Imperial College ORCID project

UK ORCID members meeting and launch of Jisc consortium

Imperial College London, 28th September 2015

Dr Torsten Reimer

Scholarly Communications Officer

Imperial College London

t.reimer@imperial.ac.uk / @torstenreimer

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8357-9422

Why ORCID? REF Open Access Example

Author links ORCID with

CRIS

…shares ORCID iD with publisher

…shares funder information with

publisher

Publisher mints DOI on

acceptance

…shares iD and funder details with CrossRef

CRIS pulls data from CrossRef, using ORCID iD

Jisc ‘Router’

manuscript

Link via iD

Imperial ORCID Project

• Internal project approved in early 2014 by Provost’s Board

• Imperial joined Jisc-ARMA-ORCID pilot

Project aims:

• Raise awareness of ORCID

• Encourage uptake of ORCID

• Issue researchers with an iD

Approach:

1. Communications campaign (Nov-Dec ‘14)

2. Capture existing iDs in Symplectic Elements

3. Offer an opt-out

4. Create iDs via API

5. Pre-populate profiles, but leave academics to decide what is public

6. Encourage academics to link iD to Symplectic Elements

ORCID Project in Numbers

Overall number of staff included initially 4,347

Staff excluded (those not listed in public staff directory) 332

Staff opting out 25

Existing iDs added to Symplectic 439

Existing iDs identified through ORCID de-duplication 325

New staff iDs created 3,226

Publications added to ORCID registry >240.000

Staff iDs linked to Symplectic (as of 19/01/15) 1,155

Requests for iD deletion (e.g. missed by de-duplication) 7

Project report: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk:8443/handle/10044/1/19271

Recommendations and Current/Next Steps

• Focus on useful and used iDs, not iDs created

• Academic interest: 1,155 iDs manually linked back to College within7 weeks (incl. Christmas break), despite (currently) limited benefits

• Privacy did not prove to be a major concern – engage proactively

• Clear communications and strong support across the university,including senior management, are critical

If we did it again…

…we would use ORCID’s create on demand approach

Current/Next steps:

• Continue awareness raising campaign, increase uptake

• Add ORCID support to Spiral (repository) and Personal Web Pages

• Work with partners to improve ORCID integrations and uptake (today!!)

iDs registered now (~700 staff joined/left College since iD creation): 1,400

“I am strongly supportive of this initiative.”

James Stirling, Imperial College Provost