ORCID identifiers in repositories The ORCID identifier has been incorporated into numerous repository platforms. This session will offer a discussion of integration points, policy issues, data flow between systems, researcher participation, discovered opportunities, and demonstrations by universities, research organizations, and vendors. Moderator: Salvatore Mele, Head of Open Access at CERN Presenters: Robin Haw, Scientific Associate and Reactome Outreach Coordinator, Department of Informatics and Bio-computing, OICR Rick Johnson, Co-Program Director, Digital Library Initiatives and Scholarship E-Research and Digital Initiatives, Notre Dame University Ann Campion Riley, Associate Director for Access, Collections and Technical Services, University of Missouri Library Sarah Shreeves, Coordinator, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS), University Library. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Michael Witt, Head, Distributed Data Curation Center, Purdue University

1. Theses and Dissertations
and ORCIDs
Sarah L. Shreeves
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ORCID Outreach Meeting
May 21, 2014

2. Early career researchers
Copyright 2009 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In Fall 2012, there were at least 1.74 million students
enrolled in graduate programs in the US.
- 67,200 doctoral
degrees
- 540,200 master’s
degrees
From the Council of Graduate
Schools Survey of Graduate
Enrollment and Degrees from
2002-2012

3. Theses and dissertations
• 2013: NDLTD - 174,000 dissertations and
theses
• 2013: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses -
73,437 dissertations and Theses
• 2013: Illinois published 1259 dissertations
and theses (752 dissertations, 507 theses)

5. Electronic theses and dissertations
publication process
Variety of systems in use
for submission
Variety of systems in use
for publication

6. Discovery process
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7. Texas A&M University
- Integration of ORCIDs into Vireo
- Pass along ORCIDs to DSpace
- Push dissertations to ORCID record
Learn more from TAMU presenters today and tomorrow!

8. ORCIDS and Theses/Dissertations
Universities should mint ORCIDs for graduate students.
These should be included in the thesis and dissertation
submission process.
ORCIDs should be passed along to the publication
systems and onward to discovery systems.
Dissertations and theses should be passed to the
ORCID record.

9. Questions?
Sarah L. Shreeves
sshreeve@illinois.edu
@sshreeves