ORCID: an Australian story

Natasha Simons http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0635-1998 Research Support Community Day, Melbourne8 February 2016

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July 2014

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January 2016

Australian Consortium opens with 40 members made up of:• 36 universities• Australian Research Council• National Health and

Medical Research Council• CSIRO• Heart Research Institute

Laure Haak, ORCID & Heath Marks, AAF sign the Australian ORCID Consortium agreement at eResearch Australasia October 2015

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Australian ORCID Working Group

Some members of the ORCID WG at the April 2015 roundtable, Canberra

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Australian ORCID Working Group

The Working Group works closely with two major funding agencies.

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ORCID: an Australian story

First National ORCID

Roundtable

Development of Joint

Statement of Principles

Second ORCID Roundtable.

Release of Joint

Statement.

Development of a

Consortium Model

Draft Model release and call for EOI

Consortium opens with 38

members

CAULANDS

CAULANDSARMS

UA

CAULANDSARMS

UAAAF

CAUDIT

July 2014 April 2015Dec 2014 Aug 2015 Jan 2016

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Consortium benefits

In a nutshell:• Access to full features of

premium ORCID membership at heavily reduced price.

• Australian technical support - trained by ORCID

• Community support: webinars and resources, sharing of experiences and best practice Slide courtesy of Chris Chan at HKBU

https://www.haikudeck.com/orcidhkbu-education-presentation-c6kfRdEuZR

Where to from here?• Focus on institutional ORCID

rollout• Consortium members -

engagement via AAF• Sector-wide support &

engagement (whether Consortium member or not) - webinars, events etc.

• Learn from each other

Research Support Librarians have a key role to play!

‘Cid’ the fuzzy bug – part of the ORCID rollout toolkit at the University of Kent: http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/orcid/

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Key messages for researchers

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Next week in Canberra

February 15-16, 2016• International ORCID Outreach Meeting • Australian ORCID Consortium launch!

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Bookmark thisORCID blog: http://orcid.org/about/news

Twitter: @ORCID_Org

ORCID on slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/ORCIDSlides

Australian ORCID Consortium: http://aaf.edu.au/orcid

ORCID in Australia joint statements: http://www.ands.org.au/discovery/orcid.html

ANDS ORCID Webinar recordings:ANDS YouTube ORCID playlist: https://www.youtube.com/user/andsdata

Australian ORCID blog posts:ORCID in Australia: https://orcid.org/blog/924 ORCID and Open Access: http://aoasg.org.au/2015/09/28/orcid-giving-new-meaning-to-open-research/

Go hunting - there’s plenty of info out there!

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Acknowledgement

Australian National Data Service is funded by the Commonwealth under the NCRIS Program