Martin Fenner

Department of Hematology, Hemostaseology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation

Introduction to ORCID and Author Identifiers

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Initiative started in December 2009 with Business, Technical and Outreach Working Groups formed in early 2010.

Launched as non-profit organization with a Board of Directors in September 2010.

Launch of service planned for 2012.

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ORCID will work to support the creation of a permanent, clear and unambiguous record of scholarly communication by enabling reliable attribution of authors and contributors.

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ORCID will transcend discipline, geographic, national and institutional boundaries.

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Participation in ORCID is open to any organization that has an interest in scholarly communications.

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ORCID Participants by Country

197 Participants as of March 23, 2011

ORCID Participants by Country

United States 81United Kingdom 39Germany 17Australia 7Canada 5Spain 5

Other (3 %)

Government (4 %)

Assoc/Society (13%)

Non−Profit (14%)

Corporate (15%)

Publisher (16%)

Academic (36%)

ORCID Participants by Organization Type

197 Participants as of March 23, 2011

Access to ORCID services will be based on transparent and non-discriminatory terms posted on the ORCID website.

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Researchers will be able to create, edit, and maintain an ORCID ID and profile free of charge.

Researchers will control the defined privacy settings of their own ORCID profile data.

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All profile data contributed to ORCID by researchers or claimed by them will be available in standard formats for free download (subject to the researchers' own privacy settings) that is updated once a year and released under the CC0 waiver.

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ORCID Survey October 2010

All software developed by ORCID will be publicly released under an Open Source Software license approved by the Open Source Initiative.

For the software it adopts, ORCID will prefer Open Source.

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ORCID plans to license Researcher ID software from Thomson Reuters

First version would be based on that software

Disambiguation service would be added as next step

No decision yet when production system will be launched

ORCID identifiers and profile data (subject to privacy settings) will be made available via a combination of no charge and for a fee APIs and services.

Any fees will be set to ensure the sustainability of ORCID as a not-for-profit, charitable organization focused on the long-term persistence of the ORCID system.

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Collected $245,000 from 44 organizations in sponsorship drive December 2010 - March 2011

Grant from Mellon Foundation to explore business models for academic institutions March - September 2011

Membership fees planned for 2012

Gap funding required to pay for startup development in 2011-2012

ORCID will be governed by representatives from a broad cross-section of stakeholders, the majority of whom are not-for-profit, and will strive for maximal transparency by publicly posting summaries of all board meetings and annual financial reports.

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Current Board of Directors

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