Why Persistent Identifiers Matte r to S&T Agencies

NSTC “Build ing Bridges Across the S&T Ente rprise” Confe rence | NIH Natcher Cente r, Be thesda , US | 13-14 June 2019

Laure l Haak, PhDExecutive Director, ORCID

https:/ /orcid .org/0000-0001-5019-3700@HaakYak

l.haak@orcid .org

The ability to uniquely identify contribu tors is a decep tive ly sim ple concep t which , if rea lized , cou ld enab le form s of rea l-tim e understand ing of scien tific re search tha t up to now have been extrem ely costly (if not im possib le ).

-Jona than Kram , Wellcom e Trust

Globally unique persistent iden tifie rs tha t specify the

pe rson , organ iza tion , activity, or re search asse t

to which a nam e re fe rs

To address th is issue , the globa l re search com m unity is adopting digital names

https:// iopscience .iop .org/a rticle /10.3847/2041-8213/ab0ec7

ORCID iDs and DOIs a re in use by thousands of journa ls, hundreds

of un ive rsitie s, and funders a round the world

• ORCID has been adop ted on a na tiona l sca le in 18 coun trie s

• The US ORCID consortium has over 100 m em bers• The US Departm ent of Energy just e stab lished a

consortium for its na tiona l labs

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Researcher

University

Gives permission to COLLECTiD and

access their record

User registers & manages ORCID record

Employment :XXX UniversitySource: XXX University (ID139)

ORCID record

CONNECTS affiliation

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Funding :YYY Agency, Grant #123Source: YYY Agency (ID45)

CONNECTSpublication

Works :Book, Chapter, 2016Source: ZZZ Publisher (DOI)

Publisher

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ORCID IDResearcher Name

Basic information• Other names• Email addresses• BiographyAccount settings

Affiliations, Activities, Resources

Controls visibility

Making Connections

US Agencies are using global IDs

ORCID membersEPA • DOE • FDA• NIH• Smithsonian•

USDA• USUHS

Many agencies are members of Crossref and DataCite and use DOIs for publications and datasets

Benefits accrue as identifiers and open infrastructure components are coordinatedwithin Agencies and sectors and across the research ecosystem

EVIDENCE OF INSTITUTIONAL VALUE

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