The Web of Science uses these author IDs to connect records written by the same author under variations of their name (sometimes omitting middle initials). Also useful for women who might publish under different names after marrying (or unmarrying).
_____________________________________________ Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Director Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Associate Professor NSF UWF Faculty ADVANCE Scholar School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences University of West Florida 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514 – 5751 Phone: (850) 857-6355 or 473-7435 [email protected] CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/cutla/ Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:26 AM, MiguelRoig <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > A colleague urged her friends to join ORCID: http://about.orcid.org/, but > I really do not much more about it beyond this short Wikipedia piece: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID, > > "*ORCID* (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary alphanumeric > code <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphanumeric_code> to uniquely identify > scientific <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist> and other academic > authors > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_authorship>.[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID#cite_note-Nature09-1> > [2] > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID#cite_note-ORCID-2>[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID#cite_note-Nature12-3> > This addresses the problem that a particular author's contributions to > the scientific literature<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_literature> > can be hard to electronically recognize as most personal > names<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_name> > are not unique, they can change (such as with marriage), have cultural > differences in name order, contain inconsistent use of first-name > abbreviations and employ different writing > systems<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_system>. > It would provide for humans a persistent identity — an "author DOI" — > similar to that created for content-related entities on digital networks by > digital object > identifiers<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier> > (DOIs).[4] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID#cite_note-4> > > The ORCID organization offers an open and independent registry intended to > be the *de facto* standard for author identification in science and > related academic publishing<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_publishing>. > On 16 October 2012, ORCID launched its registry services > [5]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID#cite_note-launchORCID-5> > [6] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID#cite_note-6> and started issuing > user identifiers.[7] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID#cite_note-7>" > > > Sounds to me like the author's equivalent of an article's DOI. Have any of > you heard of it? Any comments would be welcome. > > > MIguel > > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13144.1572ed60024e708cf21c4c6f19e7d550&n=T&l=tips&o=22697 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-22697-13144.1572ed60024e708cf21c4c6f19e7d...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > > > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=22699 or send a blank email to leave-22699-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
