The adoption of ORCID identifiers by funding

organizations

Walter (Wally) Schaffer, PhDSenior Scientific Advisor for

Extramural Research, U.S. National Institutes of Health

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2276-4656

123 April 2014

NIH - ACD Working Group on the Biomedical Research

Workforce

• Chaired by Shirley Tilghman (Princeton) and Sally Rockey (NIH)• Modeling Subcommittee chaired by Bruce

Weinberg (OSU) and Donna Ginther (KU)

• Charge• Develop a model for a sustainable and diverse

U.S. biomedical research workforce• Make recommendations to support a future

sustainable biomedical infrastructure.

Comprehensive NIH Tracking Options

• Extend Requirement for NIH eRA Commons Accounts

• Current Requirement• Students and Postdocs

On NRSA Since 1974 Comprehensive evaluation studies NRSA service payback Legally enforceable

• NIH Reform Act of 2006 Evaluate Postdocs (and students) as for NRSA Require Commons Account for Postdocs beginning in FY 2010

– http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not-od-09-140.html

• Extend to students on NIH projects• Capture in annual progress report• Implement for October 2014

Comprehensive NIH Tracking Options (cont.)

• NRSA Research Training Tables • Automate

• Build on NIEHS/FIC CareerTrac and NINDS Trainee Tracking System

• Share database with Program Directors • Prepopulate with existing eRA Commons and

Appointment data• Information available to reviewers• Information also available to analysts for tracking

and evaluation• Once built

Extend reporting period to 15 years Include all students and postdocs that participate in the

training program

Comprehensive NIH Tracking Options (cont.)

• Enhance SciENcv – Create on-line, structured biosketches• NLM/NCBI,

Eight Federal Agencies, Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP)

• Create auto-populated, CV-like data collection • Generate biosketches for Federal grants for any agency• Unambiguous, claimed links between researchers - their grants and – their

scientific output• Available as beta version • Substantial NIH update by the end of Spring• Eventually replace biosketch images• NSF added by October

SciENcv Beta Version, Introduced September 2013

Inputs

ORCIDeRA Commons

NCBI My Bibliography

Output

NIH & NSF Biosketch

Connecting your ORCID

Comprehensive NIH Tracking Options (cont.)

• Use Open Researcher and Contributor IDs (ORCID)• Some publishers & funders encourage or require ORCID IDs • Brisk adoption• Portal to ORCID within SciENcv• Users consume ORCID and associate ORCIDs with

publications and grants• Help identify individuals and their scientific contributions• Facilitate identification of individuals across systems (agency

to agency)

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2276-4656

Biosketch PDF export

Plans for SciENcv Enhancements

• Maintain Multiple NIH biosketches – clone from existing

• Describe scientific contributions

• Non-publication output – prepopulate RPPR-Section C

• Users pull data from external profile systems (e.g., VIVO)

• Variable levels of information exposure

• API transfer data to/from EndNote, Scopus, Linked In, etc.

• Allow delegates to enter data

• Additional output options

• Revised biosketch pilot

• Add NSF by October 2014