ORCIDConnecting Research and

Researchers

Vicki Picasso, Senior Librarian Research SupportORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9422-5021

COI in Online Teaching, Learning and Research, 19th July, 2016

Introducing ORCID

• Raise awareness of ORCID• Influence you to register for an ORCID• Encourage you to use your ORCID

What is ORCID?• ORCID stands for Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier

• An ORCID is a 16 digit unique identifier

• It is a researcher ID that is increasingly being adopted around the world by publishers, research organisations and research funding bodies

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The Back Story• ORCID is an international, not-for-profit initiative (orcid.org)• Provides an open registry of persistent unique identifiers for

researchers • An ORCID is portable and will travel with the researcher throughout

their career, across organisations, institutions and countries• The aim of ORCID is to automate linkages to research objects such as

publications, grants, datasets, patents, and other IDs

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Who has an ORCID?The stats..

• 2.3 million ORCID IDs worldwide currently• 33,407 ORCID records associated with .au email addresses• 16,864 ORCID records which had public affiliations (education or employment)

with an Australian institution• 773 ORCIDs affiliated with UON 

@Feb-June 2016

What can ORCID do for me?• Connect a researcher to their research activity and outputs • Provide a unique and persistent author/researcher ID• As an ISBN is to a book, an ORCID is to a researcher• Helps you to claim ownership of your work• Assert statements about yourself based on your ORCID, i.e. linking

to, identifying with your ID• Name disambiguation – common and similar names• Over-time will save time and effort as organisations adopt

(integrate into their systems)

Of the more than 6 million authors in a major journal citations and abstracts database, more than two-thirds of them share a last name and single initial with another author.

http://ands.org.au/newsletters/share_issue18.pdf

Where Do I Use an ORCID?• Submitting articles to a

publisher• Grant submissions• Conference

presentations• Datasets• Equipment• Research systems

• Media stories• Websites, anywhere

where you have a public profile, i.e. blog

• CV• Email signatures

Benefits for Researchers1. Reliably and easily connects you with your

contributions and affiliations

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Benefits for Researchers2. Alleviates mistaken identity

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Benefits for Researchers3. Saves you time – “enter once, re-use often”

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Benefits for Researchers4. Improves recognition and

discoverability for you and your research outputs

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Benefits for Researchers5. Your lifelong digital name

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Benefits for Researchers6. You own and control your record, managing what

information is connected and how it is shared

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Benefits for Researchers7. Enables you to comply with organisations that require

ORCID iD

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Benefits for Researchers8. More and more systems you already use are connected

with ORCID

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Benefits for Researchers9. Free to register and use

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Benefits for Researchers10. Enables you to play your part in making the Internet

better for research!

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About Your ORCID Profile (orcid.org)• ORCID profile is managed at the ORCID website• You manage your profile • You can add information about yourself if you choose• Share as much or as little information as you’d like • You’re in control – you manage permissions and authorise who can

view and access the information on your ORCID record • Remembering that ORCID is portable through your career,

independent of employer, institution, name change

Your ORCID Profile (if you want)• Personal Information / about

you information• Email Address• Affiliations• Work/career history• Education and employment• Publications (add these

through some wizard tools) or manually

• Import your work

• Cross Ref Search• Europe PubMed Central• Research ID• Scopus to ORCID,• ANDS• Data Cite• Etc

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Why are we talking about ORCIDs?

• Haven’t we had example of author ids for a while? Scopus ID Researcher ID

• How is ORCID different?• ORCID is the plumbing providing connectors between a range of

research workflows and systems that researchers and universities use

• Adopted globally by researchers, publishers, funding bodies, research organisations and associations – including UON

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What do I need to do?

1. Register for an ORCID 2. Link your ORCID to your information and your outputs

• orcid.org • UON’s NURO publications system

3. Use it!

Create an ORCID today and reap the benefits tomorrow and into the future

NURO Auto Claiming

Scopus and Web of Science

ORCID @ UON• Information and Help with ORCID – the Library website• Help - today/now

• help you register• link your ORCID to NURO• answer questions

• Help in the future• Drop-in session, starting next week – Auchmuty Library, Lab L267• Friday : 29th July, 5th August, 12th August at @ 10 – 11 am• Drop-in sessions at Ourimbah (TBA)• Faculty Librarians• Research support staff (HERDC, NOVA)

Curious. Collaborative. Courageous