THOR Disciplinary Workshop Series, part IV As part of the THOR project, we have been monitoring persistent identifier adoption across the research landscape. Preliminary analysis suggests that the humanities lag behind other fields. To explore the reasons why, we invited a group composed mostly of historians to a workshop at the British Library.

THOR Disciplinary Workshop Series, part III On June 12, PANGAEA held a short workshop on ORCID and its integration in PANGAEA at MARUM, the Center for Marine Environmental Science at the University of Bremen. As a Data Publisher in Earth and Environmental Sciences, PANGAEA operates an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research.

THOR Disciplinary Workshop Series, part II The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is a centre for research and services in bioinformatics. It performs basic research in computational biology and offers an extensive user training programme, supporting researchers in academia and industry. EMBL-EBI is part of EMBL, Europe’s flagship laboratory for the life sciences, and houses a diverse range of data repositories.

THOR Disciplinary Workshop Series, part I The High-Energy Physics (HEP) community is one out of four disciplinary communities that are in the focus of THOR. When it comes to addressing specific challenges within scholarly communication and Open Science in these communities, disciplinary workshops have proven to be a very effective tool to agree on community specific actions.

Date: June 20, 2017 Time: 16.00-17.00 CET Register here. THOR’s goal is to connect researchers, data and articles through persistent identifier services. Who is already using these services? And where? What are the factors that affect uptake? If we have better information about gaps and successes in PID adoption, we will be able to create better services.

THOR’s approach to sustainability relies on our partners taking on the THOR outputs as part of their regular business activities. This means that these outputs will need to be folded into their operations and will need to be sustained by their regular business models.

This is a guest blog post by THOR ambassador Patricia Herterich. Patricia is the Research Repository Advisor at the University of Birmingham Library and a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science.

Open Science needs incentives. Tracking data and software citation can be one of them. To facilitate that, THOR strives to improve the usage of persistent identifiers for all scholarly objects. Tracking citations has proven difficult since there has been little reuse so far, but a first step in that direction can be improving the visibility and findability of data and software.

The ongoing drive within the THOR project to identify and connect the research landscape reached Warsaw on Monday 24 April.

Please join the THOR Project for a series of three webinars focusing on applications of persistent identifiers (PIDs). The first webinar will explain what PIDs are and why they are important. The second will dive a bit deeper, giving more insight into how to use PIDs and what services can be built on top of identifier systems.