaborative effort to solve the problem of name ambiguity among contributors to scholarly research with a system that assigns them unique identifiers, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID ) initiative has made significant progress in its first year of activity. Since all the communities within the world of…
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Craig Van Dyck
Vice President, Global Content Management
Societies
Well over 100 Wiley employees are active in publishing industry organizations, working on everything from technical issues and copyright enforcement to environmental concerns, publishing ethics, and serving the handicapped and the economically disadvantaged. Our involvement brings multiple benefits, says Emily Gillingham, Director, Library and Institutional Marketing, Wiley-Blackwell, who has participated in such activity and tracked…
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John Lehmann-Haupt
Editor, Corporate Publications
Societies
A new collaborative initiative backed by a broad coalition of stakeholders, including Wiley-Blackwell and over 20 other STM publishers, aims to develop an open, independent identification system for scholarly authors. Under the name ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) it addresses the critical problems of name disambiguation and attribution. In a world full of Smiths,…
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Eefke Smit
Director of Standards & Technology, International Association of STM