The University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) reinvigorated their ORCID outreach efforts during the global pandemic in 2020, engaging the university’s stakeholders with successful results. UNLV, an ORCID US Community member, was granted an R1 research status in 2018. With this new distinction, more support for researchers to increase research activity has become a priority. … Read More
Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are part of the open research infrastructure that helps to make research and scholarly resources more FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). According to the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science and Technical Information, “A PID is a digital identifier that is globally unique, persistent, machine resolvable, has an associated metadata … Read More
Lyrasis Member Summit 2024 The Lyrasis 2024 Member Summit will be held via WebEx Events on this Thursday, February 22, 2024, from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. EST. Invitations containing the registration link have been emailed. If you did not receive or missed your invitation, please reach out to Jennifer Bielewski at jennifer.bielewski@lyrasis.org. Registration will close 24 … Read More
The Lyrasis Catalyst Fund 2024 cycle is now open! The Catalyst Fund is an award program that provides support for ideas and projects advancing the mission and reach of Lyrasis member organizations. It expands opportunities to explore, test, refine and collaborate on projects with the potential for community-wide impact. In 2024, the Catalyst Fund is … Read More
Our February Instructor Spotlight is Witnie Martinez. Witnie is teaching three classes this month: Donor Development Operations on Thursday, Feb. 1, 12 – 2 p.m. EST Donor Stewardship on Thursday, Feb. 15, 12 – 2 p.m. EST Donor Cultivation on Thursday, Feb. 29, 12 – 2 p.m. EST Witnie Martinez is the Founder & CEO of Absolute Impact … Read More
On January 22, registration opens for our virtual Member Summit, to be held on Thursday, February 22, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST, via WebEx Events. What to expect at the Member Summit: Speech Thomas, 2x Grammy Award Winning founder and lead singer of the 4x platinum hip-hop collective Arrested Development, will be our … Read More
An Essay by Laurie Arp and John Wilkin As one of his first member communications, John Wilkin, CEO of Lyrasis, shared his essay “Lyrasis in a Landscape of Radical Interdependence,” which introduced our areas of strategic focus and launched this essay series. In that essay, John wrote that “Lyrasis serves as the connective tissue, by … Read More
On September 19th, 2022, the ORCID US Community consortium welcomed the University of Georgia to speak on a case study implemented by their Graduate School to incite their graduate students to create professional profiles that would showcase their value as researchers. The university determined that they could use this opportunity to also promote ORCID iD … Read More
It’s been five years, and the ORCID US Community is still steadily growing, with plenty of exciting updates and important information from across the community below. Past newsletters can be found in the ORCID US Community Blog. To contribute to future newsletters, please email orcidus@lyrasis.org. Thank you! Community Snapshot Member institutions = 207 (as of … Read More
Building Connections: Community Engagement and Inclusion Trends in Cultural Institutions, the 2023 Lyrasis Research Report, explores the work of libraries, archives and museums to continue their outreach efforts and expand community inclusion during and after the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lyrasis Consulting staff members Tom Clareson and Leigh Grinstead worked with market research … Read More