UK PIDs for Open Access progress update

Roadmap identified areas to help UK optimise use of PIDs

• Multi-consortium
• Targeted interventions
• Benefits analysis
• Governance engagement
• Sustainability
   

Community Survey - Highlights

• Adoption
  • The technical burden and costs of integration are too high, and the perceived value of PIDs is too low
• Metadata
  • Metadata needs to be predictably present, contain more consistent elements, and be reliably maintained and updated
• Benefits
  • PIDs are desired across the sector for their potential to enable better interoperability and data re-use for reporting and analysis
• Priorities
  • Respondents want to see PIDs being used optimally in funding systems, content platforms which host research outputs, and RIM tools

Setting up the Research Identifier National Coordinating Committee (RINCC) to focus on governance and community accountability

• To liaise with PID providers, align integrations, and provide strategic oversight to these activities
• Establish balanced community representation (different organisation types, international partners etc.)