The ORCID US Community has made a lot of progress in the last year since this group was formed. This is our second newsletter, featuring updates from across the community over the last several months. To contribute to future newsletters, please email orcidus@lyrasis.org.
Community Snapshot
- Member institutions = 117
- Member ORCID activity:
- 49% of members have integrated ORCID with one or more systems (77 live system integrations at 57 institutions)
- 51% of members are in planning and/or development stages of ORCID system integration
- All members are promoting ORCID to their affiliated researchers
Survey: Webinar/Call Topics of Interest
To help plan for the next series of webinars and community calls for the ORCID US Community, please complete this brief survey (5 min.) to give your input by June 30, 2019.
ORCID US Community Awards
The first round of winners (2018-2019) for the “ORCID US Community Awards” have been identified, to recognize and encourage participation, sharing, and achievements in the ORCID US Community. We will have another round of awards next year, with winners announced in May 2020; see award category details and more information.
Congratulations to this year’s Award Winners:
- “Most Active” individual = Elena Kazakova, Senior Business Analyst, University of Colorado Boulder with 6 posts in the ORCID US Community discussion forum
- “Most Helpful” individual = Jason Ronallo, Department Head, Digital Library Initiatives, North Carolina State University. Nomination: “Jason has been incredibly informative and generous in sharing his work with the community, and with [my institution] specifically when we have asked for examples for a similar ORCID connector implementation.”
- Institutional Involvement” = Tie between Stanford University and Yale University, with 8 individuals from each institution plugged into the ORCID US Community discussion forum
- “Institutional Achievement” = the following member institutions have released custom ORCID integrations this year:
- Florida State University – integration with Faculty Expertise & Advancement System
- Johns Hopkins University – integration with internal publication list generator application
- Mississippi State University – integration with MSU Faculty Authors VIVO application
- North Carolina State University – integration with Citation Index application
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – integration with CILogon
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center – integration with central ID management system
New Community Resources
- ORCID US Outreach Planning Guide
- Common Systems & ORCID: see Technical Support page
- Value of ORCID one-pager for administrators
- ORCID US Webinars:
- Community Calls:
- ORCID US Community Blog:
Membership Updates
The ORCID US Community has reached 117 members!
- See full list of ORCID US Community member institutions
New Members since January 2019:
- Brandeis University
- California Digital Library
- Dartmouth College
- Drexel University
- Harvard Medical School
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Oregon State University
- Southern Methodist University
- Tulane University
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- University of Rhode Island
What else are members up to?
Presenting on ORCID:
- Liz Bernal of Case Western University presented at the Library Assessment Conference 2018: https://twitter.com/mgszajewski/status/1070358749150359552
- Chris Cox of Clemson University presented on ORCID to the Clemson Provost council: https://twitter.com/chriscoxlibrar1/status/1070494318278909953
- Jason Ronallo (North Carolina State University), Karen Estlund (Pennsylvania State University), and Carmelita Pickett (University of Virginia) presented ORCID case studies at the 2019 Coalition for Networked Information spring meeting.
- Jane Scott of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center presented an ORCID-themed poster at the 2019 Medical Library Association meeting
Promoting ORCID to researchers:
- Annie Johnson of Temple University: https://twitter.com/anniekjohn/status/1070312050059042817
- Claudia Holland, formerly of Mississippi State University: https://twitter.com/depechesouth/status/1107674640862887936?s=11
In Case You Missed It:
- ORCID for scientists – article on the benefits of ORCID as a persistent global identifier for scientists
- First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole – IOPscience – ORCID iD displays in action (show full author list)
- Connected Research! | ORCID – case study of one researcher connected to all stakeholders in the research and scholarly communication ecosystem