ORCID is a non-profit organization that aims to give researchers unique identifiers that connect their contributions across disciplines and borders. Their vision is for all researchers to be uniquely identified. ORCID provides researchers with a free, easy-to-use identifier that they can use to enter information once and have it reused across different systems and organizations. Having an ORCID identifier enables greater discoverability and recognition of a researcher's work. An increasing number of funders and publishers are requiring ORCID identifiers.

1. Start Here
orcid.orgContact Info: p. +1-301-922-9062 a. 10411 Motor City Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA
Spreading the ORCID word
Alice Meadows, Director – Community Engagement & Support
Communications webinar, March 1, 2016

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ORCID’s vision is a world where
all researchers are uniquely
identified
and connected to their
contributions
across time, disciplines, and
borders.

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We work with the research
community to make the systems
researchers use - and the Internet
overall - work better for everyone
in scholarly communications.

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5. Collect & Connect
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Collect Display Connect Sync
AUTHENTICATE!

6. Collect & Connect
• Clarify goals and expectations across
sectors
• Standardize and improve the user
experience
• Improve trust in connections between
ORCID and other identifiers
• Increase efficiency and quality of
integrations
• Help ensure ORCID sustainability through
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7. Why ORCID for researchers
1. Their lifelong digital name
2. Free to register, easy to use
3. “Enter once, reuse often”
4. Embedded in the systems they use
5. Researcher controlled
6. Enables discoverability and recognition
7. Increasingly being required by funders and
publishers
ORCID is researcher-centered
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1. Lifelong digital name
• Accents and other characters
• Name changes
• Multiple family names
• Shared names
• Different versions
• Transliteration

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1. Lifelong digital name

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11. 2. Free to register, easy to
use
• Less than one minute to register
• One version of name, email, and
password
• Easy to connect works and affiliations
• Search & Link functionality for works
• 40k organizational identifiers
• UberResearch grant information
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3. “Enter once, reuse often” eg Auto-
Update
ORCID Record
publisher
university
libraries
funders
submit
manuscri
pt
ACCEPTED!
Include in
metadata
obtain
DOI
notify
preprint
library
auto-
update
ORCID
NEW
INFO!
faculty
profiles
inform grant
outputs
update
profiles

13. 4. Embedded in systems they use
• Manuscript submission systems (55%)
• Editorial Manager, eJournal Press,
ScholarOne and more
• Funder/grant submission systems
(26%)
• 14 members, 9 integrations, 4 enabling
platforms
• Institutional systems (14%)
• CRIS systems (Converis, Pure,
Symplectic)
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14. 5. Researcher-controlled
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University
Library
Funde
rs
Faculty Profiles
Researcher
Publishers
• Create, edit, and maintain free ORCID record
• Give explicit permissions for services to use iD
• Control privacy settings, and read/write access
• Change settings and access privileges at any time

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Repositories
Funders
Educatio
n &
Employer
s
Profession
al
Association
s
Other
person
identifier
s
Publisher
s
ISNI
Researcher ID
Scopus Author ID
Internal identifiers
FundRefID
GrantID
ISNI
Ringgold ID
Member ID
Abstract ID
DOI
URI
Thesis IDDOI
ISB
N
With other
identifiers,
ORCID makes
researchers &
their works
discoverable
through
machine-
readable
connections
with:
• works
• organizations
• person IDs
6. Discoverability & recognition

16. 7. Increasingly required
• 8+ funder mandates (67% support)
• 15 signatories to publisher open letter
(75% support)
72% agreed/strongly agreed that
requiring ORCID would be good for the
global research community
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17. Researcher
responsibilities
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To benefit,
researchers need
only do two things
① Register for an iD
② Use it!

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ORCID facts and figures
• ~2m registrants
• 450+ organizational members
• 65% research institutions
• 55% Europe, 30% N America
• Four national consortia, three US consortia
• >225 live integrations
https://orcid.org/statistics

19. Ideas for spreading the wor
• Identify/work with champions
• Pilot with small groups first
• Top down AND bottom up approach
• Regular updates and reminders
• Keep messaging relevant
• Use straightforward language
• Create collateral (and/or use ours)
Ask us for help!
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ORCID survey
www.surveymonkey.com
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2008206)

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ORCID training resources –soon!
Wikipedia.org

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23. Members.orcid.org
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25. ORCID blog
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26. Follow us!
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@ORCID_Org
ORCID
ORCID Initiative

27. Example: Flinders University

28. All staff broadcast email
Pilot project
Example: Flinders University

29. Broadcast email
School of Psychology
Example: Flinders University

30. Target email
School of Psychology
Example: Flinders University

31. Follow-up target email
School of Psychology
Example: Flinders University

32. Help pages and Libguide
Example: Flinders University

33. Help pages and Libguide
Example: Flinders University

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ORCiD total uptake:
by date
Pilot project launch
University launch
Example: Flinders University

35. Questions or ideas?
community@orcid.org
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