ORCID @ Sydney

Nathaniel Lewis, Director

Research Reporting, Analysis, Data and Systems

DVC-Research Portfolio

ORCID Roundtable PresentationTuesday 29th March 2014

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Engaging with ORCID

› Research, Library, ICT & ANDS

› Senior Executive Group – Research

› Joined ORCID as Institutional Member June 2014

› Now at planning stage of ORCID implementation across Sydney

› Integration with internal research information systems

- DSpace, IRMA, HR, ICT

The ORCID Opportunity

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Institutional Business Drivers

› Data quality, accuracy and consistency

› Persistent identifiers, minimise manual intervention

› Managing duplicates across systems

› Mapping affiliations, publication, grants, data, Open Access compliance

› Maximise research performance in reporting, compliance and rankings

Alignment to Research Strategy

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Fit to Services

› Currently considering policy frameworks, governance and implementation

› Creation of ORCID identifiers for all Sydney researchers

› Population & Maintenance of records

› Supplementing Scopus / Thompson publications sweeps

› Use ORCID to manage non–citation based disciplines

Policy, Procedures & Workflows

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Integration Challenges

› Minimise Researcher burden

› Constraints on ORCID record population policy

› Levering quality assured research information

- IRMA is populated with all research outputs

- IRMA used to populate

- Academic Profiles

- OA Publications Repository

- HERDC & ERA

- Data assurance processes & ORCID

Technical & Policy considerations

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Integration Challenges

› Capacity & Service Levels (Internal & External)

› Privacy, Location of Servers

› Integration into existing ICT & HR Systems

› Implementation at local faculty level, guidelines for use

Technical & Policy considerations

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Sector Issues

› Consistent approach for research outputs & records management

› Support for researcher mobility

› Identification of further research opportunities;

- Collaboration

- Strategic Recruitment

› Alignment to Scopus & Thompson databases

› Sustainability

- Support from publishers is key

ORCID into the Future

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Questions?

nathaniel.lewis@sydney.edu.au