It’s rare for researchers to dance in the streets when the Australian Research Council makes an announcement but they will this morning. From November researchers will be able to use their Open Researcher and Contributor ID to auto-populate ARC application forms. An ORCID ID ties to individuals’ research records and linking it to the ARC’s research management system “will reduce the burden of repeated manual entry of publication data.”
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