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ORCID: Connecting Research & Researchers 

Christian GutknechtSpecialist for information systems

Swiss National Science Foundation christian.gutknecht@snf.ch

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7265-1692

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What is ORCID?

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ORCID (“orkid”)= Open Researcher and Contributor ID

“ORCID is like a DOI for researchers.”

NOT:

What is ORCID ?

Multiple Names Variations

• J. Å. S. Sørensen

• J. Aa. S. Sørensen

• J. Å. S. Sorensen

• J. Aa. S. Sorensen

• J. Å. S. Soerensen

• J. Aa. S. Soerensen

• Jens Å. S. Sørensen

• Jens Aa. S. Sørensen

• Jens Å. S. Sorensen

• Jens Aa. S. Sorensen

• Jens Å. S. Soerensen

• Jens Aa. S. Soerensen

• J. Åge S. Sørensen

• J. Aage S. Sørensen

• J. Åge S. Sorensen

• J. Aage S. Sorensen

• J. Åge S. Soerensen

• J. Aage S. Soerensen

• Jens Åge S. Sørensen

• Jens Aage S. Sørensen

• Jens Åge S. Sorensen

• Jens Aage S. Sorensen

• Jens Åge S. Soerensen

• Jens Aage S. Soerensen

An illustrative example: Jens Åge Smærup Sørensen

• J. Åge Smærup Sørensen

• J. Aage Smaerup Sørensen

• J. Åge Smarup Sorensen

• J. Aage Smarup Sorensen

• J. Åge Smaerup Soerensen

• J. Aage Smaerup Soerensen

• Jens Åge Smærup Sørensen

• Jens Aage Smaerup Sørensen

• Jens Åge Smarup Sorensen

• Jens Aage Smarup Sorensen

• Jens Åge Smærup Soerensen

• Jens Aage Smaerup Soerensen

And on and on it goes …

Common Names

“Estimates by China's Ministry of Public Security suggest that more than 1.1 billion people — around 85% of China's population — share just 129 surnames. Problems with abbreviations, ordering of given names and surnames and inconsistent journal practices heighten the confusion.”http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080213/full/451766a.html

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Common Names

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And in Ireland:

How many people with the name Murphy, Kelly or O’Sullivan do you know?

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/the-10-most-popular-irish-last-names-98012749-237788291.html

Half of the population on the Korean peninsula share the three most common surnames (Kim, Lee, Park)

P. Ghosh: International Business Times online, 15th Nov. 2013

Spanish names:

Alejandro Rodríguez de la Peña y de YbarraWhat is first name and what are the surnames?

http://yuba.stanford.edu/~molinero/html/surname.html

Different writing systems

Name Changes

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Who is ORCID?

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Publishing27%

Universities & Research Orgs39%

Funders7%

Associations15%

Repositories & Profile Sys12%

EMEA35%

Americas50%

AsiaPac15%

Over 150 members, from every sector of the

international research community

Who is ORCID?

http://orcid.org/about/community/members

• Members

Who’s ORCID?

Board of Directors

10https://orcid.org/about/team

Who’s ORCID?

Staff

11https://orcid.org/about/team

Who’s ORCID?

Staff

12https://orcid.org/about/team

Who’s ORCID?

Ambassadors

13http://orcid.org/content/orcid-ambassadors

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ORCID Registration

• Take 30 seconds to register at https://orcid.org

• Free to researchers

• Individual controls privacy at the item level

Register for an

The ORCID

Sample ORCID record

Add education & employment history

Link to past works• Use the multiple

ORCID search and link wizards to connect your works to your ORCID record.

• Following linking, these records will appear in your ORCID record with no data entry by you

Link to past worksUsers can link to past works in a number of databases, including:

• Scopus• ResearcherID/

WOS• Uberresearch• Europe PubMed

Central• DataCite• figshare

Michael Ladisch, University College Dublin3rd Bibliometrics in Libraries meeting, York, UK, 4th July 2014

Manually add works

Some of your works may not be included in the search results to link.

You can add them to your ORCID record manually.

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ORCID has issued over 750,000 iDs since our launch in October

2012. Integration and use is

international.

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Adoption and Integration

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Using ORCID

ideaPeople

TeamCollaborations

Trainees

AffiliationsEmployer

Professional Associations

FundingGrants

ContractsSeed Funding

Coop Agreements

PublicationsJournal ArticlesBooksPatentsLegal BriefsAlgorithmsSoftware Code

DatasetsPhysical ObjectsElectronic FilesProtein StructuresGenetic SequencesImpactsPolicyLegalHealthEnvironmentEducationProduct DevelopmentSpin OffWorkforce

Service ActivitiesPeer Review

Working GroupsLeadership Positions

Training and Mentoring

Many different research outputs

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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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GrantsRepositories

Researcher

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Web of Science

ORCID & Bibliometrics

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Scopus

ORCID & Bibliometrics

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ImpactStory

ORCID & Bibliometrics

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• NIH• DOE, Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI)• FDA• Autism Speaks

• Wellcome Trust• National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) (UK)• Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) (Portugal)• Japan Science & Technology Agency (JST)• National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan• Swedish Research Foundation• Swiss National Science Foundation• Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)

ORCID & Funders

. . . in grant applications

Import information from ORCID record

Link grant application to

ORCID identifier Funding organizations like the Wellcome Trust and the U.S. Department of Energy are now requesting your ORCID iD during grant submission.

