1. ORCID:
connecting research and
researchers
Keio University School of Medicine
March 15, 2016
Nobuko Miyairi
Regional Director, Asia Pacific
n.miyairi@orcid.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3229-5662
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2. orcid.org 2
To solve name ambiguity in scholarly communications by
creating a central registry of unique identifiers and an
open and transparent linking mechanism between
ORCID and other researcher IDs and research
ORCHIDX
5. BEFORE
• First name
• Last name
• Middle name
• Transliteration
• By affiliation
• By field
• By journal
• By co-authors …
AFTER
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Name disambiguation
6. • Open Researcher & Contributor ID
• ORCID is a non-profit organization
supported by a global community of
organizational members, including
research organizations, publishers,
funders, professional associations, and
other stakeholders in the research
ecosystem.
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What is ORCID?
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Researchers can
• create, edit and
maintain an
ORCID record
• for free of
charge
• control privacy
settings for
every item
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ORCID enables assertions
ORCID member organizations ensure
persistent identifiers for people, places,
and things are connected in research
workflows
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ORCID provides plumbing for
research information: the tools to
build trust in digital information
and to reduce reporting
burdens
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ORCID is fast-growing
2012 2013 2014 2015
Over 2 million researchers have registered
for an ORCID identifier.
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200,000
400,000
600,000
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1,000,000
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1,800,000
2,000,000
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Member created
Direct via orcid.org
Member referred
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ORCID is community-driven
Funder
5%
Repositor
y
10%
Associatio
n
7%
Publishing
13%
Research
Org.
65%
Europe
53%
Middle
East &
Africa
2%
Asia
8%
Pacific Rim
6%
North
America
30%
South
America
1%
Over 400 members, 4 national consortia, 3
regional consortia, 200+ integrations in every
region and sector of the international research
community
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ORCID is researcher-
centered
University
Library
Funde
rs
Faculty Profiles
Researcher
Publishers
• Create, edit and maintain an ORCID record for free of charge
• Give explicit permissions for services to use iD via OAuth
• Control privacy settings, and read/write access
• May change settings and access privileges at any time
Researchers
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ORCID auto-update
Author
• Link own
ORCID to
author profile
• Add ORCID
to co-authors
too
Publisher
Embed authors’
ORCID in the
metadata when
the manuscript
is accepted
Crossref
Check authors’
ORCID in the
metadata when
assigning DOIs
to new
publications
ORCID
Receive new
publication info
from Crossref
and add to
authors’ ORCID
records
Notified by email
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ORCID in peer review
process
Add reviewer
contributions to
ORCID records
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ORCID @ Funders
Add your ORCID
identifier during the
grant application
process
Wellcome Trust
has integrated
ORCID iDs into its
eGrants
application
system.
25. National recommendations
• Austria: Funder requirement 2016
• Italy: National consortium 2015
• Finland: National recommendation 2015
• Australia: National recommendation 2015
• Denmark: University launch 2014
• Spain: Launched 2 consortia in 2014
• Portugal: Funder requirement 2013
• Sweden: National recommendation 2013
• UK: National recommendation 2013, pilot 2014,
consortium 2015
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ORCID @ Databases
ORCID data feed allows databases
to insert ORCID iDs retrospectively
in their records
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ORCID @ institutions
Universities and research institutions can reduce reporting burdens
by linking to ORCID
31. • Create permanent CAS
author home page
using ORCID iD
• Exchange works
metadata between
ORCID and iAuthor
• List ORCID iD on
iAuthor account
• Formal MOU for
cooperation on
researcher outreach
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iAuthor by CAS/NSL
33. Collect & Connect
• Publishers and Repositories: COLLECT iDs for
authors, contributors, and reviewers; PUBLISH
iD with work, POST paper, dataset, review IDs;
RECEIVE updates
• Associations: COLLECT iDs for members,
authors, and meeting participants; POST
affiliation and presentation IDs; RECEIVE
updates
• Funders: COLLECT iDs at grant submission and
review; PUBLISH with award; POST grant IDs
researcher record; RECEIVE updates
• Universities: COLLECT iDs for new staff and
students, at thesis submission, in faculty profile
systems; POST affiliation IDs; RECEIVE updates
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37. • Researchers can register and use
ORCID for free of charge, regardless of
whether or not their employer is an
ORCID member
• ORCID is an opt-in system. The
researcher controls their record:
registration, linked information, privacy
and access settings
• An ORCID iD and associated information
stays with an individual throughout their
career irrespective of affiliation
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ORCID is Opt-in
38. ORCID is Open
• Free, non-proprietary, platform-neutral
registry of persistent unique public
identifiers for researchers
• Community-based, independent non-
profit organization supported by
institutional membership
• Open data, software, APIs, and
documentation
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39. Privacy Policy
“Researcher privacy is important to ORCID, and
we believe that following research community-
sanctioned privacy practices is essential to the
success of ORCID and the Registry it operates. ”
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http://orcid.org/privacy-policy
40. User Privacy
Information in an ORCID Record has a privacy
setting, which is set by the account owner
Accessible by anyone
Accessible by Account Owner,
Trusted Organization(s)
Accessible by Account Owner
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41. Authentication?
