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ORCID: What, Who, Why, How?
UK ORCID Members’ MeetingSeptember 28, 2015
Alice MeadowsDirector of Communications
[email protected]://orcid.org/0000-0003-2161-3781
#alicejmeadows
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What is
ORCID?
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ORCID disambiguates names
• Shared names
• Different versions (full name vs. initials)
• Transliteration
• Accents and other ALT characters
• Name changes
• Multiple family names
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One researcher may have many
profiles or identifiers
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ORCID is a registry
• Free, non-proprietary registry of persistent unique open identifiers for researchers
• Community-led initiative supported by member fees
• Open data, software, APIs, and documentation
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Repositories
Funders
Higher Educatio
n and Employer
sProfession
al Association
s
Other person
identifiers
Publishers
ORCID is a hub
ISNI
Researcher ID
Scopus Author ID
Internal identifiers
FundRefID
GrantID
ISNI
Ringgold ID
Member ID
Abstract ID
DOI
URI
Thesis ID
DOI
ISBNWith other identifiers, ORCID enables machine-readable connections with:
• works• organizations• person IDs
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• ORCID is an interdisciplinary effort
• We have an international scope
• ORCID provides foundational
services that improve scholarly
communications for all
researchers
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Who uses
ORCID?
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Researchers
• 1.65m live ORCID iDs
• Associated with 4.3m+ DOIs
• 285k+ linked to works
• 341k+ linked to education
• 327k+ linked to employment
19% first heard about ORCID from their
institution
26% use their iD at their university7 October 2015 orcid.org 9
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Organizations
• 300+ organizations are members
• Three national consortia agreements
signed (Denmark, Italy, UK) with more in
progress
Australia in progress
• 145 members with live integrations
• 30+ more in development
75% of respondents agree/strongly agree
that integrating ORCID at their
organization would support better data
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Integration in research
systems
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Funder5%
Repository10%
Association7%
Publishing13%Research Org.
65%
Europe53%
Middle East & Africa2%
Asia8%
Pacific Rim6%
North America30%
South America1%
Members and integrations in
every region and sector of the
international research community
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Why
ORCID?
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“I want the Internet to work
better, and persistent
identifiers are the way to go”
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Researchers
• It’s free! And quick! (30 seconds to
register)
• Their ‘forever’ digital name
• Automated updates
• CrossRef and DataCite
• Enables recognition of their research
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• Interoperable across multiple systems
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Funders• Reduced grantee reporting burden
• Connections across programs
• Cross-organizational data visibility for
gap-overlap analysis
• Unambiguous tracking of grantee
research output and activities
• ORCID iDs for research staff
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Research organizations• Identify and track researchers and scholar
• Monitor and report on research output
(across multiple organizations)
• Automated updates for new research
activity
• Support OA compliance efforts
• Reduce reporting and admin burden for
faculty and staff
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How is
ORCID
being
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Researcher use cases
• Dissemination of research results (55%)
• At their institution (26%)
• Applying for grants (14%)
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Organization use cases
• Auto-update of local systems
• Research results reporting
• OA compliance
• Affiliation validation
• Tracking
grantees/authors/students/members
• And more…
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Updates at
orcid.org/about/news
Alice Meadows
[email protected] #alicejmeadows
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2161-3781
orcid.org #ORCID_Org
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