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ORCID announces PKP among second round of Global Participation Fund Awardees

By Famira Racy and Urooj Nizami
ORCID announces PKP among its second round of Global Participation Fund Awardees! (white Teko block text highlighted in red). The detailed message on the image reads: "This grant, through the GPF Community Development and Outreach Program, opens doors for PKP to participate in the continued growth, community building, and support of scholars using OJS in Indonesia (black Roboto text in lower case on a white background). The messaging is set in the foreground of a photograph by PKP's Jason Nugent. A large tree towers up high, its green canopy contrasting against a blue sky with whisps of cloud. The tree is strong, and the support around its base makes it stronger. The PKP 25 year logo is in white at the lower right corner.

PKP is pleased to announce that it was named an awardee of ORCID’s Global Participation Fund (GPF), an initiative of ORCID’s Global Participation Program. The news was originally released on ORCID’s blog.

The Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) vision is built around openness, trust, and inclusion, fostering “a world where all who participate in research, scholarship, and innovation are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions across disciplines, borders, and time.”

This vision is realized by providing three services: (1) ORCID IDs, (2) ORCID records, and (3) a set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), as pictured below. 

What ORCID does: (1) ORCID IDs, (2) ORCID records, and (3) a set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Three services provided by ORCID to realize its vision, from the organization’s “About” page shared under CC0 1.0 Universal.

ORCID’s Global Participation Program (GPP), of which the GPF is a part, is a further manifestation of this vision meant to encourage the uptake of these services and foster the building of ORCID Communities of Practice in underrepresented countries.

The GPF provides grants under two programs – the Community Development and Outreach Program and the Technical Integration Program.

Specifically, the Community Development and Outreach Program grants support “local partners in under-represented areas to build ORCID Communities of Practice. These grants can be used to support local outreach activities, training, and tech support resources for the creation and growth of ORCID consortia that serve those regions.”

The values, mission, and objectives of both PKP and ORCID are well aligned, and this grant opens doors for the continued growth, community building, and support of scholars in Indonesia.

Thanks to this grant, PKP will support Indonesian scholarly publishing communities to build ORCID Communities of Practice through:

  1. Work with Indonesian university, government, and publishing representatives to establish sustainable ORCID Global Participation Fund memberships involving a portion of the country’s 15,000 OJS-using journals;
  2. Work with the Indonesian community’s technical capacity for upgrading OJS installations to support utilization of the latest integrity features, such as two-way ORCID / journal integrity verification.

Urooj Nizami, Community Engagement and Outreach Librarian at PKP, led the way in the process and had this to share about the GPF award granted to PKP through the Community Development and Outreach Program:

PKP is thrilled to have received ORCID’s GPF grant through its Community Development and Outreach Program. The grant will significantly contribute to our mission and objectives in two key ways. First, the grant will help in the critical work of cultivating a robust and diverse scholarly publishing environment through cooperation, collaboration, and interoperability across open infrastructures.

We are dedicated to strengthening ties with our strategic partners and, by bolstering ORCID’s existing efforts, the grant offers an exciting chance for collaboration aimed at improving barrier free access, global reach, impact, and quality in the Indonesian scholarly publishing ecosystem.

Second, PKP is dedicated to enhancing support for regions that rely on and benefit from our software. Indonesia is home to the largest user base of Open Journal Systems (OJS), with over 14,0001 journals utilizing PKP’s free and open-source platform. Given the significant OJS user base in Indonesia and PKP’s community-driven mission, this grant is crucial for engaging PKP’s user communities.

This presentation by PKP Community Engagement and Outreach Librarian Urooj Nizami is a brief overview of the project goals, benefits to the focus community, building on existing initiatives, and PKP’s project plan.

The GPP “will improve equity of access to interconnected research infrastructure”, of which PKP is thankful and delighted to be a part of.

Please consult ORCID’s GPF page or contact ORCID for more details about the program. Please contact PKP with questions about its specific involvement in the program.

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1Beacon data, Version 3 (2022); filtered by OJS application; Indonesian journals by country_consolidated; record_count_2021, ≥5.