ORCiD and GitHub

You can now link your ORCiD account with GitHub and make it easier to add your code contributions to your academic profile!

Zenodo and GitHub

You can also link your GitHub project with Zenodo, so a DOI can be assigned to it, which makes your GitHub code better citable.

Can you consider GitHub to be a FAIR platform?

By combining GitHub, ORCiD, and Zenodo,

• You can share your code with a wide programmer community on GitHub
• You can document your contributions automatically with your ORCiD in your GitHub and Zenodo repositories
• You can make your code and research more FAIR by adding metadata, generating a DOI, and having your code indexed with Zenodo

What is ORCiD?

ORCiD (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), is a unique identifier for researchers and scholars. It provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes individual researchers and connects them with their research activities and outputs. You can use it on a multitude of platforms to link all your academic work together; including articles, books, data, and now code. The ORCiD is also helpful for distinguishing yourself when you might share a name with someone else, change your name, or change institutions.

You can find out more and sign up on their website

What is GitHub?

GitHub is a versatile and widely-used platform that offers a range of code versioning and management use cases for developers, researchers, and organizations. Users collaborate in real time through GitHub’s tooling and simple interface, which is why it is commonly used for personal projects, university assignments, and managing code in team settings. The platform serves as the main integration point with other software, including continuous integration and continuous deployment services, allowing for seamless workflow automation.

You can find out more and sign up on their website: https://github.com

Find out more about Utrecht University’s organizational account here:

What is Zenodo?

Zenodo is an open repository for all scholarship, enabling researchers from all disciplines to share and preserve their research outputs, regardless of size or format, Zenodo makes scientific outputs of all kinds citable, shareable and discoverable for the long term. The storage of all data is hosted by CERN and for a large part funded by the European Commission via OpenAIRE.

You can upload datasets up to 50GB for free to Zenodo. The platform uses DataCite metadata and records are indexed in the DataCite data search engine.