Use the ORCID US Community Planning Worksheet to keep notes as you start to plan.
Step 1: Stakeholder Support
Build a business case:
To get the most value from your ORCID integration(s), you'll likely need support from key stakeholders across your institution with an understanding of the
ORCID benefits for a research institution, including the ability to:
- Reduce administrative burden via automated, interoperable workflows (enter once, re- use often)
- Assess and measure impact by maintaining connections with affiliated researchers' activities (even after they leave the institution)
- Control appearance of institution name and assert trustworthy affiliations onto individuals’ ORCID records
- Help your affiliated researchers manage name disambiguation, keep track of their contributions and affiliations, and save time
Considerations:
- ORCID records can contain information about your researchers’ education, employment, funding, works and other contributions. How might your institution benefit from gathering and asserting this kind of data and activities?
- What efficiencies or cost savings could be gained?
- How will you assess the impact of your integration(s)?
Identify stakeholders:
Strategic ORCID integrations often require planning with multiple stakeholders, and the best approach will vary based on your local context. Two general patterns have emerged for strategic ORCID planning: 1) forming a cross-institutional ORCID group to plan for comprehensive, organization-wide adoption, and 2) forming a library-centric ORCID group to spearhead ORCID integration in library systems that can then be used to demonstrate the value of ORCID to other organizational stakeholders. Common stakeholders at a research institution include: