Improving affiliation data in ORCID for enhanced research visibility and integrity

Abstract

The presentation explains the recent improvements ORCID have made to allow users to best describe their affiliations and professional activities in their ORCID records. The different workflows to add affiliations to ORCID records are described together with the mechanisms implemented to increase the number of records that contain affiliation information. The criteria for CRIS vendors to become an ORCID Certified Service Provider are outlined and the working group on affiliations in ORCID is introduced. This WG, which euroCRIS is represented in, aims to provide best practices for institutions to directly deliver affiliation and professional activity data into ORCID on behalf of their professionals.