ORCID Poised to Support Research Institutions in New Era of Public Access and Research Security -

"On 14 January, 2021, the OSTP first signaled its support for persistent identifiers in a Presidential Memorandum on the topic of Research Security, now commonly referred to as NSPM-33. This memo gives direction to the major US Federal funding agencies which includes the adoption of persistent identifier (PID) infrastructure as an important way of enabling researchers to be transparent about their research activities while reducing administrative burden. The NSPM-33 Guidance published a year later further described the role and expectations of funders in adopting persistent identifiers and listed the standards that a PID service for researchers must meet to be included in Federal grant application processes. ORCID is the only organization that currently satisfies all of these criteria. Fast forward to 25 August, 2022, when OSTP published a subsequent memo that is expected to have lasting impacts on the research community. The memo, titled “Guidance to Make Federally-Funded Research Freely Available Without Delay”—also known informally as the “Nelson memo” or the “Public Access memo”—has implications reaching far beyond the US citizens it was designed to address.  In this article we discuss the new requirements that NSPM-33 and the Nelson memo levy on research funders, universities and research institutions, and researchers themselves.  We cover how these requirements will improve the integrity and trustworthiness of research, and perhaps most importantly, the potential of the openness and transparency reflected in the requirements to help the world meet the ever growing challenges of the 21st century...."