1. orcid.orgContact Info: p. +1-301-922-9062 a. 10411 Motor City Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA
Identification of Early Career
Researchers:
How Universities and Funding Organizations are Using
ORCID
23 April 2014
Webinar
2. Today’s Agenda
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• Welcome, introductions, and brief introduction to
ORCID
Rebecca Bryant, ORCID
• The adoption of ORCID identifiers by funding
organizations
Walter Schaffer, NIH
• Challenges and benefits of using ORCID for early
career researchers and research organizations
Melanie Sinche, Harvard University
• Encouraging the adoption and use of ORCID iDs
by graduate students and postdocs
Gail Clement, Texas A&M University
• Q&A
3. Introduction to ORCID
Rebecca Bryant, PhD
Director of Community, ORCID
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2753-
3881
r.bryant@orcid.org
@ORCID_ORG
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4. Why we need a persistent
identifier
J. Å. S. Sørensen
J. Aa. S. Sørensen
J. Åge S. Sørensen
J. Aage S. Sørensen
J. Åge Smærup
Sørensen
J. Aage Smaerup
Sørensen
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http://ands.org.au/newsletters/share_issue18.pdf
• Common names
• Multiple names/transliterations
• Name changes, esp. for women
5. What is ORCID ?
The ORCID
• Unique, persistent
identifier for researchers
& scholars
• Free to researchers
• Can be used throughout
one’s career, across
professional activities,
disciplines, nations &
languages
• Embedded into
workflows & metadata
• API enables
interoperability between
siloed systems
The ORCID Organization
• Non-profit, non-
proprietary, open, and
community-driven
• Global, interdisciplinary
• Supported by the
membership of
organizations using the
ORCID API
Funding organizations
Professional societies
Universities & research
institutes
Publishers
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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2753-3881
6. Facilitating interoperable
exchange of information
The ORCID API
enables the
exchange of
information
between systems:
• Less time re-
keying
• Improved data
• Easier
maintenance
• Better sharing
across systems
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Grants
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2753-3881
Repositories
Researche
r
Information
Systems
Publishers
Other
identifiersSociety
membership
7. Adoption and Integration
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ORCID has issued over 650,000 iDs
since our launch in October 2012.
Integration and use is international.
Publishing
27%
Universities
& Research
Orgs
39%
Funders
7%
Association
s
15%
Repositorie
s & Profile
Sys
12%
EMEA
35%
America
s
50%
AsiaPac
15%
Over 120 members, from
every sector of the
international research
community
-
100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
500,000
600,000
700,000
Creator
Website
Trusted Party
8. ORCID Members & Integrators
http://orcid.org/organizations/integrators/current 8
Research
Funders
Professional
Associations
Publishers
Universities
& Research
Orgs
“AGU is implementing ORCIDs
in our member
records, editorial
databases, and papers. Having
the ability to uniquely identify
scientists helps the
society, editors, authors, and
members in many ways, from
improving efficiency to
providing services and
support.”
Brooks Hanson, Dir
Publications, American
Geophysical Union
“We want to use ORCIDs to
simplify the life of Oxford’s
researchers for working with
institutional systems and
publishers’ systems by re-using
already available information for
publication data management and
reporting. The motto is: Input
once – re-use often.”
Wolfram Horstmann, Assoc.
Director, Bodleian Libraries,
University of Oxford
“Greater precision and
transparency of the
research outputs linked to
a particular funder or
grant is vital to help us
better understand the
impact of our funding.”
Liz Allen, Head of
Evaluation, Wellcome
Trust
“Not only does the ORCID
system enable improved
publishing processes, but
publishers’ participation also
enables improved processes
for partners such as funding
agencies and universities.”
Craig Van Dyck, VP, Global
Content Management, Wiley
9. How can ORCID help
with outcomes tracking?
A persistent identifier benefits
researchers & organizations
• Distinguishes them from all
other researchers
• The unique ORCID identifier
stays with researchers
throughout their careers
• Connects them reliably with
their research outputs
• Improves discoverability of
their research
• Widespread embedding of
the ORCID identifier
improves information
sharing—offering us all better
data in the future
ORCID Public Data
“All data contributed to ORCID by
researchers or claimed by them will be
available in standard formats for free
download (subject to he researchers’
own privacy settings) that is uploaded
once a year and released under a CC0
waiver.”
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10. Encourage early career researchers
to get their ORCID iDs today!
