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The ORCID login and DSpace repositories

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Why we applied to the ORCID Global Participation Fund.

ORCID is an essential service for us. It allows scholars to connect to their research results globally and across multiple services. And ORCID offers the option to seamlessly authenticate to many services in the context of research. This makes it possible to log in to a service that supports this with a central login, regardless of institutional affiliation.

DSpace is the open source software that powers the most publication repositories in the world. Over 3000 installations are listed in the registry. They are distributed over all continents. DSpace or the variant DSpace-CRIS is also used to operate TUHH Open Research for Open Access publication, research data and research information at the TU Hamburg.

So what could be more obvious than an ORCID login under DSpace?

This has actually been around for a long time in TORE with the DSpace CRIS variant. And in the meantime also in DSpace since version 7.3 from last year. But there can be constellations where this login does not work after all. Unfortunately, it is then hardly possible to explain the problem with helpful error messages.

Questioning looks regarding the ORCID Login in DSpace

This work by Ines Rettmer is licensed under CC BY 4.0

The problem is actually not a problem but a good concept: ORCID gives each and everyone full sovereignty over the visibility for every single piece of information in their own ORCID record. And one piece of information that is not readily made available to the public is one’s own email address. So authentications that require access to the email address will fail if an external service is not allowed to access it.

So the other side – in this case DSpace – has to come up with a good and intuitive concept to allow users to share their email for login.

ORCID Login Project

At TU Hamburg, we have already initiated a lot for the ORCID connection for DSpace for TUHH Open Research. But this point was still missing on our implementation list. Therefore, we applied for the ORCID Global Participation Fund (GPF) in the area of Technical Integration with the project “ORCID Login improvement for DSpace-CRIS”. Fortunately, the application was successful in terms of a best practice solution for an ORCID integration, so hopefully by the end of 2023 we will be able to present a solution that should simplify the ORCID login for all DSpace(-CRIS) installations worldwide.

For the implementation we are supported by the company 4Science, who originally developed the ORCID integration under DSpace. We are looking forward to a productive project and are always open for suggestions or comments from the community.

Kick-Off slides

Goldschmidt, Oliver (2023). Improving the login procedure to ORCID in DSpace(-CRIS) 7. TUHH Universitätsbibliothek. https://doi.org/10.15480/882.4985

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#OAWeek2022: The PDF is not enough: Why science needs open formats

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Contribution from Axel Dürkop und Florian Hagen

During the project period from 2019 to 2021, the Modern Publishing project bundled many years of experience of the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and the Hamburg State and University Library (SUB) as part of the Hamburg Open Science (HOS) initiative. The goal: The development of a socio-technical system for single source publishing, i.e. for the generation of different output formats from one source format. This was based on open source solutions such as GitLab and Open Journal Systems (OJS) to enable an open alternative approach to publishing scientific results compared to commercial and proprietary publishing offerings.

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#OAWeek2022: Free the world climate report together

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A contribution by Axel Dürkop and Axel Dürkop

One of the most important sources of information on the subject of climate is the UN’s IPCC reports. These are published approximately every five years. The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published in 2021 and 2022 in various volumes, unfortunately in the form of PDF files. This makes it difficult for people and machines to read, as well as to use them as widely as possible. The fact that parts of the reports are gradually being supplied in HTML format is encouraging.

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Diamonds as a way out of the crisis? A (partial) look at Diamond Open Access and the OA color palette

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The Open Access movement is a comparatively young movement. It developed in the 1990s as a result of the so-called journal crisis. During this crisis, prices rose, especially in STEM subjects – a collective term for professions or fields of study in mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology, which are also referred to as MINT subjects in Germany. At the same time, library budgets stagnated or shrank. One consequence: the number of paid journal subscriptions declined. Publishers tried to compensate for this loss of revenue with further price increases – a cycle that Open Access wants to break.

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Survey results on reference management at TUHH

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Via a blog post and other communication channels, the tub. in cooperation with the Computing Center invited participation in a survey on the topic of reference management. The feedback will help to ensure that the service offering for reference management continues to provide TU members with the best possible support in the future, in line with existing requirements and needs. The results are now available.

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Homework help wanted?

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Source: ZBW Econbiz

Here, of course, is meant the term paper in the context of the study, that is, the one that has to be written ;-)

Term papers are not necessarily a favorite activity for many students during their studies. However, they are a good way to prepare for writing a thesis. If you are going to write a term paper soon – perhaps during the Christmas break or at another time – then we can recommend a practical handout from the ZBW – Leibniz Information Center for Economics to support you. It provides you with the most important information on how to get started. The handout is not only suitable for the subject of economics, but also describes the general procedure for writing a term paper or bachelor thesis.

One focus is on finding the right literature, i.e. research and tips on this, such as the search term diagram. But also the evaluation of sources is discussed and of course the creation of an exposé and the correct citation. On the pages of the ZBW you will also find more information.

And for those who would prefer to have the brochure in printed form, there are several copies in German or English available at the tub. service desk.

Survey on literature management at the TUHH – your opinion is needed

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A few weeks ago, we announced the availability of Citavi Web trial access at TU in this blog post and via circular email. We had also announced that we would ask you about your experiences and impressions with Citavi Web at the end of the test period.

In the course of planning a possible further licensing of Citavi or possibly another program, we would also like to take this opportunity to find out from you in general what your requirements and needs are with regard to literature management programs and how we (Computer Center and Library) can best support you in this regard in the future.

Your answers are important for us and will help us to decide in which form a literature management program will be available at TUHH in the future to support your scientific work. We would therefore be pleased to have a large number of participants in the survey. We will let you know the result and also how the further planning looks like.

Here is the link to our survey (Update: January 10th, 2022, survey closed).

Thank you very much for your participation!