Outreach/Publicity

• Make your ORCID profile publicly visible and thereby increase the visibility of your research and publications. 

• Make your ORCID available through social media accounts, digital signatures, blogs and webpages. 

• Add your ORCID to your manuscripts and grant applications.

ORCID is often required by academic publishers for submitting articles and by founding agencies for applying for grants. Sooner or later you will be asked to provide your ORCID. But ORCID also has several advantages for researchers:

1. With ORCID you can prevent your name from being confused, for example if you have published under maiden name, when only your initials are mentioned in the publication, or if non-Roman characters occur in your name. With common surnames (Smith, de Vries), ORCID helps you to distinguish yourself from your academic colleagues.

2. Linking your research output to your ORCID increases the findability of your researcher profile, your work and your activities.

3. When you have worked at different institutions, your publications are found in different institutional repositories. ORCID profile is intended to show your entire career in one digital place.

4. In some cases, ORCID can save you time building your profile. When your publications or datasets have a DOI link, ORCID supports finding your output in various databases, indexes and repositories, and links them automatically.

You go to the ORCID platform and follow several easy steps:

1. Registration: enter your name and email addresses. ORCID recommends using at least two email addresses to expand login options. This prevents you from losing access to your account, for example together with your (institutional) email address.

2. ORCID checks whether your account already exists. You may be presented with a list of names and asked to confirm that none of these profiles are yours.

3. You choose one of the options for the visibility of your account. You certainly want your profile, your publications and achievements to be visible to everyone. Your email addresses will always remain invisible.

Names – add here all versions of your names reported on your publications, e.g. Peter de Jonge, P. de Jonge, Peter W. de Jonge, Peter Wouter de Jonge, P De Jonge, etc. 

Biography – this is not a CV, but a short description of your interest, projects and career, think of a short bio that you often need to add at the end of academic papers 

Keywords – add keywords that describe your research interest and research activities. With these keywords you can be found in ORCID Registry 

Activities – add your CV, just like in your LinkedIn profile: employment (institutions and positions), education, memberships, grants, awards and prizes.

ORCID profile shows the metadata of your publications and links this information to an original source. If your publication is Open Access available, others can find a full text of your publication via a link. So you cannot upload full-text publications to your profile. 

Publications can be added to your account in several ways (functions):

1. Search & link – the best and fastest way to obtain correct and secure metadata from other systems and sources, such as Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef Metadata Search, OpenAire or DataCite.

2. DOI – individual publications that have a DOI link can be added directly

3. PubMed ID – In PubMed articles are given internal numbers, for example PMID: 26891021.

4. BibTeX – Import publications from Google Scholar. You do this in the following steps: log in to Google Scholar, search for your own publications, add the publications to My Library (using the SAVE function under each publication), export existing publications in BibTex, upload the existing files in ORCID

5. Adding manually – time-consuming and prone to errors, but necessary when a publication has no DOI link, suitable for popular scientific research output and scientific output without a DOI link.

Publons is een platform binnen Web of Science waar onderzoekers een persoonlijk profiel kunnen aanmaken om eigen wetenschappelijke prestaties en impact te tonen. Naast de publicaties kun je informatie delen over de citaties van je werk en jouw H-index. Bovendien krijg je mogelijkheid om andere wetenschappelijke prestaties te tonen, zoals door jou geschreven peer-reviews of lidmaatschappen van wetenschappelijke redacties.  

Scopus Author ID wordt automatisch gemaakt door Elsevier wanneer je publicaties worden geïndexeerd in de databank.Ook worden je publicaties automatisch toegevoegd aan je profiel. In Scopus kun je basis metrics en statistieken zien voor je wetenschappelijke output, maar dat betreft natuurlijk alleen de artikelen gepubliceerd in journals geïndexeerd in Scopus.

Wanneer je een Google Scholar account hebt, kun je aan je profiel je publicaties toevoegen. In Google Scholar worden je publicaties voorzien van metrics.   

Social networks voor onderzoekers. In deze platforms kun je full-tekst publicaties uploaden en beschikbaar maken voor anderen. Let op: wanneer je full-tekst publicaties in ResearchGate of Academia.edu wilt uploaden, moet je de auteursrechten van de uitgevers in acht nemen. Weet je niet zeker welke versie van je manuscript en wanneer je deze mag uploaden, vraag dan advies aan een informatiespecialist in de bibliotheek. Sinds enige tijd kun je op ResearchGate een DOI toekennen aan je publicaties. Wees voorzichtig hiermee: je doet het niet wanneer je publicatie reeds van een DOI voorzien is door de uitgever. Een ‘persistent identifier’ moet uniek zijn en één digitaal object mag er dus maar één hebben.