Panel presentation at the 2016 ORCID South Africa workshop (19 July 2016)

1. Applications and use cases of ORCiD
integrations:
A scholarly publisher’s view
2016 ORCiD South Africa Workshop
Pretoria 19 July 2016
Andrew Joseph – Digital Publisher

2. Wits University Press?
• Humanities and Social Sciences book publisher
• 20 to 25 titles a year
• Web of Science inclusion
• Full frontlist digital production
• Consortial and individual sales
• Members of ORCiD
• 5 members of staff
• No submission or production systems

3. What does a scholarly publisher do anyway?
• University Press vs Commercial Publisher
• Mission based publishing:
Peer-review, production, dissemination
• Dissemination and Discoverability

4. South African scholarly publishing
• Largely traditional print based
• Limited or no digital presence – usually on commercial
retailers
• Reliance on international publishing partners
• Measuring value – Profit and Usage
• No submission or production systems

5. Partner or competitor?
• Department of Higher Education and Training
• Universities
• Funders
• University Rankings
• Libraries
• Commercial publishers

6. (Source: Wischenbart Global Ranking of Publishers 2016)

7. What are the issues?
• FOMO bias
• HSS / STM
• Journals / Books
• ‘Scienticisation’ and ‘metricising’
• North vs South: output and measures
• Currency fluctuation and mergers/acquisitions

8. What needs to be done?
• Competition vs collaboration
• Active and critical engagement
• Institutional relationships - cyclical
• Local IS international

9. Why we’re using ORCiD
• To enhance dissemination and reach of our books
• To connect to institutions and funders value of
accurate records
• To provide a service to our authors
• To validate our publications on public records
• To validate the efforts of reviewers through Publon
• To contribute to a public database of researchers

10. • Embed ORCiDs in our digital books and XML – not direct
API
• ORCiDs requested at contract submission - currently
• Included in our metadata – currently
• Documenting publication details on author ORCiD
records
• Depositing metadata with Crossref – includes ORCiD
How Wits University Press uses ORCiDs

11. What we’re not doing
• Using ORCiD from submission
• No direct link via ORCiD’s API – manual entry
• No production systems
• Metadata

12. • Not a panacea
• Won’t address all concerns about HSS books especially
monographs
• ORCiD in print
• Backlist titles
• Supplement / augment other identifiers
We think ORCiD doesn’t… but it could…

13. • Cambridge University Press, Springer Nature, Editeur,
California Digital Library, University of Minnesota Press, Wits
University Press
• Aims:
• Guide to best practices for integrating ORCiD into workflows
• Direct API use for small publishers
• Integration with Publon
• Best practice for funders
• Involve non-Anglophone publishers and researchers
Working Group on ORCiD Integration for Books

14. Andrew Joseph
Digital Publisher
Wits University Press
Andrew.Joseph@wits.ac.za