Encouragement from one’s peers is often most successful. To that end, we appreciate August (Gus) Evrard – an astrophysicist and physics professor at the University of Michigan and an ORCID Ambassador – collaborating with librarians in writing an article entitled “Persistent, Global Identity for Scientists via ORCID”. [11] As a scientist himself, he understands the importance of authors acquiring unique identifiers.
We can also share and benefit from our colleagues’ resources for ORCID outreach to students and scientists. Kayleigh Bohemier, Science Research Support Librarian at Yale, has published a step-by-step “Set Up Your ORCID” video on one of her LibGuides. [12] Jane Holmquist has published on Zenodo the slides for her “Getting Organized by Getting ORCIDized” workshop for astrophysics graduate students at Princeton. [13] Chris Erdmann and James Damon have published their “Get Your ORCID: Stand Out from the Crowd” poster, also freely available on Zenodo. [14]
ORCID itself has made available numerous resources to assist you with your own outreach efforts to researchers. [15] These include a great video entitled “What is ORCID?”, one-page flyers, banners, and text to adapt for newsletters or emails to researchers in your organization. These materials are intended to address the interests of researchers and scholars, and all members of the community are invited to use them to help raise awareness and adoption of ORCID identifiers.