Integration of ORCID identifiers by

publishers

Véronique Kiermer, PhD

Executive Editor

Head of Researchers Services

Nature Publishing Group

ORCID Outreach Meeting

October 2013

Credits

• Howard Ratner, CHORUS

• Tara Packer, Head of Authors & Referees Services, NPG

• Mark Henry, Vrushali Potdar, Ingrid McNamara, Rebecca Barr, Alex Kotin

Journal website Manuscript trackingsystem

NPG facilitates ORCID registration at two touch points

Readers, Subscribers, Commenters

Authors, Referees

Benefits to publishers

• disambiguation of user accounts

• cross-talk between multiple internal systems

• richer connections on the website

• service to authors

Upon registration

ORCID: Authentication - set up NPG as trusted entity

ORCID information prepopulates NPG registration form

In NPG systems: - a given ORCID can only be linked to one account - only one ORCID per account- user authenticate once then ORCID is shared with their other

accounts in other NPG systems

Upon manuscript submission

Authenticate to ORCIDto create an identifieror link an existing identifierSet up NPG as trustedentity

ORCID information pre-populates author information in submission form

ORCID becomes associated with eJPaccount

Searching NPG database by ORCID

ORCID collection

Production

Article file

Publication

Third party

Export from eJP to production tracking system

Adding ORCID in XML

Upon publication

Link from article to ORCID record

• In future: update of ORCID record upon publication

• NPG already sends ORCID-doi association to CrossRef and indexers

• In future, CrossRef will be able to push information to ORCID

ORCID collection

Production

Article file

Publication

Third party

Publishers implementation challenges

• O Auth protocol implementation

• ensuring that ORCIDs remain unique

• dealing with multiple vendors during production

• manual integration in XML

• proofing challenges

• correction policy

Stats

• Traffic referral to ORCID from NPG systems: 3,000 visitors/month (~2,500 unique visitors)

• ORCID creation: ~1,000 /month• September: 1,735 authorizations; 25 access

denied

Since launch at NPG (1 year): • 4500 user accounts in manuscript tracking system

with ORCIDs• 4166 user accounts in nature.com with ORCIDs

An ORCID mandate for all authors?

• we currently do not mandate ORCIDs

• we may consider mandating ORCID for corresponding authors/submitters but NOT for co-authors

• we need strong incentives for authors to make them link an ORCID to their paper

• requires the whole ecosystem to work in coordinated fashion

Two options to encourage adoption

Contact co-authors

• Publisher collects min information about co-authors from submitter: name, email

• Publisher contacts all co-authors during manuscript consideration – asking them to register for an ORCID

• Benefits to authors?

Submitter enters ORCIDs instead of Authors details

• Publisher queries ORCID and returns prepopulated field for submitter to validate

• Need email and affiliation from ORCID

Incentives for authors

• “Make my life easier when I submit a paper”– remove the need to key in my up-to-date personal

information– remove the need for me to enter my co-authors

information

• “Help me manage my online presence and reporting needs”– my ORCID profile is automatically updated upon

publication of a new article– my other profiles read from ORCID– my publisher knows my obligations to my funder (ms

deposition)

Potential future services

• facilitate manuscript submission

• automate deposition of manuscripts in relevant repositories

• better recommendations to readers

• commenting notification

• micro-attribution, better credit for all contributions

Thank you!

v.kiermer@us.nature.com