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)

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?

3. 3
• January 2013
Joint statement in support of ORCID
(ARMA, HEFCE, HESA, RCUK, UCISA,
Wellcome Trust, Jisc); joint
implementation plan
September 2013
Jisc report: use cases and views on
the future of ORCID in UK Higher
Education
May 2014 – January 2015
Jisc-ARMA ORCID pilot project:
institutional implementation case
studies; assess costs benefits and
risks; investigate national ORCID
membership for UK; Jisc/ARMA
contribution to joint
implementation plan
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Researcher identifiers: ORCID adoption in the UK
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchmanagement/researchinformation/orcid.aspx
http://orcidpilot.jiscinvolve.org/wp/

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
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Questions?
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