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orcid.orgContact Info: p. +1-301-922-9062 a. 10411 Motor City Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA
ORCID cross-sector application
and use cases
ORCID Workshop, Ottawa, 20 May 2016
Laurel L. Haak, PhD
Executive Director, ORCID
L.Haak@orcid.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5109-3700

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Engaging Researchers
“Researchers want to be read,
acknowledged, and quoted.”
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“Researchers want to spend
their time on research,
not reporting”

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Names are Messy
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Can names be cleaned up?
Of course they can!
We need to use digital names:
persistent identifiers that uniquely
specify the person,organization, or
object to which a name refers

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ORCID provides persistent digital
identifiers that distinguish researchers
from each other

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ORCID is Open
• Non-proprietary and platform-neutral
• International service that integrates
with other researcher identifiers
• Registry use is free for individuals
• Independent non-profit membership
organization
• Open data, software,APIs, and
documentation

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Researcher Responsibility
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To benefit,
researchers need
only do 2 things:
① Register for an iD
② Use it!

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Over 2 million researchers have registered
for an ORCID identifier.
ORCID iDs are associated with:
• >5 million unique DOIs (papers & data)
• >40 thousand unique organization IDs

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DEMO VIDEO
DEMO VIDEO

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Organizations are
use ORCID APIs to
authenticate, collect,
display, and connect
persistent identifiers
for people, places,
and things in
research workflows
ORCID enables assertions

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NIH Video
Wiley instructions
Publisher
requirement page
UC Davis LibGuide
SSO
Oxford LibGuide

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People, places, and things
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“We want to use ORCIDs to simplify
the life of Oxford’s researchers for
working with institutional systems and
publishers’ systems by re-using already
available information for publication
data management and reporting.
The motto is: Input once – re-use
often.”
Wolfram Horstmann,Assoc.Director,Bodleian Libraries,
University of Oxford
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8673-6104
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Universities

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Funders
National funding agencies are using ORCID in their
grants management systems including the National
Institutes of Health (US), Research Councils UK and
the Australian Research Council.
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http://orcid.org/blog/2015/12/04/research-funders-and-orcid-new-members-mandates-and-platforms

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Publishers
requiring
ORCID iDs:
Science
EMBO
PLOS
Royal Society
ACS
eLIFE
Hindawi
IEEE
AGU

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People andThings
orcid.org
ORCID Record
University Library
Funder
s
submit
manuscript
notifications to
member
systems
Faculty Profiles
http://crosstech.crossref.org/2015/09/orcid-auto-update.html
submit
metadata
update
author
ORCID
record

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Auto-update in action

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DEMONSTRATION

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The ability to uniquely identify
contributors is a deceptively simple
concept which,if realised, could enable
forms of real-time understanding of
scientific research that up to now have
been extremely costly (if not impossible).
--Jonathan Kram,WellcomeTrust