Collaboration between FCT and ÜberResearch allows researchers to add information about projects to ORCID

Over the past few weeks, FCT and ÜberResearch have been working hard to make life easier for researchers funded by FCT.

The FCT recently adopted a digital system that identifies each researcher—the ORCID iD —as a first step toward creating a single national data repository for researchers, organizations, scientific infrastructures, projects, Studentships scientific, technological, and cultural output. This integrated information ecosystem will support research management, overcoming communication problems and interoperability issues that existing national (and institutional) systems present.

Information about projects and/or other means of funding obtained is an important component of scientific output, so it is possible to record this type of information in the respective ORCID profile. However, it has been found that, both in ORCID and in national repositories, manually updating project data is laborious and proves ineffective in creating a reliable database. FCT and ÜberResearch have worked together to solve this challenge. They have managed to integrate all information on FCT projects awarded since 2000 into ÜberResearch's global project database. With just a few clicks, researchers can now add information about projects to their ORCID profile.

ÜberWizward for ORCID allows researchers to import information from other funding sources, such as the NIH and NSF in the US, or the British Research Councils and Wellcome Trust in the UK, and over 50 other funding agencies.