Panel discussion: Why ORCID? Perspectives from the university community
Moderator: Barbara Allen, Executive Director, Committee on Institutional Cooperation
Presenters:
Karen Butler-Purry, Associate Provost for Graduate and Professional Studies, Texas A&M University
Keith Hazelton, Senior IT Architect the University of Wisconsin-Madison/Chair of Internet2 MACE-Dir working group
Neil Jacobs, Programme Director, Digital Infrastructure, Jisc
Yan Shuai, President, Society of China University Journals (CUJS)
Cloud Frontiers: A Deep Dive into Serverless Spatial Data and FME
Why ORCID in the UK
1. Why ORCID?
Perspectives from the university community
UK
Neil Jacobs
Head of Scholarly Communications Support
E n.jacobs@jisc.ac.uk
M 0784 195 1303
Skype neil.jacobs1
Twitter @njneilj
One Castlepark, Tower Hill, Bristol, BS2 0JA
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8050-8175
2. What I’ll cover
• Background
• ORCID pilot projects in the UK
• Use cases – why did the UK go forORCID?
• Consensus?
4. Why ORCID? Review of use cases
• streamline and improve reporting processes to funders
• facilitate transfer of information about researchers and their
outputs when they move organisation
• serve as a tool to manage access to and monitor use of national
and international resources and facilities
• enable better historical analysis and description of research
constellations and emerging new fields
• by facilitating more, and also more accurate, activity tracking, it
has the potential to broaden the scope of CVs and outputs and
achievements for junior researchers
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/generalpublications/2013/future-of-orcid-in-uk-he.aspx
5. Why ORCID? University pilots
• University ofYork
– “The guiding principle of ORCID implementation atYork will
be the benefit it brings to researchers.”
– “The University ofYork publications policy (pending formal
approval) will require the use of ORCID by researchers when
submitting and recording their publications.”
– Technical systems: EPrints, Elsevier PURE
6. Why ORCID? University pilots
• University of Southampton
– “The aim is to use the ORCID IDs to improve the chain of
identity between systems, minimising the administrative
steps needed and maximising the potential of data.”
– “Three tiered approach with a combination of:
• a roll out of ORCID ID for all researchers with institution-‐wide impetus
• focus on a specific proof‐of‐concept exemplar working with the
equipment focussed research community
• services working in partnership with research groups to support
cultural engagement and researcher-‐led uptake”
– Technical systems: EPrints, Equipment.data
7. Why ORCID? University pilots
• University of Oxford
– “The problem is common across the university in matters
surrounding statutory reporting, digital scholarship (research
outputs) and in other matters around research information
management.”
– “The main premis for the University is that all it requires is an
ORCID is linked to a user’s personal profile at Oxford via their
SSO (Single Sign On) username in order to improve its
research information management, and to be able to offer
more streamlined services to authors.”
– Technical systems: Symplectic, Fedora/Hydra
8. Why ORCID? University pilots
• University of Kent
– “To encourage Kent PhD students and early career
researchers to sign-up forORCID.This group are often very
mobile at the early stages of their career so a persistent
identifier would be particularly useful.”
– “Examine and report on the potential of ORCID IDs to aid
effective reporting internally, back to funders, HEFCE, HESA
and other agents.”
– Technical systems: EPrints,Thomson-Reuters Converis
9. Why ORCID? University pilots
• Swansea University
– “Bulk ORCID and ISNI registration on behalf of staff
– Integrate ORCID and ISNI with RIS and Cronfa Repository and
PersonalWeb Pages
– Sharing experiences with Welsh Repository Network
– Working with staff to raise awareness and engagement”
– Technical systems: DSpace, CRIS
10. Why ORCID? University pilots
• Imperial College
– ”In January 2014 the Provost’s Board at Imperial College
London approved a proposal for the University to become a
member of ORCID, to issue all staff and research students
with an identifier and to integrate ORCID into processes and
technical systems.”
– “…automatically share information between the College’s
institutional repository and external systems to increase the
visibility of our research outputs. Increased uptake of ORCID
would simplify that process…”
– Technical systems: DSpace, Symplectic Elements
11. Why ORCID? University pilots
• Aston University
– “Improving the level of publications in PURE / repository
– Move our researchers towards an Open Access culture and
Compliance with Funders’ Requirements
– Raise Aston’s research profile in the global HE environment”
– Technical systems: EPrints, PURE
12. Summary: why ORCID?
• Universities have old and new roles in research:
– Reporting (to funders, to statutory bodies, to show impact..)
– Strategic planning (target resources, collaborate/compete)
– Publishing (eg, paying APCs, also university presses)
– Data curation
– Facilities management, etc.
• So their systems need interoperability with third party services -
PubMed, Scopus,CrossRef, DataCite, equipment.data, etc
13. Thank you
Neil Jacobs
Head of Scholarly Communications Support
E n.jacobs@jisc.ac.uk
M 0784 195 1303
Skype neil.jacobs1
Twitter @njneilj
One Castlepark, Tower Hill, Bristol, BS2 0JA
Comments?
Questions?
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