Presentation by Laurel Haak, ORCID Executive Director (orcid.org/0000-0001-5109-3750) at RCUK, Swindon, UK, on 22 May 2015.

1. orcid.org
Contact Info: p. +1-301-922-9062 a. 10411 Motor City Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA
Adoption and Use by the Research
Community: Focus on Funders
Research Councils UK, Swindon, 22 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. Algorithms not enough
• 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 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. v Data Governance: ORCID is
committed to maintaining persistence of the ORCID
identifier Registry and data in its charge.
v Organization Governance: ORCID is governed by an
elected Board of Directors, majority non-profit, drawn from
and representative of ORCID member organizations.
Governance documents are posted online.
v Community Driven: ORCID
Steering and Working Groups and an
Ambassador program are open to the research community.
v Staff: ORCID operations are managed by a full time staff.
ORCID Governance
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10. 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 works
• 20 thousand unique educational affiliations
• 30 thousand unique employing organizations

12. 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 metadata back
to ORCID record
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13. 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%

14. Registry use in the UK
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London
Cambridge
Oxford
Manchester
Bristol
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Birmingham
Leeds
Nottingham
34 members in the UK
including UCL, Imperial
College, Oxford University,
British Library, Royal Society
of Chemistry, Oxford
University Press, and
Cambridge University Press.
Nearly 50 000 ORCID
records with a UK
affiliation.
ORCID Registry traffic from the
UK represents 5.6% of total usage.
Top 10 cities in UK, by usage:

15. UK ORCID Pilot Project
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Participants:
Aston University
Imperial College London
Northumbria University
University of Southampton
Swansea University
University of Kent
University of Oxford
University ofYork
Findings
• Technical aspects of implementation were
not a major issue for most pilot institutions.
• Most pilot institutions found it relatively
easy to persuade senior management about
the institutional benefits of ORCID
• Increasing awareness of ORCID benefits
among researchers

16. 50 institutions have expressed
interest in joining a UK-wide
ORCID membership consortium
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“Where possible, it is also
recommended that contributors be
uniquely identifiable, and data uniquely
attributable, through identifiers which
are persistent, non-proprietary, open
and interoperable (e.g. through
leveraging existing sustainable initiatives
such as ORCID for contributor
identifiers and DataCite for data
identifiers).”
European Commission H2020 Grantee Guidelines
http://biomedicalresearchworkforce.nih.gov/tracking-system.htm#d
Funding Policy
• FCT (Portugal) mandated use of ORCID in 2013
• SRC (Sweden) mandated use of ORCID in Spring 2015
• Wellcome Trust will mandate use of ORCID starting Fall 2015
• SFI (Ireland) will mandate use of ORCID in the next funding cycle
• FWF (Austria) will mandate the use of ORCID starting in 2016
• ARC and NHMRC (Australia) recommend use of ORCID

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https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/_files_nhmrc/file/grants/policy/nhmrc_arc_orcid_statement_april_2015.pdf

19. Grant applications: WellcomeTrust
Add your ORCID
identifier during the grant
application process
Wellcome Trust
integrated ORCID
iDs into its eGrants
application system in
2013. Over 1500
applicants registered
for an ORCID
during application,
prior to Wellcome
mandating use in
2015.

20. Updating award information
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Researchers can connect
to existing projects AND
can receive updates when
grant awarded
Funders can
embed ORCID iD
during the grant
application
workflow
ORCID record includes
funder name, grant number,
source, date

21. ORCID iDs are being embedded in articles

22. …and publication search engines
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23. …and also in theses, personnel records…
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24. …and repositories
• DataCite
• Dspace
• ePrints
• EThOS
• HUBzero
• Hydra/Fedora
• InSPIRE
• Vireo
• Reactome
More at
http://orcid.org/blog/2014/03/10/orcid-
repositories-and-researchers
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… and association membership systems …

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

27. What can Funders Do?
• Integrate ORCID iD using authentication
• Collect iD during grant application
• Collect iD for reviewers
• Include iD in public award database
• Update awardee/reviewer ORCID record
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28. Case Study: Portugal
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29. Research data repository
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30. First step
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12/2/13,
1866
12/2/13,
12010
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000
Oct-12 Jan-13 Apr-13 Aug-13 Nov-13 Feb-14
iDs created with .pt email domain
Weekly total Running total
FCT requires grantees to register
for ORCID iD and link to
organization and works
Fundação para a Ciência
e a Tecnologia (FCT) is
using ORCID as a
component of a nation-
wide CRIS eco-system,
enabling interoperability
among multiple research
systems including the
RCAAP national Open
Access repository, the
DeGóis CV system, and
the Authenticus indexed
publications repository

31. 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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33. 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

34. • 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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35. Find out more at
http://orcid.org
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Thank you