ORCIDs and ETDs: An innovative new program at Texas A&M | Free US ETDs (FUSE)

"The ORCID Organization just announced the results of its ORCID Adoption & Integration funding competition. Among the nine awardees selected for funding is Texas A&M University, whose proposed project will integrate ORCID iDs into the works of early scholars at the very beginning of their careers. As quoted in ORCID’s press release, Texas A&M’s Associate Provost for Graduate and Professional Studies, Dr. Karen Butler-Purry, explains that 'The goals of the Texas A&M ORCID integration project align well with efforts already in place at our university to engage graduate students in high impact experiences and ensure they are well versed on issues surrounding scholarly communications. In addition to enabling more effective management and tracking of our student’s scholarly outputs, the project has the potential to shape the research behavior of our future scholars through awareness building and graduate education.' Excerpts of the Texas A&M Proposal follow. For more information about ORCIDs+ ETDs@TAMU, please feel free to comment here on the Free US ETDs blog, or contact the Principal Investigator at gclement@tamu.edu."