Presentation on the Imperial College London ORCID project, given at the 'UK ORCID members meeting and launch of Jisc consortium', held at Imperial College London, 28th September 2015.

1. Imperial College ORCID project
UK ORCID members meeting and launch of Jisc consortium
Imperial College London, 28th September 2015
Dr Torsten Reimer
Scholarly Communications Officer
Imperial College London
t.reimer@imperial.ac.uk / @torstenreimer
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8357-9422

2. Why ORCID? REF Open Access Example
Author links
ORCID with
CRIS
…shares ORCID
iD with publisher
…shares funder
information with
publisher
Publisher mints
DOI on
acceptance
…shares iD and
funder details
with CrossRef
CRIS pulls data
from CrossRef,
using ORCID iD
Jisc ‘Router’
manuscript
Link via iD

3. Imperial ORCID Project
• Internal project approved in early 2014 by Provost’s Board
• Imperial joined Jisc-ARMA-ORCID pilot
Project aims:
• Raise awareness of ORCID
• Encourage uptake of ORCID
• Issue researchers with an iD
Approach:
1. Communications campaign (Nov-Dec ‘14)
2. Capture existing iDs in Symplectic Elements
3. Offer an opt-out
4. Create iDs via API
5. Pre-populate profiles, but leave academics to decide what is public
6. Encourage academics to link iD to Symplectic Elements

4. ORCID Project in Numbers
Overall number of staff included initially 4,347
Staff excluded (those not listed in public staff directory) 332
Staff opting out 25
Existing iDs added to Symplectic 439
Existing iDs identified through ORCID de-duplication 325
New staff iDs created 3,226
Publications added to ORCID registry >240.000
Staff iDs linked to Symplectic (as of 19/01/15) 1,155
Requests for iD deletion (e.g. missed by de-duplication) 7
Project report:
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk:8443/handle/10044/1/19271

5. Recommendations and Current/Next Steps
• Focus on useful and used iDs, not iDs created
• Academic interest: 1,155 iDs manually linked back to College within
7 weeks (incl. Christmas break), despite (currently) limited benefits
• Privacy did not prove to be a major concern – engage proactively
• Clear communications and strong support across the university,
including senior management, are critical
If we did it again…
…we would use ORCID’s create on demand approach
Current/Next steps:
• Continue awareness raising campaign, increase uptake
• Add ORCID support to Spiral (repository) and Personal Web Pages
• Work with partners to improve ORCID integrations and uptake (today!!)
iDs registered now (~700 staff joined/left College since iD creation): 1,400
“I am strongly supportive of this initiative.”
James Stirling, Imperial College Provost