2026-10-27 –, LUMC05
What are the catalysts for membership growth in PID communities? Are you engaging with a new or emerging group of stakeholders that are still learning about PIDs? Speakers from Canada and the United States will discuss how national government policies on research integrity and security, organizational Open Access initiatives, and other open science efforts have provided opportunities to expand PID community engagement and adoption from early adopters (like libraries and publishers) to new stakeholders learning about PIDs (like research administrators and funders). After a brief presentation, participants in this session will engage in small group discussion to identify opportunities to increase PID awareness and adoption, and share ideas on engaging new stakeholders. The session will conclude with collective reflections, offering practical insights into promoting PID adoption and strengthening global research communities.
What are the catalysts for membership growth in PID communities? Are you engaging with a new or emerging group of stakeholders that are still learning about PIDs? Speakers from Canada and the United States will highlight how Persistent Identifier related policies, such as national government policies on research integrity and security, organizational Open Access initiative, and other strategic efforts, have provided opportunities to expand PID community engagement from early adopters to new stakeholders learning about PIDs. For example, research administrators managing grants and awards at universities and colleges are increasingly required to understand the use of PIDs in the research ecosystem to assist researchers in fulfilling funding requirements, or higher education administrators who are learning about the importance of PIDs to make their researchers and research much more visible and accessible. These new and emerging PID stakeholders want to know how PIDs impact their day-to-day work, as well as how PIDs best serve their researchers and their entire organization.
We will discuss our approaches and ideas on how we have worked with new and emerging stakeholders in our community - but then we want to hear from you. After a brief presentation, you will be randomly grouped together to discuss policies and/or initiatives that are affecting your PID communities, identify opportunities to increase PID awareness and growth in PID adoption, and share ideas on engaging new stakeholders. We will provide questions to guide the group discussion. Then, all participants will reconvene to share ideas, reflections, and insights.
You will learn about the different policies and initiatives positively affecting PID communities worldwide. You will also gain insight into how to both promote PIDs and engage with new and emerging stakeholders learning about PIDs for the first time.
This session will be of interest to PID community leads, research infrastructure providers, and librarians and other research organization staff learning about how to engage with new stakeholders.
John Aspler graduated from McGill University with a PhD in Neuroscience. Although originally interested in music cognition, his exposure to a stream of problematic neuroscience-related news publications both cultivated and cemented in him an interest in improving public scientific literacy. John pursued his research at McGill University and the Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit, where he worked on several projects about the media discourse surrounding people with neurodevelopmental disabilities (e.g., fetal alcohol spectrum disorder). He is also Manager, Canadian Persistent Identifier Community / Gestionnaire, Communauté canadienne des identifiants pérennes at CRKN-RCDR.
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Paolo P. Gujilde has spent over a decade advancing the scholarly communication ecosystem across research organizations. He currently serves as Senior Strategist for the ORCID US Community at Lyrasis. In this role, Paolo partners with research institutions to support the implementation and adoption of ORCID—providing researchers with persistent identifiers that enhance visibility, attribution, and interoperability. He also advises organizations on best practices for advancing Open and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) research. Paolo holds a graduate degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Learn more about his work at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9758-5740