Libraries as Consumers and Creators of Persistent Identifiers
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The document discusses the role of libraries in utilizing and promoting persistent identifiers such as DOIs and ORCIDs to support research. It outlines how libraries educate users on accessing e-resources and emphasizes the importance of compliance tracking and repository promotion. Additionally, it addresses the challenges of identifying researchers across various institutions and the need for collaboration in creating and managing researcher profiles.
Libraries as Consumers and Creators of Persistent Identifiers
- 1. Libraries as Consumers and Creators of Persistent Identifiers Hillary Corbett, Northeastern University SSP Annual Meeting | June 2, 2016
- 2. Librarians β€οΈ persistent identifiers! PS 3525 M52 1973 a 142.780973 C826e (OCoLC) 576470108 LCCN: 58-8670 Accession number: 481516 ISSN: 2163-0828
- 3. β¦We REALLY β€οΈ them. β Verso title page Inside back cover β (not the same book)
- 4. How Libraries Engage with Persistent Identifiers As research supporters: β’ Educate students/researchers/faculty to use βpermalinksβ to licensed/purchased e-resources β for citations, course readings, etc. β’ Specific usage will determine whether we advise using a DOI or a URL that includes our proxy server information β’ Promote our repository as a place where deposited items get a persistent ID β’ Help track compliance with funder mandates As publishers: β’ Create DOIs for journal articles and other materials β’ Create handles for objects in institutional repositories β’ Participate in development work to integrate ORCIDs in repository and publishing platforms
- 5. Supporting our Authors: Whatβs Missing β’ How many Northeastern researchers haveβ¦ β’ A Researcher ID? A SCOPUS ID? An ORCID? β’ How do we find this out? β’ Not always easy to search by institutional affiliation β¦Northeastern University (Boston USA), Northeastern University (Shenyang, China), North-Eastern Federal University (Yakutsk, Russia), Northeastern Illinois University, Northeastern Ohio University, Northeastern State University (Oklahoma), NorthWESTERN Universityβ¦ β’ Why do we want to know? β’ Outreach to departments with growing disciplinary uptake (grant applications, journal submissions, etc.) β’ Gauging interest/need in a large-scale implementation project β’ Supporting interdisciplinary/cross-institutional collaboration β’ Reducing duplication of effort in creating researcher profiles
- 6. How Can We Fix This Problem? Author Institution Identifier System Publisher
Editor's Notes
- #3: Ranganathanβs fourth law: Save the time of the reader The OCLC Control Number will reach 1 billion sometime soon
- #4: (Punch card in second book β precursor to the barcode)
- #5: All joking aside, we are enthusiastic supporters of persistent identifiers, whether they are assigned to people or objects. As research supporters: One of my colleagues tells me that people she works with, especially faculty, are thrilled to learn that they can plug a DOI into Zotero and it automatically generates a citation As publishers: Create handles β and advocate for their usage rather than the repository-specific URLs that can change (weβre now on our third repository platform in 10 years, so this is a real need) Participate in development - New ORCID plugin for Hydra, OJS plugin being worked on We do all this, but we would like to do more!
- #6: How do we find this out: - Common sense would suggest searching the websites of the organizations that create the IDs, but May not be possible to search if not a subscriber, or functionality may not yet exist I know from ORCID that I have a Scopus ID, but I have no way of accessing that information as a non-Scopus subscriber I used Google to search for NU affiliated researchers with ORCIDs but pretty sure I didnβt find them all While itβs probably possible to get this info from the vendor or system developer, that shouldnβt be necessary (doesnβt help non-affiliates, for example) Why do we want to know: Outreach and support is a way for us to add value to the research and publishing process How can we know ROI on a large-scale project if we donβt know how many would need to be created, how many would benefit, etc. This is a common problem β a relationship of sorts exists between a researcher and the organization that assigns them an ID, but not between that org and the institution
- #7: There is a relationship, automated or otherwise, between the author and the identifier system, and the author and the institution obviously have a relationship, but there is poor access to information about the institutionβs authors within the identifier system. An API needs to focus on more than minting a persistent ID, it should also serve a reporting function. We want to support systems like ORCID, and want to encourage our faculty to sign up, but we also want to be able to track our authorsβ uptake. Librarians donβt like knowing thereβs information out there that we canβt access easily!