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Implementing the ORCID ID System at the University of Pittsburgh
OSCP Lunch and Learn #20, 5 March 2015
Communications Group

2. Let’s watch a video! https://vimeo.com/orcidvideos/whatisorcid
So what is ORCID?

3. ORCID: What is it? Open Researcher and Contributor ID
16-digit number that uniquely identifies and represents you and your research
“A DOI for you and your research”
A way for researchers to identify themselves
A way for researchers to connect with their research
“A hub connecting the research landscape”

5. Researcher benefits of ORCID
Credit where credit is due
Makes it easier for others to find your work and attribute it to you
Common name? Name changes? Name variations? No problem!
Portable: Your ORCID ID goes with you wherever you go

6. Researcher benefits Save time, save keystrokes
Minimizes time spent entering data
Helps when submitting for publication
Helps when applying for grants
Compliance

7. Researcher benefits All the cool kids have one!
Most widely adopted, cross-platform identifier
Publishers: ACS, APA, Nature, PLoS, Springer, Wiley, and more
Funders: National Institutes of Health, Autism Speaks
More “global” than other researcher ID systems
Populate local systems to support networking, collaboration, and reporting

8. Institutional benefits of ORCID
More easily showcase scholarly output
By department
By school
By university/institution
Populate local systems to support networking, collaboration, and reporting
Automate administrative reporting

9. Why are we doing this? All of the above
Ongoing effort to put ourselves in scholarly spaces
To facilitate faculty research efforts
To facilitate university assessment and compliance needs
To understand and be beneficial to the life cycle of research

10. ORCID as an organization
Nonprofit, community-driven effort to create and maintain an international system of researcher IDs
Governance structure
No data buying and selling
No restrictions
Works with all possible publishers and funding agencies
Trusted parties
Trusted parties have to meet ORCID’s standards
User can allow or refuse to share data with ORCID’s trusted parties

11. Data and privacy Information in an ORCID profile is non-sensitive
Profile data is available from other sources
Users can set certain information to private—including their IDs
Users can provide trusted parties with access to their information

12. ORCID@Pitt implementation project
Pilot project with the Swanson School of Engineering
Faculty will register with ORCID to create their IDs
Pitt will become a trusted party
Facilitates research needs and connectivity
Facilitates assessment and compliance
Registration done through a web-based application
Registrant logs in with Pitt credentials
Registration fields prepopulate with information from CDS

13. Future plans
Eventual rollout to all Pitt faculty, postdocs, and graduate students
School by school, department by department

14. Implementation and communication timeline
FY 15 strategic option
January-April 2015
ORCID web application development
Communications and outreach planning
April-May 2015
Web app finalized
Trusted party status
SSOE pilot project
July 2015
School of Medicine residents
School of Dental Medicine residents
August 2015
New faculty orientation
New faculty orientation—Health Sciences
Fall 2015
Rollout to additional schools & depts. (schedule in development)

15. Website Under development To be finalized soon
Initial registration will be through the ORCID website (March-April 2015)
Afterwards, registration will be done through the ORCID web application (mid-April )

16. ORCID profiles
Jeff Wisniewski
Lauren Collister

17. D-Scholarship@Pitt & ORCID
Advanced search
Displays in individual records

18. ULS E-Journal Publishing & ORCID
Collister, L. (2013). Detection of Deception in a Virtual World. Linguistic Evidence in Security, Law, and Intelligence, 1(1). doi:

19. A recent example

20. Your turn Register for an ORCID ID
Please use your pitt.edu address to register
Add your information and additional identifiers
Where might you use your ORCID ID?

21. Still your turn—Q&A

22. Thank you!
OSCP Lunch and Learn Implementing the ORCID ID System at the University of Pittsburgh
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