Transcript ORCiD implementation @ UQ

Heather Todd
Director, Client Services, UQ Library
Researcher ID
 Pilot project with Thomson-Reuters to
develop a service that would
◦ Bulk register UQ academics for RIDs
◦ Provide UQ with access to the RID accounts for batch upload and
download of publication data
◦ Initial phase of the project involved working with TR to develop
appropriate workflows
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Excellent source of accurate
publication metadata when
limiting imported records to
those with a WoS identifier
Allows for
validating/correcting existing
eSpace records
Efficient for importing
publication data for new staff
(if they are in disciplines with
good WoS coverage)
High Value
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High Quality
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Bulk registration is not an efficient process
 Very low completion rates
ResearcherID integration is now done on a caseby-case basis:
◦ managed by UQ eSpace staff on request from UQ
academics (or on their behalf) via email
◦ UQ eSpace imports new WoS publications into eSpace
weekly from linked ResearcherID accounts and links
those papers to UQ researchers without human
intervention
◦ Can initiate import of WoS publications in linked
ResearcherID accounts at any time
◦ Can upload eSpace publications to linked ResearcherID
accounts (though this is not done very often).
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Asked liaison librarians to work with researchers
to clean up Scopus ID’s - mixed success
Subscribed to SciVal in late 2014
Working on a project to clean up researchers –
started with those with known name issues
and/or high H index.
This has proved to much easier – more efficient
and faster turnaround from Elsevier
Key Learning – researchers will not do this
themselves unless they see a benefit
Only ResearcherID is fully integrated
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UQL took out premium ORCiD Membership mid 2014
(funded from the Library Collection Budget and supported
by the ODVCR)
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Developing an application to allow UQ researchers to
manage their author identifiers
Author identity management will
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allow for high quality metrics-based reporting
provide researchers will a rich source of article level metrics
based on integrated data
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Users can log into any of the following :
◦ UQ eSpace (institutional repository)
◦ UQ Author Statistics App via UQ eSpace
◦ UQ Library website personalised home page
Users can easily see if they have signed up to author identifiers
Note: name of researchers have been deleted in this slide
1. API sends user to ORCiD
2. User logs in and then redirects information re their
ORCiD back to UQ via the API
3. ORCiD then included in their UQ eSpace author profile
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Researcher details will be pre-populated
from UQ’s HR data – researcher may have to
fill in any missing information
The API will create an ORCiD account and
will send the researcher an email which they
have to claim the account in 10 days.
ORCiD then included in UQ eSpace author
profile.
1. API will search ORCiD for the researcher’s name and return possible
matches
2. Researcher will select one and then the API will send user to ORCiD
3. User logsUser logs in and then redirects information (ORCiD) back to UQ
via the API
4. ORCiD then included in author profile
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Created several hooks to make it easy
Users never have to enter in their ORCiD number
Soft launch – will target high profile researchers
and all new researchers as part of induction
process
Will encourage all RHD students to create an
ORCiD – part of our scholarly publishing program
Work with the ODVCR to incorporate into
HERDC, ERA and various training programs eg
Essential Knowledge for Research Management
Seminar
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Dr Amberyn Thomas – Director, Scholarly
Communications and Digitisation Service, UQ
Library
Mr Cameron Green, Senior Developer, UQ
Library