Dear Colleagues,
As interdisciplinary research increases, the volume and diversity of scholarly information will increase in tandem. With this in mind, it is important that your work is easily distinguishable and visible to funders, publishers, scholarly societies, and other researchers, and creating or connecting your ORCID iD will help us create a complete bibliographic record of your research.
As you are aware, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is an open, non-profit, community-based tool that provides scholars with a unique persistent digital identifier. ORCID ensures that scholarly societies, publishers, and funders can quickly find and distinguish your work from materials created by researchers with similar names. The tool has been implemented across institutions and disciplines around the world, and most publishers are now requiring ORCID iDs.
To better support faculty members in connecting their research to the University, we have improved the process for connecting or creating your ORCID iD. The following email outlines changes made to the UM ORCID website. The new process is seamless and takes less than a few minutes to complete.
At this time, we are encouraging all University of Miami researchers and scholars—which includes faculty, postdocs, and graduate students—to do the following by March 6, 2023.
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Create an ORCID iD, make it visible, and connect it to Scholarship@Miami.
Or, if you already have an ORCID,
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Connect your ORCID with the University of Miami.
Both actions can be completed on the University Libraries’ ORCID@UM website. Click, “start here,” and follow the prompts.
In addition to streamlining the ORCID@UM website, we are expanding the breadth of information that faculty can share on their people profile pages. We will release more information about the new people profile features in the coming weeks. Our goal is to help each of you raise the level of discovery for your work, while providing a comprehensive view of your scholarly activities online.
If you have any questions about ORCID or the sign-up process, please contact Angela Clark-Hughes at a.clark@miami.edu.
Regards,
Charles Eckman
Dean and University Librarian
Erin Kobetz
Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship
Guillermo (Willy) Prado
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School |
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