Public Access Policies for Federally Funded Research

Persistent Identifier (PID) or Digital Persistent Identifier (DPI):   A digital identifier that is globally unique, persistent, machine resolvable and processable, and has an associated metadata schema.

A number of PIDs are used in research administration across the world to ensure research integrity and interoperability. The selected examples in the table below are found in this report:

U.S. National PID Strategy

The current guidance on using PID / DPI for for federally funded research in the U.S. is presented in these two documents:

P. 6  Federal agencies should, consistent with applicable law:

a) Collect and make publicly available appropriate metadata associated with scholarly publications and data resulting from federally funded research, to the extent possible at the time of deposit in a public access repository. Such metadata should include at minimum:

• i) all author and co-author names, affiliations, and sources of funding, referencing digital persistent identifiers, as appropriate;
• ii) the date of publication; and,
• iii) a unique digital persistent identifier for the research output;

b) Instruct federally funded researchers to obtain a digital persistent identifier that meets the common/core standards of a digital persistent identifier service defined in the NSPM-33 Implementation Guidance, include it in published research outputs when available, and provide federal agencies with the metadata associated with all published research outputs they produce, consistent with the law, privacy, and security considerations.

c) Assign unique digital persistent identifiers to all scientific research and development awards and intramural research protocols that have appropriate metadata linking the funding agency and their awardees through their digital persistent identifiers.

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As an open, non-proprietary, researcher-driven platform, ORCID meets all common/core standards for a DPI solution for individual researchers, inventors, and authors as defined in Section 5 of NSPM-33 Implementation Guidance for DPIs.