AN ORCID FOR

Who we are …UniKL started out with the amalgamation of seven (7)technical institutes into a entrepreneurialtechnical university in 2002.

ORCID @ UNIKL • February 2017 - PPM and MCC organized a talk on ORCID• Shared the information with the research committee (URPC) • Engaged with Research Center and ITD in a meeting the next

month• Highlight the benefits of ORCID in STAFOR – chaired by Dep.

President Academic and Technology• A circular was sent to all campus academicians encouraging the

registration of ORCID• Dep. President highlighted the importance of having ORCID during

his academic engagements with all campuses.• Incorporating the implementation of ORCID in upgrading the

university research information systems/ research portal, it was just in time approach to be aligned with the objectives.

Issues and Challenges

Generally, academics may see ORCID as ‘another level of bureaucracy’ resulting in a degree of resistance to using it.

Early career researchers tended to see the benefits of ORCID and embrace them more positively than established researchers and senior academics.

Academics expressed concern about duplication of effort in entering their information into numerous different systems. They often questioned what benefits ORCID offered over existing proprietary identifiers, such as Thomson Reuters ResearcherID and Scopus author ID, or profiling services such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate.

Dealing with the challenges

Developing a clear communication rollout plan for ORCID involving a multichannel approach involving

- email communication – monthly, - web -based guidance, in researcher portal- training sessions (librarians be the trainers) and - other advocacy approaches, - working together with ITD and CORI- and most importantly - Key to the success of the

projects is the support from the top management

No. of ORCID registration to date

600/ 1532 with ORCID – 40%

600/ 825 with ORCID in Scopus – 73%

THANK YOU pazilah@unikl.edu.my