1. Start Here
orcid.orgContact Info: p. +1-301-922-9062 a. 10411 Motor City Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA
Spreading the ORCID word
Alice Meadows, Director – Community Engagement & Support
Communications webinar, March 1, 2016
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ORCID’s vision is a world where
all researchers are uniquely
identified
and connected to their
contributions
across time, disciplines, and
borders.
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We work with the research
community to make the systems
researchers use - and the Internet
overall - work better for everyone
in scholarly communications.
6. Collect & Connect
• Clarify goals and expectations across
sectors
• Standardize and improve the user
experience
• Improve trust in connections between
ORCID and other identifiers
• Increase efficiency and quality of
integrations
• Help ensure ORCID sustainability through
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7. Why ORCID for researchers
1. Their lifelong digital name
2. Free to register, easy to use
3. “Enter once, reuse often”
4. Embedded in the systems they use
5. Researcher controlled
6. Enables discoverability and recognition
7. Increasingly being required by funders and
publishers
ORCID is researcher-centered
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1. Lifelong digital name
• Accents and other characters
• Name changes
• Multiple family names
• Shared names
• Different versions
• Transliteration
11. 2. Free to register, easy to
use
• Less than one minute to register
• One version of name, email, and
password
• Easy to connect works and affiliations
• Search & Link functionality for works
• 40k organizational identifiers
• UberResearch grant information
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3. “Enter once, reuse often” eg Auto-
Update
ORCID Record
publisher
university
libraries
funders
submit
manuscri
pt
ACCEPTED!
Include in
metadata
obtain
DOI
notify
preprint
library
auto-
update
ORCID
NEW
INFO!
faculty
profiles
inform grant
outputs
update
profiles
13. 4. Embedded in systems they use
• Manuscript submission systems (55%)
• Editorial Manager, eJournal Press,
ScholarOne and more
• Funder/grant submission systems
(26%)
• 14 members, 9 integrations, 4 enabling
platforms
• Institutional systems (14%)
• CRIS systems (Converis, Pure,
Symplectic)
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14. 5. Researcher-controlled
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University
Library
Funde
rs
Faculty Profiles
Researcher
Publishers
• Create, edit, and maintain free ORCID record
• Give explicit permissions for services to use iD
• Control privacy settings, and read/write access
• Change settings and access privileges at any time
16. 7. Increasingly required
• 8+ funder mandates (67% support)
• 15 signatories to publisher open letter
(75% support)
72% agreed/strongly agreed that
requiring ORCID would be good for the
global research community
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ORCID facts and figures
• ~2m registrants
• 450+ organizational members
• 65% research institutions
• 55% Europe, 30% N America
• Four national consortia, three US consortia
• >225 live integrations
https://orcid.org/statistics
19. Ideas for spreading the wor
• Identify/work with champions
• Pilot with small groups first
• Top down AND bottom up approach
• Regular updates and reminders
• Keep messaging relevant
• Use straightforward language
• Create collateral (and/or use ours)
Ask us for help!
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Identifiers enable digital connections between people places and things, information that is persistent and uniquely identifiable, machine readable, accessible, and embedding identifiers in workflows make it immediately possible to ascertain HOW the connection was made, by whom, and when
Identifiers enable digital connections between people places and things, information that is persistent and uniquely identifiable, machine readable, accessible, and embedding identifiers in workflows make it immediately possible to ascertain HOW the connection was made, by whom, and when
ORCID provides PIDs for people
ORCID was formed to address the problem of name ambiguity in scholarly communications.