Our commitment to open science
Systems built over centuries have encouraged us to protect our work, to guard our funding, to gate our breakthroughs. There is exceptional value in holding ourselves to the highest standards in publication and research—but there is also exceptional value in peeling back the layers that have slowed us down to accelerate forward. Open research is here. Altum makes sure you’re ready.
CHALLENGE
Without a universal identifier for researchers, it’s difficult to identify applicants, avoid peer review conflict of interest, and manage awardee deliverables.
Solution
ORCID allows scientists to manage their biography, career accomplishments, and education information in one place – saving them time and ensuring that the researcher and their outputs are unambiguous.
CHALLENGE
Without a universal identifier for researchers and awardees, it’s difficult to identify, track or highlight the work that they do.
Solution
With an ORCID ID associated with the researcher, reporting for institutions and funders becomes easier and more accurate.
We rely on Altum’s ProposalCentral as our platform for grants management. By connecting ORCID data with Crossref DOIs inside of ProposalCentral, we’re able to accurately track the outcomes of our grants and the impact our funded researchers are having long after the award ends.”
Former Senior Director, Scientific Program at the Melanoma Research Alliance
CHALLENGE
Without a universal identifier for grants, it’s difficult to see the connections between awards and outputs.
Solution
Crossref ensures that every grant is clearly and uniquely identified, making it easy to understand the relationships between funding and impact.
CHALLENGE
The Holy Grail for boards and donors is to show the return on investment associated with research grants. This is incredibly challenging today. First you must establish the connections between awardees, grants, publications, and patents. Then you must visualize those connections. Doing this without persistent identifiers is vexing, laborious, and prone to fail.
Solution
Altum Insights enables grant makers to see the connections instantly and accurately between people, programs, and publications. Funders that require the use of ORCID IDs for all applicants and who push grants to the Crossref Registry get the highest return.
Our mission is to give you all the tools you need to improve your grant making. To make smarter funding decisions faster. And to help you understand and communicate your impact so that you can delight your donors and accelerate your mission.
A complete Grants Management platform to simplify and accelerate your funding efforts.
A Search and Discovery tool to see and understand the impact of your programs.
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Altum is proud to work with excellent clients and a group of wonderful partners. It’s our privilege to help organizations achieve their missions so that they can make an even larger positive impact on the world.
The largest independent grant making platform in the world. Connecting hundreds of funding organizations with over 600,000 researchers.