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ORCID & SNSF

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ORCID & SNSF

Works are discoverable—

and distinguishable from others—by iD, not just name

Publishers are now

requesting ORCID iDs in manuscript submission

Data then flows into

search tools like PubMed, Scopus, and

WOS

ORCID & Publishers

. . . in manuscript submission

Include your ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. Your ORCID iD is attached to your publication metadata, improving discoverability.

. . . in manuscript submission

Recognizing reviewer service

• Acknowledge Peer Reviewers

• Link Authors, Reviewers, Members, and Meeting Participants

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. . . in PubmedPubmedArticle> <MedlineCitation Owner="NLM" Status="In-Process"> <PMID Version="1">24592396</PMID> <DateCreated> <Year>2014</Year> <Month>03</Month> <Day>04</Day> </DateCreated> <Article PubModel="Print-Electronic"> <Journal> <ISSN IssnType="Electronic">2314-6141</ISSN> <JournalIssue CitedMedium="Internet"> <Volume>2014</Volume> <PubDate> <Year>2014</Year> </PubDate> </JournalIssue> <Title>BioMed research international</Title> <ISOAbbreviation>Biomed Res Int</ISOAbbreviation> </Journal> <ArticleTitle>Molecular approach for tracing dissemination routes of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 in bovine offal at slaughter.</ArticleTitle> <Pagination> <MedlinePgn>739139</MedlinePgn> </Pagination> <ELocationID EIdType="doi" ValidYN="Y">10.1155/2014/739139</ELocationID> <Abstract> <AbstractText>....</AbstractText> </Abstract> <AuthorList CompleteYN="Y"> <Author ValidYN="Y"> <LastName>Asakura</LastName> <ForeName>Hiroshi</ForeName> <Initials>H</Initials> <Identifier Source="ORCID">0000-0002-4890-037X</Identifier> <Affiliation>Division of Biomedical Food Research, National Institute of Health Sciences, Kamiyoga 1-18-1, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan.</Affiliation> </Author> <Author ValidYN="Y"> <LastName>Masuda</LastName> <ForeName>Kazuya</ForeName> <Initials>K</Initials> <Affiliation>Division of Biomedical Food Research, National Institute of Health Sciences, Kamiyoga 1-18-1, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan.</Affiliation> </Author>

. . . Link to your datasets

You can now link your ORCID iD with your data, enabling you to display your datasets in your ORCID profile.

How are Universities/Resear

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• Researcher Information Systems• Institutional Repositories• Electronic Theses & Dissertations

(ETDs)• Campus directories (LDAP)• Record creation for faculty and

students

Member institutionsU.S. Institutions

• Boston• Brown• Caltech• Carnegie Mellon• Cornell• Harvard• MIT• MSKCC• Notre Dame• NYU Langone Medical Center• Penn State• Purdue• Stony Brook• Texas A&M• University of Colorado• University of Kansas• University of Michigan• University of Missouri• University of Washington• University of Virginia

Worldwide• Cambridge• CERN• Chinese Academy of Sciences• European Bioinformatics

Institutes (EMBL-EBI)• Consorcio Madroño• Glasgow• Korea Institute of Science &

Technology Information (KISTI)• Oxford• Stockholm• University of Bern• University College London• University of Hong Kong• University of Sydney

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For more on university integrators see http://orcid.org/organizations/researchorganizat

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Sample integrations

Adoption & Integration Program (U.S.)• Repositories

• U Missouri/@mire—Dspace/Mospace • Notre Dame—Hydra Plug-in• Purdue—HUBzero • Reactome—integration into international

biological pathways knowledge center

• Professional Societies• SfN—membership management

• Researcher Information Systems• Boston University—Profiles• Cornell—VIVO

• Multi-faceted integrations• Texas A&M—Vireo ETD workflow, record

creation for grad students• U Colorado—FIS

Jisc-ARMA projects (UK)

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• Researcher Information Systems• Aston University—CRIS & HR• Imperial College—CRIS• University of York—CRIS, ePrints, enabling

tracking , outreach

• Institutional repositories & ETDs• University of Kent—ETDs, institutional

repository, outreach to early career researchers

• Southampton University—institution-wide roll out and ePrints integration

• Swansea University—institutional repository, CRIS, & HR; facilitating longitudinal tracking of post-graduate researchers (PGRs)

• Publishing• University of Oxford—linking to university

profiles, in collaboration with CUP• Northumbria University—scholarly

publications, streamlining apps & tracking

http://orcidpilot.jiscinvolve.org/wp/

. . . Repositories

. . . Repositories

. . . Repositories

Display so people can find you

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Organisational membership

ORCID MembershipMember organizations may use the member API to:• Read information from an ORCID record• Send data such as publications to ORCID records• 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

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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

… Open

• Public Data File:• Paglione, Laura, Robert Peters, Catalina Oyler,

Will Simpson, Angel Montenegro, José Francisco Ramírez Monge, Rebecca Bryant, Laurel Haak; (2013); ORCID Annual Public Data File, 2013; ORCID, Inc. http://dx.doi.org/10.14454/07243.2013.001

• Principles:• http://orcid.org/about/what-is-orcid/our-

principles

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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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Questions?

Thanks to Rebecca Bryant and Michael for slide templates and part of the content

Upcoming webinar on ORCID adoption by funders on 25 September 2014https://orcid.org/content/webinar-orcid-adoption-funding-organizations