How to take advantage of ORCID in institutional repositories

Workshop at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Workshops and Tutorials

ORCID provides a means of uniquely and unambiguously identifying authors and contributors involved in the creation of materials in repositories. Worldwide, a number of universities are among the early adopters of ORCID and are planning to use ORCID data to maintain their institutional repositories. In the UK, the researcher identifier task group opted for ORCID as the best shared solution for researcher identifiers. Building on this, Jisc is conducting a pilot project to enable UK universities to explore the potential and take advantage of the identifier system provided by ORCID. The project will help to streamline the ORCID implementation process by producing case studies, guidance and recommendations which will be shared with the community. As part of this project, institutions will produce examples of how to implement ORCID in repository management practices and platforms. The aim of this session is to share information about the UK’s developing agreement on the use of ORCID for research systems and experiences, lessons learned and good practice of how ORCID can be implemented, supported and utilised in institutional repositories based on the examples of the Jisc ORCID pilot project which includes use in repositories and research information management systems.