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Use an
authenticated API to
collect iD (username
& password) to
ensure the person
and the iD belong
together, the iD is
correct (no typos),
and that privacy is
respected.
National consortia agreements signed with Australia, Denmark, Italy, UK
Regional consortia agreements signed with CIC, GWLA, NERL in the US
Integrations include multi-platform (eg Elsevier – Scopus, Pure, manuscript submission).
Now 10 Search & Link wizards for connecting works to your ORCID record, most recently Redalyc (major Latin American database)
Interestingly, our recent community survey
(~6,000 respondents) indicated substantial
support or ORCID mandates.16 Seventy-two
percent o respondents agreed or strongly
agreed that mandates would beneit the
global research community, with 21% neu-
tral and only 7% disagreeing or disagreeing
strongly. Similarly, between about two-thirds
and three quarters o respondents thought it
would be useul or their publisher (75%),
under, institution (both 67%), or scholarly
society (64%) to mandate ORCID.
It is the researchers that benefit greatly from ORCID iDs. They can use them throughout their career, and can already use them to distinguish themselves in publications and grants. And many are starting to see the benefits of using ORCID records in outcome tracking. For example, researchers in Portugal who receive federal funding provide their ORCID iD, and benefit from coordinated outcomes reporting by using the ORCID registry as a hub.
In 2016 we are launching a
“Levels Program” to clearly articulate how
organizations can and should be collecting
and connecting ORCID identifers. Our goals
are to clariy goals and expectations across
sectors and improve the trust in connections
between researchers and their proessional
afliations and activities. We will be enhanc-
ing our current guidance by defning prior-
ity implementation scenarios by sector and
developing streamlined communications and
technical documentation.17 ORCID is a com-
munity eort: to beneft, all must participate.
Now, researchers using their identifer
when they submit a paper or a dataset can
authorize CrossRe or DataCite to ormalize
the ORCID identifer-DOI connection when
the work is published, and to update their
ORCID record. In turn, member systems can
be alerted when an ORCID record o interest
is updated via the ORCID notifcation API
service.15 Auto-update unctionality has the
potential to transorm the way researchers
manage their scholarly record, reducing the
amount o time they have to spend manu-
ally keying, connecting, and updating their
research inormation.
ORCID was formed to address the problem of name ambiguity in scholarly communications.
Only full name and email address is required to register for an ORCID identifier. All other fields are optional. Obviously, the more other data associated with the Identifier, the more it is possible to uniquely identify an individual, in particular when more than one record may have been created for the same individual. This why we encourage users to complement their identifier by entering data into their ORCID Record.
Record holders may designate another individual to serve as a proxy to manage their record, or their institution to serve as a delegated manager of their record.
Record holders may manage what data are seen by whom, by adjusting privacy settings, and by selecting trusted organizations with whom to share limited access data and/or update the record with information on research activities linked through workflows.
Organizations may register and create records for their employee, but unless they specify authority to present data publicly, the record will remain private until claimed by the researcher. And, at all times, the researcher has the ability to change privacy, proxy, and trusted party settings.
Field; Group; Activity