This document discusses how Texas A&M University Libraries uses VIVO to connect researchers across disciplines by including graduate scholarship like theses and dissertations. It describes how theses are pushed from VIREO, the university's thesis and dissertation repository, to both VIVO and ORCID to establish academic lineages and connections. By enhancing disciplinary family trees through works and their derivatives in VIVO, researchers can better trace the impact of ideas over time.

1. Access to Graduate Scholarship in
VIVO: Establishing Connections
and Tracing Academic Lineage
Michael Bolton, Gail Clement, Violeta Ilik*, Sandra Tucker
Texas A&M University Libraries
DLF - Austin, TX 2013

2. VIVO
VIVO discovery tool connects researchers across
disciplines, institutions, geography, and time.

3. VIVO – VIREO - ORCID
Texas A&M’s VIVO deployment - inclusion of graduate
scholarship: theses, dissertations, and publications derived
from those academic works.

4. VIREO
Theses pushed from VIREO to VIVO and ORCID

5. Disciplinary family trees
VIVO offers a promising method for enhancing disciplinary
family trees

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12. Dr. Grigorchuk’s VIVO profile

13. Dr. Grigorchuk’s advisees

14. TAMU’s VIVO local ontology

15. Dr. Grigorchuk advisees

16. Dr. Grigorchuk advisees

17. Dr. Grigorchuk advisees

18. Dr. Grigorchuk advisees

20. Dr. Kravchenko’s co-author network

21. Dr. Sunik

22. Dr. Sunic’s advisees

23. Dr. Sunic’s advisee – David Carol’s ORCID

24. “The integration of ORCID identifiers into Texas
A&M’s community of new scholars, particularly
current graduate students and post-doctoral
researchers, is projected to demonstrate the
benefits ORCID identifiers achieve by creating a
scholarly identity and connecting trusted linkages
between authors and their earliest works.”
University Libraries → About → News and Events → 2013 News → October → Libraries Awarded Grant for ORCID
Identifiers Program

25. Thank you
Violeta Ilik
vilik@library.tamu.edu