Gail Clement & Laura Hammons Texas A&M University Establishing Scholarly Identity by Graduate Students: Results of the ORCID-ETD Integration Project at Texas A&M University

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 2 Project Goals Integrate ORCIDs with works of early career scholars, particularly ETDs Develop and deliver learning and outreach programs to encourage claiming and use of ORCID profiles by graduate students (and select post-doctoral fellows) To assess student uptake of/engagement in establishing their scholarly identity with ORCID

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 3 Timeline & Status: Fall 2013 ORCID Adoption and Integration grant secured; joined ORCID as a member. Secured administrative approval to mandate ORCIDs for graduate students Began sharing ORCID Integration plans with key stakeholder groups –Grad Student Council, Grad Deans, Council of Principal Investigators, Thesis Office, Texas Digital Library/Vireo User Group

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 4 Timeline & Status: Jan Technical team began delving into ORCID API and testing minting process Learning & Outreach Team developed communication plan, user support materials, and LibGuide for new and existing ORCID iD holders Marketing Dept. designed and produced promotional items, giveaways, and set up ORCID Café Press site

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 5 Timeline & Status: Feb 2014 ORCIDs minted for all 10,334 graduate students Outreach and training in earnest –Troubleshooting duplicate ORCIDs –Answering questions from confused Began meetings with Library Public Services staff to integrate ORCID support into their repertoire of services

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 6 Timeline & Status: Mid-2014 Tracking claiming and uptake Introduced ORCID Librarian office hours in Thesis Office Completed proof of concept pushing ETD from Vireo to ORCID Began working with Technical Team to design ORCID middleware app to ensure sustainability Began assessment of engagement

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 7 Why TAMU? Consistent with our public, land-grant mission National attention and public scrutiny of higher education Integrated with ETD submission workflow in Vireo Configurable settings in Vireo Admin Interface with features to validate and authenticate ORCiD Auto- populated from directory information or manual entry during student submission

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 8 Why TAMU? University benefits of ORCiD integration –Provide student level data –Track impact of graduate students’ work –Track career outcomes –Enhance effectiveness of VIVO Graduate student benefits of ORCiD integration –As early career professionals, able to maintain full scholarly records over career –Preparation for managing their scholarly identity with training

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 9 Uptake and Outreach Primary support services for referrals and self-help –LibGuide –FAQ database –Cookbook –Dedicated High-Tech Help available, conveniently High-touch help available, conveniently

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 10 Self-Help: Landing Pages

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 11 High Tech: ORCID Look-Up Tool

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 12 High Touch: Office Hours

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 13 Student Engagement 10,334 ORCiDs minted 21% Claimed w/in 9 days 10% Sample (200) of claimed ORCiDs 19% Enriched Profile areas enriched

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 14 Evidence of Impact I was in attendance last night at the Graduate Student Council meeting. Thank you for your presentation in regards to ORCiD. I am hoping to attend one of your workshops to register for ORCiD. Please let me know when they workshops are scheduled. Thank you, Doctoral Student, Ag Economics These services are good tools to make us more scientifically visible. Thanks and I really appreciate your hard work, Doctoral Student, Construction Engineering We currently have 47 people registered for this Wednesday’s ORCiD workshop. Please let me know if there is anything else we can help you with in preparation for the workshop. -- Office of Graduate and Professional Studies By the way, I've been mentioning ORCiD in scientific-writing classes and workshops for a while. And a few months ago, as part of my work with the AuthorAID project, I featured ORCiD as a Resource of the Week -- Professor, Integrative BioSciences Subject: today’s CVM-GSA attendance Official signed in attendance was 53!

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 15 Increasing Engagement

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 16 Increasing Engagement

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 17 Increasing Engagement

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 18 Lessons Learned Partnership between Office of Graduate and Professional Studies and University Libraries –Office of Graduate and Professional Studies facilitates connections to college graduate administrators, faculty, Graduate Student Council, and graduate students –University Libraries develops outreach materials, conducts presentations and trainings, IT development including integration into student records, etc.

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 19 Future Directions Push Vireo enhancements out to all institutions Additional student assessment Additional IT development of middleware (ORCiD App) Minting for other campus authors (e.g., faculty researchers, undergraduate researchers, etc.) Tracking of outcomes (e.g., VIVO)

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 20 Future Directions Implementation of VIVO to show advisor and advisee relationships; PhD theses of former TAMU graduate students; co-author networks