Research Infrastructure Communities

Lyrasis serves as the US community home for consortial programs designed to help organizations of all kinds to leverage best practices for open research infrastructure:

The ORCID US Community is a national consortium and community of practice for nonprofit organizations that are members of ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor Identifier).

Visit the ORCID US Community

​The Lyrasis DataCite US Community is a national consortium and community of practice for nonprofit organizations assigning DataCite DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) to their local research and scholarly materials.

Visit the Lyrasis DataCite US Community

The IRUS (Institutional Repository Usage Statistics) US Community allows participating organizations to gather open, COUNTER-compliant usage statistics for materials in repositories.

Visit the IRUS-US Community

RAiD (Research Activity Identifier) is a persistent identifier and global registry for identifying, tracking and sharing research projects.

Visit the US RAiD Pilot