Author and Research Identifiers: An overview

Abstract

Scholar publishing industry, scholar communication and scientific research begun to move at much higher speed and with more effective channels in the changing scenario of digital pedagogy, learning and research. With latest development in open access revolution publishing and electronic repositories platforms are also growing with much pace. One of the big problems associated to the research community is to attributing research activities and an output correctly to a researcher is name ambiguities. Funding agencies, universities, and research institutes all face challenges of reliably identifying their researchers and monitoring outcomes over time. The paper discusses an overview on Research -Author Identifiers tools and platforms and their benefits in scholar communication environment. Different social networking platforms and their features are highlighted and importance of Author identifiers and how libraries can play an integrated role in research cycle is explained critically.