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Persistent Identifiers (PID) or Digital Persistent Identifiers (DPI)
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:
- RDA Pathways to National PID Strategies Guide and ChecklistPublished in 2023, this report is produced by the National PID Strategies Working Group of the Research Data Alliance. It includes case studies from Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the U.K. on using PIDs as part of national policy and research infrastructure implementation.
| Function | PID Provider |
| People | ORCID |
| Outputs | CrossRef and DataCite DOIs |
| Grants | CrossRef DOI, CrossRef Grant ID |
| Organizations | ROR, GRID, ISNI |
| Projects | RAiD |
Federal Guidance on PIDs / DPIs
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.
- NSPM-33 Implementation Guidance: Digital Persistent IdentifiersGuidance for implementing National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 (NSPM-33) on national security strategy for United States government-supported research and development. Provides the common/core standards of a DPI service (January 2022)
Learn More
- Webinar: US Federal Guidance and Persistent Identifiers (PIDs)ROR Community webinar December 2023. Panelists from ROR, ORCID, Crossref, DataCite and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information discuss guidance memos issued by the U.S. Federal Government that encourage the use of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs). Memos include the 2021 NSPM-33 memo and the 2022 OSTP Public Access memo.
ORCID for Researchers at UTSA
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.