ORCID is an open, non-profit organization that provides a registry of unique researcher identifiers and aims to link researchers to their professional activities such as publications, datasets, and more. The presentation discusses the problems ORCID aims to address like linking researchers across databases and improving discoverability. It outlines ORCID's mission, benefits to the research community, how the ORCID registry works, privacy considerations, integration opportunities, growth since launch, international usage, members, support available, and how to join ORCID.

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Connecting Research and Researchers
An Introduction to ORCID
Ed Pentz, Exective Director, CrossRef
Chair, ORCID Board of Directors
epentz@crossref.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5993-8592

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Move from Journal centric …

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… to Contributor centric
Courtesy of Herbert van de Sompel
Towards a Machine-Actionable Scholarly Communication System
http://www.slideshare.net/hvdsomp/towards-a-machineactionable-
scholarly-communication-system

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6. 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 managemen
• Member and meeting management
• Reviewer selection
• Interoperability between research info systems
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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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
Accessible by anyone
Accessible by Account Owner, Trusted Organization(s)
Accessible by Account Owner, Proxy(ies)
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11. • 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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%

15. ORCID Members
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ORCID has 60 members, from a broad cross-
section of the international research community
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Publishers Aries, Copernicus, Elsevier, EDP Sciences, eLIFE, Epistemio, Hindawi, Karger, Nature,
Peerage of Science, ScienceOpen, Springer, Wiley
Associations AAAS, ACSESS, American Psychological Association, American Physical Society,
American Society of Microbiology, American Society of Civil Engineers, Association for
Computing Machinery, Modern Language Association, Optical Society of America,
Royal Society of Chemistry
Funders DOE, FDA NIH, Wellcome Trust, NIHR
Universities and
Research
Organizations
Boston University, CalTech, Chalmers University of Technology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences Library, CERN, Cornell University, EMBL (EBI), FHCRC, Glasgow University
Harvard University, IFPRI, KISTI, MIT, MSKCC, National Institute of Informatics, NYU
Langone Medical Center, Riga Technical University, Universidad de Oviedo,
Universidad de Zaragoza, University College of London, University of Hong Kong,
University of Kansas, University of Michigan
IDs ResearcherID, Scopus
Repositories and
Profile Systems
Altmetric, ANDS, AVEDAS, CrossRef, DataCite, Faculty of 1000, figshare, Knode, OCLC,
PubMed Europe (EBI), Symplectic, Thomson Reuters

16. • 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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17. 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

18. Dryad Plans
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Dryad’s plans for ORCID iDs
• Not only use but expose ORCIDs
• Make benefits tangible to submitters
• Promote uptake of ORCIDs among contributors
• Associate ORCIDs with both
• Submitters
• Contributors
• Capture ORCIDs received from
• Publishers & CrossRef
• Authors
• Coauthors
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19. Associate ORCIDs with items
• Associate ORCIDs with contributors
• Allow multiple identifier schemes at different
levels
• ORCIDs,ISNIs,Scopus IDs,etc.
• Enable ORCID lookup upon submission
• Launch ORCID registration for both
authors and coauthors
• Convey ORCIDs to DataCite
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Dryad Plans
Todd Vision/Laure Haak: OAI8, Geneva
http://www.slideshare.net/ORCIDSlides/orcid-oai8-20130618

20. 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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21. “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 PubMed
Diehl 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, 21

22. 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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23. 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

26. 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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27. 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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28. National adoption: UK
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchmanagement/researchinformation/orcid
.aspx
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29. 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,
Membership
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30. 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
http://orcid.org/about/membership
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31. More Information
• http://www.orcid.org/
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