Abstract
Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is a community-driven non-profit organization that provides an open registry of persistent identifiers for researchers and scholars. The mission of ORCID is to address the name ambiguity problem in research and scholarly communication. ORCID works with the research community to embed identifiers in research workflows: grant applications, manuscript submissions, association membership renewal, meeting abstract submission, everywhere that a person can be connected with a research or scholarly contribution. This article describes ORCID, and its adoption by the research community, and provides examples of how ORCID identifiers are being integrated by organizations throughout the community and becoming part of the metadata on a diverse set of documents. Ultimately, the goal of ORCID is to improve discoverability, reduce repetitive data entry, and thereby allow researchers and organizations more time to focus on research and scholarly pursuits.
Highlights
Researchers undertake a number of relatively standard tasks during the research process
Lacking the ability to link research and researchers, Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) works with the research community to embed these identifiers contributors and in research workflows: grant applications, manuscript submissions, works.”
The Alfred P Sloan Foundation has awarded ORCID a grant to assist associations and universities with their integration plans.[3]. Integration demonstrations from these projects will be showcased in May 2014, at the ORCID Outreach meeting to be held in Chicago, IL.[4]
Summary
Researchers undertake a number of relatively standard tasks during the research process. A lot of the same information is required each time they undertake these tasks; to date, this has typically been manually re-entered each time, which is time consuming and can result in inconsistencies. These inconsistencies – for example, in whether an author’s full name is given or just initials, or how his/her institutional affiliation is given, or if the last name has changed – mean that it is hard for interested organizations, such as institutions or funders, to access and assess the full record for a specific individual or institution. “Researchers ... question why they have to enter the same information over and over again ...”
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