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VeriMe is a membership cooperative dedicated to researcher identity verification. Worldwide.

We provide researchers digital identity verification services that enable verified access to research systems, facilities, and workflows without exposing personal data.

What We Do

At its core, VeriMe helps you verify your identity once and re-use everywhere — confirming your identity and credentials across research workflows without the repetitive forms or delays. It’s like having a trusted colleague vouching that your digital identity really belongs to you, without needing to share your sensitive information with everyone!”

  • VeriMe is a global digital identity and personhood verification service for researchers.

  • VeriMe can be directly integrated into existing systems for access to research data and resources, increasing integrity and trust in digital scholarship and research.

  • VeriMe eliminates the need for research systems, universities, and governments to collect and store sensitive personal identifiable information (PII) while also providing assurance that system access is limited to identity-verified users.

  • Researchers manage the sharing of their verified digital identity, can earn vouchers for their research service activity, and as cooperative Members may take a role in VeriMe governance. 

Verification isn’t about control — it’s about confidence, fairness, and connection.

VeriMe provides a common, researcher-driven solution that protects integrity while simplifying participation.

HOW VERIME WORKS

VeriMe Researcher Services

  • Account icon

    Create your Account

    In a few steps, create, link, and secure your VeriMe account.

  • Verification icon

    Verify your Identity

    Join the cooperative and verify your identity and personhood

  • Key Icon

    Share your Verifications

    Use your account to access research tools, services, and resources.

VeriMe Subscriber Services

VeriMe provides cost-effective services for identity verification, on a global scale.  VeriMe eliminates the need for research systems, universities, and governments to collect and store sensitive personal information (PII) while also providing assurance that system access is limited to identity-verified users.  

We provide reliable infrastructure that is informed by over 30 years of experience building and maintaining high-availability, secure digital platforms with privacy-first practices

We are committed to earning your trust through community governance, our transparent business model, and sustainable operations practices.

SUBSCRIPTIONS

Ready to HELP Build?

  • Are you a researcher who is excited to see VeriMe launch? Let us know!

  • Are you an organization interested in partnering with us on workflow integrations? We invite you to participate in our Partner Program!

  • Are you a funder with resources to help bring VeriMe to launch? We’d love to hear from you!

  • Are you interested in joining the team? Get in touch!

Our Commitment to Open

  • Who We Serve

    VeriMe is an important open science tool that enables researcher mobility and broad participation. Our primary stakeholders are researchers.

  • Our Governance

    VeriMe is organized as a cooperative governed by its members and community stakeholders. Members can access proof-of-personhood verification services, manage account sharing settings, all while maintaining PII privacy.

  • Our Business Model

    We are an open research infrastructure supported by our Members and parties that integrate our API into research workflows. As a cooperative our earnings are redistributed to our Members and reinvested in our platform.

  • Our Technology

    We leverage proven and open source technology as VeriMe's foundation, and in kind, make our work available under an Apache 2.0 license.

Support for VeriMe

  • "VeriMe is working on a problem that needs fixing."

    Martijn Roelandse, Park56

  • “This kind of identity service will be really valuable for researcher-serving platforms aiming for decentralization and cooperative governance“

    - Ronen Tamari, Cosmik

  • "We see this as a practical and important step towards safeguarding research integrity and research security, and building people's trust in research

    Dr. Daniel Hook, CEO, Digital Science

  • “Dryad supports researchers to publish their datasets with minimal effort and a high degree of quality. We are excited to work with VeriMe to further enhance that experience, providing certainty about researcher identities while reducing effort and allowing researchers to retain control over personal information."

    Ryan Scherle, Head of Platform Development, Dryad

  • “Identity verification is essential to establishing trust in the research data ecosystem, particularly when sensitive data are involved. Today, this remains a perennial headache for researchers and data administrators alike, with inconsistencies across identity providers and no robust solution for the common case of researchers moving between institutions. At Redivis, we’re incredibly excited for the potential of VeriMe to break down barriers in secure data sharing and help us collectively advance the research enterprise.”

    Ian Mathews, Co-Founder and CEO, Redivis

  • “Publishers are increasingly recognising the need for author verification to ensure a trustworthy scholarly record. With recent cases of fake authorship, it’s essential that researchers can protect their identities and reputations. We’re excited to partner with VeriMe to enable author verification seamlessly within publisher and researcher workflows.”

    Elliot Lumb, Co-Founder, Signals