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Distinguish Yourself with

Matt Huculak, Digital Scholarship Librarian

Inba Kehoe, Scholarly Communications Librarian

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A unique, persistent identifier for your scholarly activities

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AGENDA

  • WHO & WHAT IS ORCID?
  • BENEFITS OF ORCID
  • WHY ORCID
  • LOGIN / CREATE AN ID
  • POPULATE YOUR PROFILE

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WHO IS ORC ?

OPEN RESEARCHER AND CONTRIBUTOR ID

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  • Founded in 2010; service started in 2012
  • Non-profit, open
  • Global, interdisciplinary
  • Free for individuals
  • Creates a registry of unique, persistent identifiers (like ISBNs but for people)
  • Supported by UVic Office of Research

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BENEFITS OF ORC

  • Disambiguation
  • Discovery
  • Stays with you wherever you go–it’s yours
  • Funding bodies supporting it
  • Major publishers supporting it (and many now requiring it)
  • Major professional organizations supporting it
  • Record once, share often.

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ORCID – Widely Supported

There are currently 912 ORCID member organizations*, including:

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* August 2018

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ORCID – Disambiguation

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ORCID – Global Hub

Image adapted from: National Library of Singapore

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All of your scholarly history in one place

grants

education

publications

employment

you

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Let’s make our profile

https://orcid.org

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Sign in and Create Account Using UVIC Credentials

(don’t worry, you can always change your affiliation with a click of a button)

1. Click the “Sign In” Button

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If you are not affiliated with UVIC, you can click “Register now”

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Highlight “Institutional Account” & Choose UVIC from the list

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Use the UVIC sign in service

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Consent form to share your credentials using secure server

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Individual Sign On (If not a member of UVIC)

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Everyone registered?

  • Now let’s look at what a profile looks like

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ORCID Landscape– Manage Your Settings

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Account Settings - Visibility Preferences

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Manage Your Settings

Let’s change our entire profile to “private” while we build our page (we’ll change this again at the end).

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Fun fact: you can control privacy at the item level as well...

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Account Settings – Privacy at Global Level

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Account Settings – You control who can see you or access your account

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Filling Out Your ORCID

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Filling Out Your ORCID

Let’s add one item in our EDUCATION pane

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Adding Information Manually

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Filling Out Your ORCID

Let’s add one item in our EMPLOYMENT pane

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Adding Information Manually

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Adding Information Automatically

Let’s automatically add item(s) in our “Works” pane (publications, etc.)

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Adding Information Automatically

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Choose Your Discipline’s Aggregator

CrossRef?

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MLA?

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SCOPUS?

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You do you.

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And you can always link multiple databases

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Authorize the Wizard App

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“Add to ORCID” with one click (CROSSREF)

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Or, Add Your Publications Manually

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Why use the Wizards? Because they provide verifiable & sourced entries

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Filling Out Your ORCID

Let’s add one item to our Funding

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Add Your Grants to ORCID

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Authorize the Wizard App

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Select Item(s) Belonging to You

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Copy and Edit an Item if Database Information Is Incorrect

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Change the Privacy of Your Work(s)

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Add your other names to your profile

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Make your profile public

Don’t forget to make your profile public by going to the Account Settings page and changing your global privacy settings.

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Share Your ID on Your Website & Emails

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You control everything.

Export your information or delete with the click of a button in account settings

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Info on deletion: https://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/148970-deactivating-an-orcid-account

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Further Reading

Science magazine, “Introducing ORCID”

Science 19 May 2017:

Vol. 356, Issue 6339, pp. 691-692

DOI: 10.1126/science.356.6339.691

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Elsevier Blog, “Ten reasons to get - and use - an ORCID iD!”

August 25, 2017