Preparations for advocacy; webpage under development

We have now recruited a member of our Academic Liaison team to our project group, Martin Wilkinson. Martin is working with us on the development on a webpage containing key messages around ORCID as well as a range of FAQs. We've gone for a format that highlights 5 key reasons for getting an iD with a main theme of "Distinguish yourself".

We also want to embed a Google form in the webpage to gather information from researchers. This form will ask them, amongst other things, if they already have an ORCID iD and if so, what was there motivation for for getting one.

The webpage will contain information and instructions around registering for an iD via the ORCID website and then adding this into PURE 4.18.

Policy on the Publication of Research approved

Yippee! We've just heard that the University's Policy on the Publication of Research has been approved by Senate. This is really important to this project as the policy requires the use of author IDs and endorses ORCID for this purpose.

We want to stress the benefits of using ORCID to researchers but it is good to have the back-up that the policy provides.

Pure upgrade

We have now moved our live instance of Pure (Research Information System) to version 4.18.
V.4.18 has the ORCID functionality not present in earlier versions and necessary for completion of the ORCID project at York, so it's implementation is something of a relief. There was a potential cloud on the horizon as the connector that joins Pure to ePrints, and through which we populate our institutional repository, was not working as expected in the new instance of Pure. For a while there loomed the difficult decision between living without the connector or delaying the Pure upgrade but, thanks to the Pure support at Elsevier, the problem has now been resolved and Pure 4.18 is up and running, connector and all. 

Membership

University of York are now an ORCID member! We went for a Creator licence, Basic level membership.