ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier for researchers, enhancing the discoverability and attribution of their works. It supports research workflows and integrates with various systems, ensuring user privacy and security. Over 1.3 million researchers have registered, benefiting from automated updates and widespread adoption in the international research community.

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Contact Info: p. +1-301-922-9062 a. 10411 Motor City Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA
Your Work is Distinctive,
What AboutYour Name?
SSP15 Pre-Conference Workshop, 27 May 2015
Laurel L. Haak, PhD
Executive Director, ORCID
L.Haak@orcid.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5109-3700

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Digital scholarly communications require
information that is machine readable

3. Digital Names Needed
• Different versions (full
name vs. initials)
• Shared names
• Transliteration
• Accents and other ALT
characters
• Name changes
• Multiple family names
J. Å. S. Sørensen
J.Aa. S. Sørensen
J. Åge S. Sørensen
J.Aage S. Sørensen
J. Åge Smærup Sørensen
J.Aage Smaerup Sørensen

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What is ORCID?
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier
(“digital name”) that distinguishes researchers from
each other
Member-built integrations in key research workflows
such as manuscript and grant submission support
automated linkages between researchers and their
professional activities and affiliations, ensuring that
works are appropriately attributed and discoverable
ORCID serves as a hub enabling machine-readable
connections between identifiers for organizations,
works, and person IDs

5. ORCID provides plumbing for
research information
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6. Data Security
• User opt-in
• User controls access settings
• User can revoke access
• Sensitive data not collected
• Privacy policy (http://orcid.org/privacy-policy)
• External Safe Harbor compliance review
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7. Leveraging existing standards
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ORCID works collaboratively
with the research community
to ensure adoption and use of
research information standards

8. Building trust:
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• Tools to allow for easy addition of identifiers (for
people, places, and things) during publishing, grant
application, thesis deposit, etc.
• Engage the community to embed, authenticate, and
assert

9. Researcher Responsibility
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To benefit from ORCID, researchers
need only do two things:
① Register
② Use iD

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Over 1.3 million researchers have registered for
an ORCID identifier.
Through their actions, ORCID identifiers are
associated with:
• 2 million unique DOIs
• 20 thousand unique educational affiliations
• 30 thousand unique employing organizations

11. ORCID responsibility
Build the infrastructure:
• Create the tools to allow for easy addition of
ORCID iD during publishing, grant application, thesis
deposit, etc.
• Engage the community to embed tools
• Ensure that the iD is published with the paper /
dataset / grant / thesis, etc.
• Work with the community to push linked metadata
into ORCID record (“auto-update”)
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12. Integration in research systems
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Over 200 members and nearing 200
integrations in every region and sector of the
international research community.
Americas
48%
EMEA
36%
Asia Pacific
16%
Funder
7%
Publishing
16%
Repository
20%
Research
Institute
45%
Association
12%

13. ORCID iDs are being embedded in articles

14. …and publication search engines
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15. …and also in theses, personnel records…
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… and association membership systems …

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…and data management
… and datasets…
Witt 2014
PeerJ 2015

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... and grants…

19. National approach
Community starting to take a national approach to
ORCID adoption and implementation.
• Austria: Funder requirement 2016
• Finland: National recommendation 2015
• Australia: National recommendation 2015
• Denmark: University launch 2014
• Portugal: Funder requirement 2013
• Sweden: National recommendation 2013
• UK: National recommendation 2012
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ORCID Working Group: Joint Statement of Principle: ORCID - Connecting Researchers
and Research. Canberra; 2015 doi:10.4225/14/552b16efae74b
(14 April 2015)

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22. The metadata “round trip” enables auto-updates
for systems linked to the ORCID registry
Metadata auto-updates
http://orcid.org/blog/2015/01/13/new-webinar-metadata-round-trip

23. • Over 180,000 articles have been
submitted to CrossRef with an associated
ORCID iD
• These will start to flow into the ORCID
registry this year
• Researchers who use their ORCID iD
when they publish will not need to
manually update their record in
ORCID or in connected systems
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24. Find out more at
http://orcid.org
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