Adopting ORCID as a unique identifier will benefit all involved in scholarly communication

Arunachalam, Subbiah and Madhan, Muthu (2016) Adopting ORCID as a unique identifier will benefit all involved in scholarly communication. In: NATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNAL OF INDIA, 29 (4). pp. 227-234.

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Abstract

ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. Together with other persistent identifiers for scholarly works such as digital object identifiers(DOIs) and identifiers for organizations, ORCID makes research more discoverable. It helps ensure that one's grants, publications and outputs are correctly attributed. It helps the research community not just in aggregating publications, but in every stage of research, viz. publishing, reviewing, profiling, metrics, accessing and archiving. Funding agencies in Austria, Australia, Denmark, Portugal, Sweden and the UK, and the world's leading scholarly publishers and associations have integrated their systems with ORCID registry. Among the BRICS countries, China and South Africa are adopting ORCID avidly. India is yet to make a beginning. If research councils and funding agencies in India require researchers to adopt ORCID and link ORCID iDs to funding as well as tracking performance, it will help them keep track of the workflow. Journal editors can also keep track of contributions made by different authors and work assigned to different reviewers through their ORCID iDs.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	NATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNAL OF INDIA
Additional Information:	Copy right for this article belongs to the ALL INDIA INST MEDICAL SCIENCES, ANSARI NAGAR, NEW DELHI 110 029, INDIA
Department/Centre:	Centres under the Director > Archives and Publication Cell
Date Deposited:	31 Jan 2017 05:34
Last Modified:	31 Jan 2017 05:34
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/56181

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