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Seconded. I'm not an academic but I deal with academic publishing and I might want to participate. My suggestion: use ORCiD.org for authentication with OAuth.
by afandian 9y ago
Seconded. I'm not an academic but I deal with academic publishing and I might want to participate.
My suggestion: use ORCiD.org for authentication with OAuth. This is a researcher profile. Most academics have one (or should!). They're free, the service is open. I think it strikes the right balance between barrier-to-entry for spam and accessibility.
- icebraining 9y agoHow does ORCiD.org itself deal with spam? Seems like they just use a captcha, no?
- killjoywashere 9y agoMore about ORCiD for the skeptical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID
- afandian 9y agoIf anyone has any questions I can ask someone from ORCiD to come over here and answer them. They're very open!
- Vinnl 9y agoI've implemented sign-in using ORCID, and although I support the idea, its UX is far from great, its documentation isn't either, and it also isn't terribly stable (it was down on my launch day...).