JpGU meets ORCID

Yasuhisa Kondo

Vice Chair, Japan Geoscience Union Information System Committee

Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan

0000-0001-7670-4475

Japan Geoscience Unionhttp://jpgu.org

• A union of 50 Japanese associations in earth and planetary sciences, founded in 2005.

• More than 9,000 members(one of the large-scale academic communities in Japan)

Japan Geoscience Unionhttp://jpgu.org

• International partnerships with

• American Geophysics Union (AGU)

• European Geosciences Union (EGU)

• Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

JpGU Annual Meeting

Annual Meeting 2014

• 7,046 registered attendees

• 194 sessions in 5 days

• 2,428 oral presentations and 1,378 posters

• Twitter, Facebook, and JpGU app were used for unidirectional announcements.

Launch of the PEPS journal• JpGU’s open access & peer-

reviewede-journal, launched in 2013.

• Covering all fields in earth and planetary sciences.

• The editorial committee encourages JpGU members and international researchers to read articles and submit manuscripts.

Motivations to developa social network service

• To facilitate scientific interactions between JpGU members during annual meetings and pre-/post-meeting periods, and

• To promote contribution of JpGU members to the PEPS journal.

Our solution: My JpGU by

My JpGU – personal profile

Connected to ORCID

Connected to ORCID

Data synchronization

Data synchronization

Data synchronization

Also connected to researchmap,an online directory and SNS of researchers in Japan

researchmap.jp

My JpGU surveyMarch–September 2014

Mar 17-31

Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep0

1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 9,000

1,050

3,082

1,683

567 275 285

8,096

15,038 page views in total

Introduced in our online newsletter

My JpGU surveyVisitors came from…

Rank Country/region Sessions Percenta

ge

1 Japan 2,209 93.92%

2 United States 44 1.87%

3 Brazil 19 0.81%

4 Germany 16 0.68%

5 Netherlands 12 0.51%

6 Russia 6 0.26%

7 Taiwan 6 0.26%

8 France 4 0.17%

9 Indonesia 4 0.17%

10 South Korea 4 0.17%

My JpGU surveyUsers’ activity

• 52 users out of 8,316 registered users have edited their personal page.

• 34 users have added ORCID ID to their personal profile.

• 24 users have synchronized bibliographic records between My JpGU and ORCID.

We need further

promotion.

Why ORCID for JpGU?

• Internationality

• Interoperability

• Connectivity

Special thanks to

My JpGU is financially supported by a JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results.

Yasuhisa Kondo | @yaskondo | kondo @ chikyu.ac.jp

Why ORCID for JpGU?

• Internationality

• Interoperability

• Connectivity

Yasuhisa Kondo | @yaskondo | kondo @ chikyu.ac.jp

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