ORCID : open science monitor case study

Opening up research processes and making the research cycle transparent are essential requirements of Open Science. This does not only involve an interoperable research infrastructure, which centres around researchers, their works and their respective affiliations, but also those institutions that have to maintain an overview of research output: libraries, research evaluators, and funding organisations. This leads to two central challenges: firstly, to have reliable means at hand for connecting researchers with their work (and with some other elements such as their affiliations, academic activities, societal activities, etc.); secondly, to ensure sustainable ways of showcasing linkages between researchers and works. Providing unique identifiers is a potential solution in this situation. ORCID is a registry that, in its core functionality, provides a unique identification number, the so-called ORCID ID. ORCID IDs are available for anyone who contributes to research, scholarship, and innovation; individuals sign up by creating a personal ORCID record. This case study has a look at the drivers, barriers, and impact of (using) ORCID.