Their ORCID iD will:
• Remain with them throughout their career, even as they
• Change names
• Move between institutions, nations, and disciplines
• Reliably link them with their research outputs
• Publications
• Datasets
• Funding
• Other outputs
• Encourage them to USE their iDs in
• Manuscript submission & grant proposals
• CVs, web pages, email signatures, & more
• Help ensure that they get credit for all of their work and improve
discoverability of their research
• ORCID identifiers are always free for researchers. Resources to support
outreach at
• http://orcid.org/content/orcid-ambassadors-1/outreachresources
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11. ORCID Membership
Member organizations may use the member API to:
• Send data such as publications to ORCID records
• Read limited access information from an ORCID record
• Integrate a search and link wizard to enable researchers
to connect with their works
• Link ORCID identifiers to other IDs and registry systems
• Create ORCID records on behalf of employees or
affiliates
• Validate information in ORCID records
They also receive:
• Access technical support in their use of the ORCID
registry
• Be eligible to serve on the ORCID Board
• Support the mission of ORCID and maintenance of the
Registry
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12. ORCID Membership
• Standard
One organization signs a member
agreement
• Consortial
One lead member organizes consortial
participants & technical support, all which
are listed in the lead agreement.
Payment is per participant, and multiple
categories are allowed w/n the
consortium. Consortia of 5 or < receive
10% discount.
• National
One lead member organizes recruitment
& tech support. Could include individual
NP universities, government institutions,
and other non-profit research-conducting
organizations.
• Complete information about membership
available at http://orcid.org/about/membership
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Non-profit
organizations
receive a 20%
discount
13. ORCID Membership (standard)
Basic (US$5000/year)
• Access to OAuth
Member API
• Option for either
trusted party or
creator license
• Support for 1 set of
client credentials
• Email support
• Biannual data file
• May nominate for
ORCID board
Premium (US$10,000-
$25,000/year, depending on
revenue)
• All benefits of Basic
membership
• Webhooks automated
update services for
synchronizing between
ORCID & your data system
• More API requests/day
• Up to 5 API client
credentials, to support more
systems
• Monthly data files &
expanded support services
• Custom reports on site
traffic, registrations, and
more 13
14. Resources
• Find out more at http://orcid.org
• Integrations at other institutions
• Use case examples
– http://orcid.org/organizations/institutions/usecases
• Record creation guide
– http://bit.ly/1gPloRC
• ORCID Ambassadors
– http://orcid.org/content/orcid-ambassadors-1
• Membership information
– http://orcid.org/about/membership
• Learn about tools to embed ORCID iDs at
http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/
• Blog: http://orcid.org/about/news
• Twitter: @ORCID_Org
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15. Outreach
Meetings
• Join us May 21-22 in Chicago for our Spring
meeting: https://orcid.org/events/Chicago2014
• University and professional association
integration prototypes, supported by Sloan-
funded Adoption and Integration program
• faculty information systems
• ETD systems
• data repositories
• access management workflows
• association management workflows
• SAVE THE DATE: 4 November 2014 in Tokyo
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Hinweis der Redaktion
Previous experience at University of Illinois as assistant dean overseeing professional development, thesis deposit, and academic policy for 10,000 graduate students and postdoctoral affairs for about 600 postdocs.
Why people? Because names are not enough to be able to distinguish whether it is one person or many who made a set of contributions. This issue of ambiguity arises from names shared by many people, changing names during a career, or variations of a name that appear due to transliteration, expression in multiple character sets, or cultural preferences in how a name is used. We cannot use names to distinguish one person from another, to accurately discover work, acknowledge contributions, or measure impact. ORCID is a community-based initiative focused on solving the problem of name ambiguity by providing an open registry for researchers and scholars to obtain a unique and persistent identifier.
Encourage you to go to our integrators page to learn more about what our members are doing!
You’re probably watching this webinar because you have some interest in the outcomes tracking of graduate students or postdocs. The main role that ORCID can play in outcomes tracking is disambiguation. We might actually have the data we want, but we can’t have confidence in it, because we can distinguish one John Smith from another. Or what about this female researcher who changed her name? ORCID is a standard that is used between systems, helping all of us to have confidence about our information.Secondly, organizations and researchers can get access to ORCID information. Member organizations receive regular reports. But in addition, ORCID is non-profit, open, and community-driven organization. We also release a public data file of all data contributed or claimed by researchers. This is all of the information about affiliations, publications, and more—that researchers have agreed to make publicly available.
I want to enlist your help in encouraging early career researchers to claim their ORCID identifiers. While we are talking today about the benefits to organizations—and how ORCID can help us with outcomes tracking, our first goal is to help improve systems for researchers. The people who will receive the greatest benefits—and conveniences—are researchers who claim their ORCID iDs, and use them, from early in their careers—at the point that they begin producing knowledge. For most researchers, this is in graduate school. In some cases, they may be undergraduates. Their ORCID iD is a part of their scholarly identity. They should claim their iDs and use them—when they submit manuscripts, publish a dataset, or submit a grant application. We also encourage them to display it in their email signatures, CVs, and elsewhere. ORCID iDs are always free for researchers, and it takes about 30 seconds for a researcher to claim their ORCID identifier. And as you’ll hear from Gail Clement, institutions can also use the API to encourage ORCID adoption by creating ORCID identifiers for their researchers—including graduate students, postdocs, and faculty.
Many of you may be interested ORCID membership and what it offers. Organizations must become members in order to use the Member API, which offers them the ability to share information between systems.