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Devin Soper, Director of the Office of Digital Research & Scholarship

Florida State University Libraries

dsoper@fsu.edu | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2667-4594

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Academic Analytics

(Institutional Research)

Pivot

(Research Office)

Institutional Repository

(Libraries)

Local Systems

Faculty Expertise System

(Faculty Development)

FSU obtained an ORCID institutional membership in 2018
Initial partnership was between the Libraries, Office of Faculty Development, and Office of Research - though it has since grown to include several other partners.
Institutional membership enables us to integrate up to five campus systems with ORCID
Integrations can be one-way or two-way: campus systems can either pull data from ORCID APIs, push data, or both
As you can see on this slide, we have several systems at FSU that are great candidates for integration, including …
If we are able to implement these integrations, we can significantly improve the interoperability of these systems, using ORCID as a kind of central data store
In this sense, ORCID has some of the features of a Research Information Management (or RIM) system, at least insofar as it can serve as a central data store and also has advanced tools for data harvesting and aggregation.
That said, it lacks many of the other bells and whistles of an enterprise-level RIM system, such as institutionally-branded faculty profiles, and built in research analytics.

Photo by Oleg Laptev on Unsplash

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Integrations

So, where are we at today, roughly two years after obtaining our institutional membership?

Well, our top-priority integration was with FSU’s faculty activity reporting system, as we knew that this integration could provide our faculty with an immediate benefit by streamlining the process of populating data in this system.

This integration took our Office of Faculty Development’s software engineer (.5 FTE) approximately six months to complete, and went live in December 2018.

The next priority was to integrate ORCID with FSU’s central IT directory, so that ORCID IDs could be stored with other key information such as researchers’ EMPLID, email, role, department, etc.

This work was carried out by campus IT staff and took some time to complete, but went live earlier this year.

This integration has also been an important step in terms of outreach, since campus IT also made the connection extremely prominent in the my.fsu.edu portal that our faculty, staff, and students use on a weekly or even daily basis for a variety of tasks.

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https://orcid.fsu.edu/

And perhaps this goes without saying, but outreach and faculty buy-in are absolutely essential here - integrating your systems with ORCID and developing tools for querying data from the ORCID members API is only useful if a large number of faculty have claimed and populated their ORCID profiles
This is why, as part of the integration with the central IT directory, we also launched a new website to house information about ORCID and serve as a central portal for researchers to register or connect their ORCID IDs.
Happy to report that approximately 1000 researchers connected their accounts in the month after this integration went live.
Looking ahead, we plan to continue our work on outreach to our campus community in addition to planning integrations with still more campus systems, with our grant submission system being the next likely target.