Researcher Profiles, Identifiers and Social Networks: Maximise your Impact

What is ORCID?

ORCID stands for: Open Researcher and Contributor ID and is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create:

• An international, interdisciplinary, central registry of unique and persistent identifiers for individual researchers, and
• A way to link the identifiers with researchers' outputs and activities.

An ORCID identifier will help you to distinguish your research activities and outputs from those of other researchers with similar names, and make sure you get credit for your work.

ORCID identifiers are increasingly being used by:

• Journals and publishers. (See list of those requiring ORCID iDs for authors)
• Funding bodies (mandated by the NHMRC and ARC) 
• University repositories.

ORCID identifier provides a:

• Unique, persistent identifier which you can link to your other IDs such as your Scopus Author Identifier and Publons (ResearcherID)
• Profile page which can include your: list of publications, employment history, research interests and links to other profiles.

Please note: ORCID does not track citations and your ORCID profile will not include citation counts.

ORCID Requirements at the University of Melbourne: Academic Staff & Graduate Researchers

On 17 November 2016 the University Executive endorsed a compulsory ORCID for all University of Melbourne academic staff.

All academic staff should:

• Register for an ORCID if they do not already have one
• Connect their ORCID to their Minerva Elements account.

Taking these steps will:

• Facilitate the disambiguation of researchers and research outputs
• Enable linking and reuse of high quality, persistent data (e.g. publications, grants)
• Reduce the number of outputs that need to be manually claimed in Minerva Elements

For more information see the ORCID Registration and Connection page on the Staff Hub.

University of Melbourne staff can access the ORCID guide for a comprehensive guide to setting up an ORCID and linking it to Minerva and other research identifiers.

All University of Melbourne graduate researchers are required to include an ORCID on the title page of their thesis. See Preparation of Graduate Research Theses Rules.

Academic staff and graduate researchers should add their ORCID when submitting:

• article manuscripts to editors (and publishers' article submission systems)
• grant applications to funding agencies (eg ARC & NHMRC)
• thesis, conference papers, presentations and posters
• books and book chapters manuscripts to publishers

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How to register for an ORCID identifier

Registration for an ORCID identifier is free and fast.

Academic staff and graduate researchers (Doctorate, PhD, Masters Research) should register via Minerva Elements. For further instructions visit the ORCID Registration and Connection page on Staff Hub. 

Undergraduate, Honours and Coursework Masters students should register at orcid.org 

NOTE: If you have more than one university email address, it is important that you make sure that your ORCID profile has all your email addresses associated with it to avoid duplicate ORCID identifiers being created.

You can then link your ORCID identifier to, and import information from, other sources such as: 

• Scopus Author Identifier,
• Publons (ResearcherID),
• CrossRef, and
• Australian National Data Service (ANDS).

Once you have registered you can include your ORCID identifier:

• On your webpage,
• When you submit your thesis, publications or apply for grants, and 
• In any research workflow to ensure you get credit for your work.

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ARC RMS and your ORCID profile (Keeping your ORCID profile up to date)

If you are applying for a grant you will need to include your ORCID. The ARC have integrated ORCID with their RMS, enabling researchers to  provide a curated list of publications with a few clicks, rather than providing lengthy documents. 

Ensure that your ORCID profile reflects your publication output accurately at grant time by:

• Exporting records from your Minerva Elements profile via BibTex (see instructions below)
• Ensuring that your ORCID is linked to your Scopus and/or  Publons (ResearcherID) profiles - if your journal articles are indexed in either of these, your profile will be automatically populated. 

Follow the instructions provided by ORCID on importing BibTeX files

Importing records to ORCID from Minerva Elements

Go to your Minerva Elements record https://minerva-elements.unimelb.edu.au/login.html?returnurl=default.html

Click on the link to your publications

Select individual publications, or all of them

Click on the Export button

Select BibTeX from the options

Follow the instructions to import a BibTeX file into ORCID

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Import records from Google Scholar to ORCID

It's very simple to import records from your Google Scholar profile into your ORCID profile.

• Go to https://scholar.google.com.au/
• Click "My profile"
• Select the publications that you want to export
• Click Export  
• Select BibTex
• Go to File - Save Page As save the page as a .txt file

Go to ORCID

• Click +Add Works
  • Import BibTex
    • Choose file
    • Select the .txt file
    • Open
  • You can then save all the records, or delete any you don't wish to appear on your profile.