Browsing by Subject "ORCID"

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    Graduate Student and Undergraduate Medical Student Adoption of ORCID: Establishing Benchmarks
    (Midwest Chapter/MLA 2024 Conference, 2024-10-11) MacIsaac, Olivia; Morgan, Teryn; Ramirez, Mirian; Odell, Jere D.
    Objective A key use case for ORCID at the university is to support early career researchers, including graduate students and medical students. Librarians at a university with a large medical school have promoted the adoption of ORCID. However, apart from occasional anecdotes, little is known about the outcomes of these efforts. In this study we establish an adoption rate for this population. This study aims to establish ORCID adoption rates among graduate students, providing a benchmark for future efforts. Methods We acquired a complete list of currently enrolled graduate students (2023-2024) from the registrar (n=8180). We randomized these records to create a sample of 375 students. We then coded this sample for the status of the student's ORCID account (unfound, found, likely found, and unable to verify). Results Across the sample we found that 8.5% of graduate students (n=32) had registered an ORCID with identifying information. Another 13% (n=50) of students in the sample appear to have created an ORCID record but have not shared enough data to fully affiliate them. However, this adoption rate varied widely between campus schools. Notably, the School of Medicine demonstrated a higher adoption rate, with 32% (22 out of 69) of sampled students having identifiable ORCIDs. Conclusions The School of Medicine, supported by the Medical Library, has achieved better adoption rates than other schools at the university. With these rates established, the libraries can identify approaches that have been successful and more widely implement them.
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    Tips to Leverage Your ORCID
    (2024-04-26) Dolan, Levi; Craven, Hannah J.; Ramirez, Mirian; Whipple, Elizabeth C.
    Introduction/Background: An effective scholarly presence means not only publishing research, but also connecting research outputs to an online professional identity. ORCID (Open Research and Contributor ID) is a not-for-profit organization that allows researchers to create a unique persistent identifier to organize their bibliography, datasets, grants, and other works. An ORCID is affiliation-agnostic and keeps researchers with similar names distinct, increasing attribution accuracy. Workshop Objectives: By connecting their ORCID profile to existing systems, researchers can benefit from automated updates that support validation and efficient presentation of their scholarly outputs. After introducing how to create an ORCID profile, this workshop will move beyond ORCID basics and walk through how to maximize the benefits of a centralized online presence for a researcher’s works. Methods: This workshop will focus on the steps for setting up connections with three major systems for populating ORCID profiles: CrossRef (an aggregator of metadata for scholarly literature publication outlets), DataCite (similar to CrossRef, but focused on data repositories), and Scopus (one of the most powerful scholarly publishing databases for managing author affiliation information). Attendees will participate in the hands-on processes needed to set up their ORCID profiles if needed, and to open these connections so that in the future they will not need to manually enter data for their profiles to be updated, minimizing maintenance time needed to maintain their scholarly presence. Learning Goals: Attendees can expect to leave this workshop with a robust persistent record of their research outputs. This will increase the findability and reusability of their research, which will provide avenues for greater scholarly impact. An ORCID profile is not a prerequisite for attending.