Your identity as a researcher - ORCID

Tanya WilliamsonAssistant Librarian: Postgraduate, Researcher & Staff Support

• Your own perspective, knowledge and experience is what makes your work unique

• Your name (not necessarily your affiliation) will tie your work together throughout your career

Who are you?

Common and transliterated names“Estimates by China's Ministry of Public Security suggest that more than 1.1 billion people — around 85% of China's population — share just 129 surnames. Problems with abbreviations, ordering of given names and surnames and inconsistent journal practices heighten the confusion.”http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080213/full/451766a.html

Half of the population on the Korean peninsula share the three most common surnames (Kim, Lee, Park)P. Ghosh: International Business Times online, 15th Nov. 2013

Name variations

J. Å. S. Sørensen

J. Aa. S. Sørensen

J. Å. S. Sorensen

J. Aa. S. Sorensen

J. Å. S. Soerensen

J. Aa. S. Soerensen

Jens Å. S. Sørensen

Jens Aa. S. Sørensen

Jens Å. S. Sorensen

Jens Aa. S. Sorensen

Jens Å. S. Soerensen

Jens Aa. S. Soerensen

J. Åge S. Sørensen

J. Aage S. Sørensen

J. Åge S. Sorensen

J. Aage S. Sorensen

J. Åge S. Soerensen

J. Aage S. Soerensen

Jens Åge S. Sørensen

Jens Aage S. Sørensen

Jens Åge S. Sorensen

Jens Aage S. Sorensen

Jens Åge S. Soerensen

Jens Aage S. Soerensen

J. Åge Smærup Sørensen

J. Aage Smaerup Sørensen

J. Åge Smarup Sorensen

J. Aage Smarup Sorensen

J. Åge Smaerup Soerensen

J. Aage Smaerup Soerensen

Jens Åge Smærup Sørensen

Jens Aage Smaerup Sørensen

Jens Åge Smarup Sorensen

Jens Aage Smarup Sorensen

Jens Åge Smærup Soerensen

Jens Aage Smaerup Soerensen

An illustrative example: Jens Åge Smærup Sørensen

Name changes

I’ve published under different

namesI’ve changed my

name

My name changed when I moved

country

Funding • Grants • Contracts • Seed Funding • Coop Agreements

Research administration, processes and outputs

Publications • Journal Articles• Books • Patents • Legal Briefs • Algorithms• Software Code

Datasets • Physical Objects• Electronic Files• Protein Structures

Genetic Sequences

Impacts • Policy • Legal • Health • Environment • Education • Product Development • Spin Off • Workforce

The challenge

As a researcher, you want to• eliminate name ambiguity, distinguishing you from

other researchers and ensuring proper attribution.• ensure your work is discoverable and connected to

you throughout your career;• minimize the time you spend entering repetitive

data online

A solution?

• Open Researcher & Contributor ID• Unique, persistent identifier for researchers &

scholars• Free to researchers• Can be used throughout one’s career, across

professional activities, disciplines, nations & languages

• Maintains a registry

Adoption by researchers

orcid.org

Register, link, use

Register: Names including in other characters

Link works: automatically using the import features, and manually if necessary

Add info:Other IDs,EducationEmployment…

Use ID: emails, profiles, publications, manuscript submissions, job applications, grant applications, datasets…

• IDs could be integrated into University systems, such as Research Information System, HR, Repository, REF

• More publishers could start to request an ORCID upon submission

Possible future applications

“The motto is: ‘Input once – re-use often.’”

Wolfram Horstmann, Associate Director, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

For benefits to be realized…

Researchers must claim

and use ORCID iDs

Research information processes

and systems must embed

ORCID iDs and link back

with the ORCID

Registry

• ORCID website http://orcid.org/• User help: http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/topics/32827-website-user

• Ghosh, P. (2013) Kim, Park And Lee: Why Do Koreans Have So Few Surnames? International Business Times. 15th November 2013. (Accessed on 25th September 2014 from http://www.ibtimes.com/kim-park-lee-why-do-koreans-have-so-few-surnames-1472324)

• Qiu, J. (2008) Scientific publishing: Identity crisis. Nature, 451, 766-767 DOI:10.1038/451766a (Accessed 25th September 2014 from http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080213/full/451766a.html )

• Whitlock Burton, K. (ed). (2008) Random Samples: One Wei or Another. Science, 319 no. 5865, 881 DOI: 10.1126/science.319.5865.881d (Accessed 25th September 2014 from http://www.sciencemag.org/content/319/5865/881.4.full.pdf?sid=a591f3ed-c7ef-49fb-9335-13f6a9099ccd)

Many thanks to Michael Ladisch (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0124-5582) for kindly permitting me to reuse content from his slides and to the ORCID Community for providing the Overview of ORCID slides for use in raising awareness.

Useful links and credits

Questions and discussion

Next session…

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See you in November!

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