Why ORCID?Perspectives from the university

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Neil JacobsHead of Scholarly Communications Support

E n.jacobs@jisc.ac.ukM 0784 195 1303Skype neil.jacobs1Twitter @njneiljOne Castlepark, Tower Hill, Bristol, BS2 0JA

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What I’ll cover

• Background

• ORCID pilot projects in the UK

• Use cases – why did the UK go for ORCID?

• Consensus?

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• 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 2015Jisc-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/

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

Why ORCID? University pilots

• University of York

– “The guiding principle of ORCID implementation at York will be the benefit it brings to researchers.”

– “The University of York publications policy (pending formal approval) will require the use of ORCID by researchers when submitting and recording their publications.”

– Technical systems: EPrints, Elsevier PURE

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

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

Why ORCID? University pilots

• University of Kent

– “To encourage Kent PhD students and early career researchers to sign-up for ORCID. 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

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 Personal Web Pages

– Sharing experiences with Welsh Repository Network

– Working with staff to raise awareness and engagement”

– Technical systems: DSpace, CRIS

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

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

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

Thank you

Neil JacobsHead of Scholarly Communications Support

E n.jacobs@jisc.ac.ukM 0784 195 1303Skype neil.jacobs1Twitter @njneiljOne Castlepark, Tower Hill, Bristol, BS2 0JA

Comments?Questions?

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