ORCID IDS AND FUNDER

WORKFLOWS

Josh Brown

Director 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.

Publishers

requiring

ORCID iDs:

Science

EMBO

PLOS

Royal Society

ACS

eLIFE

Hindawi

IEEE

AGU

Rockefeller

Univ. Press

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 ORCIDto co-authorstoo

Publisher

Embed authors’ORCID in themetadata whenthe manuscriptis accepted

Crossref

Check authors’ORCID in the

metadata whenassigning DOIs

to newpublications

ORCID

Receive newpublication infofrom Crossrefand add toauthors’ ORCIDrecords

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 toinvestigators too

Funder

Embed reviewer’sORCID in the reviewand push review acknowledgement

ORCID

Receive new reviewinfo from funder andadd 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