Potential pilot departments

Despite the uncertainties created by not knowing when PURE 4.19 will be available, we have been pressing on with the selection of potentially 3 departments to test our ORCID implementation. We will approach 3 relatively small departments, one from the sciences, one from social sciences and one from the arts and humanities.

Fingers crossed for positive responses. We are, of course, stressing the benefits that will accrue to the researchers/departments that take part in any pilot.

Problem with ORCID functionality in PURE 4.18

It is with great disappointment that we've discovered that PURE 4.18 is not going to give us the ORCID functionality that we wanted for our project. PURE 4.18 gives us a field for researchers to add their ORCID iD but the creation and check functions are not working. There is no fix in 4.18. If we want the ORCID functionality that we were looking for we will need to wait for 4.19 to be available to us.

Despite the best efforts of our colleagues, we do not have a timeline for the implementation of 4.19.