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The ARC and ORCID
16 February 2016
Professor Aidan Byrne Australian Research Council
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Outline • ARC & NHMRC joint statement • Benefits of ORCID • What the ARC is doing • Engagement and Impact
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ARC & NHMRC Joint Statement 2015
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Benefits of ORCID
• Deduplication of data and disambiguation of researchers and research outputs
• Linking and reuse of high quality, persistent data • Streamline research processes and collaboration • Contribute to enhancing the nation’s research
profile through improved visibility and discoverability of research outputs and impacts
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The ARC’s role • Continue to act on its commitment to the benefits
ORCID presents to the Australian research system
• Work collaboratively with the sector, other government agencies and ORCID on implementation and policy development
• Support and reinforce shared purpose and achievement of mutual outcomes from ORCID
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ARC activities and implementation • ARC & NHMRC joint statement (Apr 2015) • Actively involved with the ORCID Working Group • Australian ORCID Consortium member • Authenticated ORCID identifiers collected in
application process for all funding schemes, beginning with Discovery Projects (Dec 2015)
• Continuing work to integrate and utilise ORCID within RMS and other ARC processes
ARC NCGP % funding by ins9tu9on 2008-‐2015
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Others
Charles Sturt University
University of Canberra
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation University of South Australia
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Australia
University of Western Sydney
La Trobe University
Swinburne University of Technology
Deakin University
RMIT University
The Flinders University of South Australia
University of Technology, Sydney
Curtin University of Technology
Griffith University
The University of Newcastle
Queensland University of Technology
University of Wollongong
National ICT Australia
Macquarie University
University of Tasmania
James Cook University
The University of Adelaide
The University of Western Australia
The University of Sydney
The Australian National University
The University of New South Wales
Monash University
The University of Melbourne
The University of Queensland
IRU ATN Go8 Unaligned unis & others
Na9onal Compe99ve Grants Programme Discovery Programmes Linkage Programmes
Laureate Fellowships
Future Fellowships
DECRA
Discovery Projects
Centres of Excellence
SRIs
ITRP
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Other Fellowships
Area of box represents $$ funded over the period 2011-2015. N.B. - Centres of Excellence, SRIs, not awarded in every year. - ITRP & DECRA only funding since 2012
LIEF Other Linkage
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Understanding what we are doing!
• Discipline map for Discovery Projects
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Benefits of ORCID for research
• There are exciting publications data that can’t be analysed until solutions to disambiguate authors are found.
• Too many Smiths!
Image shows a network of
authorship – but there are currently
too many ambiguiUes for it to
be used.
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Benefits of ORCID at the ARC • ORCID information could potentially be used by the
ARC for: • reporting: reduction of burden • streamlining applications: “Harvest and review” • compliance checks for claims made in grant
proposals (authorship of research outputs, qualifications, employment, collaborations etc.)
• assessor selection and matching • conflict of interest processes (RMS look up of
information in ORCID for publications listed in proposals in order to identify those on that application not to be used as Assessors).
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ERA 2015: Outcomes ERA 2015 results are available in: State of Australian University Research 2015-‐2016 , Volume 1, ERA Na@onal Report.*
ERA 2015 outcomes show Australia’s universiUes conUnue to produce high-‐quality research across a wide range of disciplines. Overall research quality is improving and reflects ERA’s role in focussing universiUes on research quality. Of the UoEs assessed in both ERA 2015 and the previous round, ERA 2012, 56 per cent of these maintained the same raUng, while 29 per cent improved their raUng by one. The ERA results show an extraordinary breadth of outstanding research performance in Australia. *Available at: www.arc.gov.au.
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ERA 2012 to ERA 2015 Growth There was steady growth in Australia’s university research acUvity between the ERA 2012 and ERA 2015 rounds, including increases in:
• the total number of assessed UoEs, up 6% to 2460
• the number of research outputs submi_ed, up 5% to 432,747
• the number of research staff submi_ed, up 11% to 67,579
• total number of patents, up 20% to 936.
No. of outputs
+5%
Total HERDC income
(Cat 1-4) +13%
Number of
Research Staff +11%
Esteem +10%
No. Of patents +20%
No. of units of
evaluation +6%
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Measuring Impact
• In 2016 the ARC will work with the higher education research sector, industry and other end-users of research to develop quantitative and qualitative measures of impact and engagement.
• A pilot assessment will take place in 2017. The ARC will conduct a full assessment in 2018 as a companion to ERA
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Universi9es are mul9-‐dimensional
We need a be_er and more complete descripUon of acUvity.
Engagemen
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Thank you