Video of this presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWGk4dt8Edk&list=PLybpVL27qHff3BVHuNXqYsqTs2e98_MpT&index=1 A significant development over the past couple of years has been the increase in collaboration between entities that support the scholarly publishing enterprise—creating efficiency and fueling innovation. We’ll begin the day with the example of ORCID, showing how collaboration can expand from a single idea and make connections that benefit many, and what this might mean for the future. We’ll follow this with an expedition into open source solutions in knowledge production that build collaboration, and we’ll hear about a project that helps institutions create connected data regarding their scholarship by using open standards.

1. Symbiosis—Is Collaboration the
New Innovation?
Alice Meadows, Director – Community Engagement & Support
orcid.org/0000-0003-2161-3781 @alicejmeadows
Allen Press Emerging Trends Seminar, Washington DC, April 21, 2016

2. Publishing collaborations
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Names are messy!

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Of the more than 6 million authors in a major journal citations
and abstracts database,+2/3 share last name and single initial
with another author. An ambiguous name in the same database
refers on average to 8 people.
http://ands.org.au/newsletters/share_issue18.pdf
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5. Uniquely identifying contributors
“The ability to uniquely identify contributors
is a deceptively simple concept which, if
realised, could enable forms of real-time
understanding of scientific research that up
to now have been extremely costly (if not
impossible).”
--Jonathan Kram, Wellcome Trust
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Our vision
ORCID’s vision is a world where
all those involved in research,
scholarship, and innovation are
uniquely identified
and connected to their contributions
across time, disciplines, and borders.

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Persistent digital identifiers to distinguish
researchers from each other
Member-built integrations for automated links
between researchers and their activities/affiliations
A hub for machine-readable connections between
identifiers for organizations, funding, outputs, and
people
ORCID
provides
✔ Plumbing for research information
✔ Tools to build trust in digital information

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ORCID facts and figures
• 2.15m+ live ORCID iDs
• Associated with ~5.9m DOIs
• 430k+ linked to one or more works
• 465k+ linked to one or more employment
• 500k+ linked to one or more education
• ~500 organizational members
• Five national consortia, three regional
• 65% research institutions, 20% publishers & associations
• 50%+ Europe, 30% North America
• ~250 integrations

9. Built on collaboration (1)
Founded by organizations from across
scholarly communications:
• Associations
• Funders (Wellcome)
• Publishers (Elsevier, Nature, Wiley)
• Repositories
• Research institutions
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10. Built on collaboration (2)
Community-driven and led:
• Board, working groups, API User Group
• Engagement and outreach activities
• Open resources to encourage sharing and
re-use
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ORCID collaborates with other organizations to
ensure adoption and use of research
information standards, including persistent
identifiers, and enable interoperability
Built on collaboration (3)

12. Built on collaboration (4)
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 achieve ORCID’s vision through a community
approach
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13. Collect & Connect
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Collect Display
ConnectSynch
Authenticate!

14. Collect & Connect for Publisher
• Request/require ORCID iDs for authors
• Collect ORCID iDs via the ORCID API (authenticated ORCID iDs),
so that researchers are not asked to manually type in or search for
their iD
• Display – embed ORCID iDs into article metadata; publish in online
versions, and ideally in print versions of the publication
• Connect/synchronize - include ORCID iDs in Crossref metadata, so
that Auto-update can be implemented including verification that the
iD was authenticated
You can also implement ORCID for editors and reviewers
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• ORCID publishers’ open letter
 AGU (Mar 2016)
 eLife (Jan 2016)
 EMBO (Feb 2016)
 Hindawi
 IEEE
 PLOS
 Science (Mar 2016)
 The Royal Society (Jan 2016)
 + nine more since launch including JMIR
& ScienceOpen which required ORCID iDs
starting 2014
Collaboration in practice (1)

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Collaboration in practice (2)
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

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Collaboration in practice (3)
PEER REVIEW: recognition for peer review service
 Community group developed new standard citation
(CASRAI)
 ORCID early adopters:
 Live: F1000, AGU/eJournal Press, Publons
 In progress: Aries
Systems, Peerage of Science
https://members.orcid.org/
api/peer-review-getting-started
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Collaboration in practice (4)
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20. opportunities
• Organization IDs
• Consultations
• Industry best practices
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