Having an ORCID (Open Researcher and Collaborator Identifier) is increasingly essential for many tasks associated with researcher activities. It solves the problem of using your initials and name, which are not guaranted to be unique, especially on a global stage. Getting an ORCID is something you will only need to do once in your career, although you should strive to keep it up to date as your career develops. The ORCID system will keep some aspects automatically up to date such as your journal and data publications. ORCID is also used for some IT services on campus, such as the research data repository. The notes here will illustrate the process of acquiring an ORCID followed immediately by using the research data repository for publishing research data.
Enter the username (do not add @ic.ac.uk to it on this occasion) and password for your Imperial College account and press login.
step 3Enter the requested details, including your Imperial College email as the Primary one and if you wish a second email to help with any future password recovery should you need it. The password field marked with a purple arrow is your ORCID password, which should be different from your Imperial College one and would be used only if you no longer have access to an Imperial College account (such as when you leave the College).
step 3Ensure you tick the Everyone visibility button to allow your works to be seen by everyone. Read the privacy policy and terms and conditions and finish by pressing the Register button.
step 4step 4An email will have been sent to your primary account to which you should respond to complete your registration.
Your new ORCID takes the form https://orcid.org/0000-1234-2345-3456 (with different numbers obviously) which you should record and store somewhere safe. It will be the number you will quote in many future researcher contexts. You can also enter more details about yourself, but this is not essential at this time.
Double check the visibility of your research record. If you want others to see it, then pull down the menu associated with your name, go to account settings and there select visibility settings and ensure it is set to Everyone. It might take an hour or so for your new research publication to appear!
If you are doing the first year course on Synthesis, go back to Blackboard page.
Using your ORCID to publish research data (stage 2)
Research data repositories have become very common in the last few years as places where research data can be formally published. This publication process is a little different from the traditional publication in a journal, since it is not peer reviewed in the normal manner. You will be using the Imperial College repository, where the contents will be clearly associated with the identity of its publisher and therefore you will be held accountable for these contents. Furthermore, an internal check is made for each publication in this repository for suitability before it can be released to the world. You will therefore have to set up the repository in this second stage before you can use it by associating your login there with your newly set up ORCID account. To do this, proceed as follows:
step 6Enter your login in the form username@ic.ac.uk (the same as used for email). In the image on the right the username replaces the red rectangle.
step 7Enter your College (i.e. NOT the ORCID) password and press Sign in
step 8Do not stay signed in (unless you are using a personal machine)
You may find that you are automatically logged in and do not need to action steps 2-4 above.
step 9You will find yourself back at ORCID. As before, go through an Institutional login
step 10When prompted enter your Imperial College login credentials.
If you performed stage 1 just before this stage, you may still be logged into ORCID and so the step above will not be needed.
step 11ORCID is now asking if the Imperial College repository can have access to your ORCID record. It needs this to record your data publications there. AUTHORIZE it.
step 12You are now automatically returned to the Imperial College repository page, ready to make your first data publication.
The next time you use the repository you may have to repeat only steps 1-3 of the above, or even just step 1.
An explanation of the data publishing process will be given on a separate page. This process results in a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) being granted in exchange for a published object (be it article, data, software etc). You can use these DOIs as citations in many different contexts.
