ORCID IDS AND FUNDER WORKFLOWS

Josh BrownDirector of Partnerships

j.brown@orcid.org orcid.org/0000-0002-8689-4935

ORCID FOR FUNDERS WEBINAR | 8 MARCH 2017

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WHAT IS ORCID?• An identifier for researchers• A registry• A set of standard procedures for connecting researchers to their affiliations and activities• A committed community building connectors• An international-scale open research effort

ORCID’s vision is a world where all who participate in research, scholarship, and innovation are

uniquely identified and connected to their contributions

and affiliations across time, disciplines, and borders.

THE ORCID COMMUNITY• Over 3.1 million researchers • 620+ members from 40 countries, including national consortia in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Taiwan, the UK, and 3 regional consortia in the US• Over 250 integrations in each sector of the research community

INTEGRATIONS BY SECTOR

ORCID’s vision is a world where all who participate in research, scholarship, and innovation are

uniquely identified and connected to their contributions across disciplines, borders, and

time.

Over 3000 journals are collecting ORCID iDs from authors, including requirements by American Chemical Society, American Geophysical Union, eLIFE, EMBO, IEEE, PLOS, Royal Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, Science, and Wiley.

“Over 10,000 authors have used our manuscript submission system since we launched the requirement in January. We have received only one complaint.” --Brooks Hanson, AGU

ORCID AUTO-UPDATE

Author

• Link own ORCID to author profile

• Add ORCID to co-authors too

Publisher

Embed authors’ ORCID in the metadata when the manuscript is accepted

CrossrefCheck

authors’ ORCID in the

metadata when

assigning DOIs to new publications

ORCID

Receive new publication info from Crossref and add to authors’ ORCID records

Notified via email

• Automatic update of ORCID and any connected system (such as a funder reporting site) means less time doing reporting tasks and more time for research• Accurate attribution means improved discoverability in publication databases and more reliable citation statistics

WHY DO FUNDERS CARE?• Streamline application process by pulling information from ORCID• Ensure accurate citation of award (both grant numbers and organization name) by pushing award information into ORCID record• Enable real-time reporting by using ORCID notification API• Recognize your reviewers, too!

GRANT REVIEW WORKFLOW

Researcher

• Link their ORCID to own account

• Add ORCID to investigators too

Funder

Embed reviewer’s ORCID in the review and push review acknowledgement

ORCID

Receive new review info from funder and add to researchers’ ORCID records

Notified via email

The ability to uniquely identify contributors is a deceptively

simple concept which, if realised, could enable forms of real-time

understanding of scientific research that up to now have been extremely costly (if not

impossible).--Jonathan Kram, Wellcome Trust

PARTICIPATING FUNDERSNational funding agencies are using ORCID in their grants management systems including the National Research Foundation (ZA), Science Foundation Ireland, National Institutes of Health (US), National Science Foundation (US), Research Councils UK, and the Australian Research Council.

WHAT DOES IT COST?• Individual non-profit organizations• Basic: $4000 (read-write-update)• Small Premium: $8000 (notifications and more

API credentials)• Consortia (groups of 5 or more): Pricing depends on size of consortia. For a group of 40+, the total cost would be $135,000. Split evenly, this is less than $4000 per organization for premium membership.

GETTING STARTED• Talk to your colleagues about their experiences.• Ask your grant management system vendor if they support ORCID.• Set up a webinar with our support team.• Determine when/where to collect ORCID iDs – during application for

PIs, at award for all supported, at completion of review for reviewers. Consider pulling information from ORCID to populate components of the form.

• Make sure to request permissions to write award information into awardee records.

• Store iD in your system, publish with award, and update awardee records.

• Use the notification API to receive push updates when your awardees publish papers or datasets.

Integration Process

Technically, integrating ORCID involves adding <person ID> and <source> fields to data models, mapping to the ORCID API, and implementing OAuth and RESTful calls.Socially, it is critical that researchers are engaged in the process.

http://members.orcid.org

With hundreds of our members globally building ORCID identifiers into their systems, as well as some funders and publishers now requiring ORCID iDs, researchers are increasingly likely to encounter ORCID in their day-to-day life. We developed the Collect and Connect program to streamline the integration process and foster a shared user experience. This ensures researchers and our members understand what ORCID is and why and how to engage.

COLLECT AND CONNECT!

http://orcid.org/content/collect-connect

FUNDERS DRIVE GOOD PRACTICE• LEAD BY EXAMPLE• SHARE DATA FOR RE-USE• RE-USE DATA WHEREVER POSSIBLE• TELL THE COMMUNITY WHAT YOU NEED - AND LISTEN TO THEIR NEEDS