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Connecting Research and ResearchersAn Introduction to ORCID

Ed Pentz, Exective Director, CrossRefChair, ORCID Board of Directors

epentz@crossref.orghttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5993-8592

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Courtesy of Herbert van de SompelTowards a Machine-Actionable Scholarly Communication System http://www.slideshare.net/hvdsomp/towards-a-machineactionable-scholarly-communication-system

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The research community has lacked the ability to link researchers and scholars with their professional activities.

What is the problem?

• Discoverability within and across databases• Author, grantee, and faculty record management• Member and meeting management• Reviewer selection• Interoperability between research info systems

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ORCID is an international, interdisciplinary, open, not-for-profit, community-driven organization. We collaborate with researchers and organizations across the research community.

Our core mission is to provide an open registry of persistent unique identifiers for researchers and scholars AND to automate linkages to research works by embedding identifiers in research workflows.

ORCID Mission

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Benefits to the community

Unique and persistent iD can be used throughout career across professional activities and affiliations

ORCID iD is embedded in works metadata, independent of platform or type of work

Improved system interoperability – across discipline, organization, and country• Reduces reporting workload for

researchers• Supports tracking and reporting • Automates repository deposition

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The ORCID Registry

Other IDs• ResearcherID• Scopus• SSRN• ArXiv

Research Information Systems (CRIS)• Research Institutions• Funders• Governments

ORCID Account• Account Settings• Manage Permissions

ORCID Record• Biography• Research

Activities

Workflows• Manuscript submission• Grant applications• Dataset deposition• Member and meeting management• Patent applications

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ORCID Privacy

• Information in an ORCID Record has a privacy setting, which can be set by the account owner or proxy.

• Duplicate check uses name and email information

PUBLIC

LIMITED

PRIVATE

Accessible by anyone

Accessible by Account Owner, Trusted Organization(s)

Accessible by Account Owner, Proxy(ies)

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• Get a user’s ORCID iD• Get data from an ORCID Record• Let a user import from your system to

their ORCID Record• Enable the user to display on their

ORCID record a link to themself on your system

• Create ORCID iDs for employees and associates

Integration Flows

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For benefits to be realized…

•Researchers must see the benefit of creating ORCID iDs AND must create or claim an ORCID Account

•Research information processes and systems must adopt ORCID as a standard person identifier AND embed ORCID iDs AND link back with the ORCID Registry

•Research community must support the ORCID mission by becoming a member

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Growth since launch

ORCID has issued 173,327 identifiers since our launch in October 2012. Registrations arise from direct log-in at orcid.org/register and from integration into journal manuscript submission systems. This summer, integrations into university systems and grant application systems will be new sources for ORCID registrations.

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Registry use is international

• 13 countries >10,000 visitors

• 56 countries >1,000 visitors

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Country Visits %

United States 105688 17.3%China 44697 7.3%

UK 41206 6.7%Spain 32936 5.4%Italy 29174 4.8%

Brazil 27229 4.5%India 27217 4.4%

Germany 24247 4.0%Japan 21192 3.5%

Australia 20781 3.4%France 17147 2.8%Canada 13957 2.3%Russia 10494 1.7%

Sweden 9936 1.6%Egypt 9899 1.6%

Portugal 9662 1.6%Netherlands 8954 1.5%

Iran 8467 1.4%Malaysia 8426 1.4%

South Korea 8093 1.3%Turkey 7873 1.3%Taiwan 7510 1.2%Poland 6288 1.0%

Switzerland 6211 1.0%

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ORCID has 60 members, from a broad cross-section of the international research community

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•Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award to support implementation of ORCID identifiers by universities and professional associations•Up to 10 awards, $10-15K each•In-person policy and technical support•Development and dissemination of use cases and code samples

•More at http://orcid.org/blog/2013/06/13/orcid-awarded-grant-alfred-p-sloan-foundation-support-university-and-professional

Integration Support

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Interoperable Infrastructure

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•ORCID is a partner on the ODIN project, funded by the European Commission FP7•Other partners are CERN, British Library, DatCite, Dryad, arXIV, and ANDS•Goal is to leverage ORCID and DataCite to connect information across multiple services and infrastructures for scholarly communication

Dryad Plans

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Dryad Plans

Todd Vision/Laure Haak: OAI8, Geneva

http://www.slideshare.net/ORCIDSlides/orcid-oai8-20130618

Embedding of ORCID iDs

Manuscript submission Grant applications University CRIS systems Linkage with repositories Linkage with other IDs

Exploring integration in association membership and conference systems. ORCID has been proposed as a component of FIM and COI systems.

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“Nature journals authors can link their ORCID to their account in our manuscript submission and tracking system, and we[are now] publishing authors’ ORCIDs in papers.”

Manuscript submission

ORCID iDs are being received by CrossRef and PubMedDiehl LA, Souza RM, Alves JB, Gordan PA, Esteves RZ, Jorge ML, Coelho IC.

InsuOnline, a Serious Game to Teach Insulin Therapy to Primary Care Physicians: Design of the Game and a Randomized Controlled Trial for Educational Validation. JMIR Res Protoc. 2013 Jan 21;2(1):e5. doi: 10.2196/resprot.2431. PubMed PMID: 23612462, AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9958-7213

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Grant applications

Import information from ORCID record

Link grant application to ORCID

identifier

NIH ScienCV to pilot use of ORCID iDs this summer

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Grant applications

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DOE/OSTI has modified the E-Link processing system and Announcement Notices (AN) to include ORCID iDs. The ORCID number will become part of the author information available to users for search and retrieval in DOE databases such as SciTech Connect., and will be associated with products managed by OSTI such as Science.gov, World Wide Science.org, and the ETDEWEB.

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Personnel system integration

Add ORCID iD to university HR system

System will provide ORCID-HUID pairs for use in Harvard applications, such as DASH open access repository

http://library.harvard.edu/harvard-adopt-service-uniquely-identify-academic-authors

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Import publications from ORCID Record

Link between profile and ORCID iD

CRIS system integration

Linking with data repositories

Import works metadata from DataCite

http://odin-project.eu/2013/05/13/new-orcid-integrated-data-citation-tool/

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External IDs

Create an ORCID iD or associate

existing ORCID iD with

ResearcherID

Exchange profile and/or

publication data between ORCID

and ResearcherID

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National adoption: UK

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchmanagement/researchinformation/orcid.aspx

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Available free to the community: registry (orcid.org), open source code (github.com/ORCID/ORCID-Source/wiki), sandbox for testing APIs (support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/166623-about-the-orcid-sandbox), Public API, documentation (support.orcid.org/knowledgebase), annual public data file (orcid.org/content/orcid-public-data-file), participation in Steering and Working Groups (orcid.org/about/community), iDEAS forum

Available to ORCID Members: Member API, OAuth token to support authentication, ability to serve as trusted party and read limited access data and write to/create records, biannual data files. Premium members get additional benefits including monthly usage reporting, monthly data files, webhooks, and higher bandwith access.

Membership

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Standard: One organization joins. Option for basic or premium benefit levels. Discount for non-profits.

Consortium or Service Provider: One lead organization coordinates membership and technical implementation with group participants. Fee based on number of organizations in the group and benefit level. Discount for groups of 5 or more.

Nation: One lead organization coordinates membership and technical implementation with group participants. Fee based on national GDP.

How to join

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More Information• http://www.orcid.org/

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