ORCID, a researcher identifier solution which enables a wide range of improvements to the scholarly communications ecosystem, recently released an Australian ORCID Consortium Model for comment and expressions of interest. The Model was developed by the ORCID Working Group comprising representatives from Universities Australia (UA), Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL), Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS), Australian National Data Service (ANDS), Australian Access Federation (AAF) and the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT). Two major funders of Australian research - Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) - also provided input to the Working Group.
The initial aim is to establish an ORCID Consortium with a minimum of 20 Australian institutional members (plus the Consortium Host). Membership will be open to eligible Australian institutions including current ORCID members and those yet to join. The Model is designed to maximise the benefits of ORCID within each institution and, as part of the Consortium, all member institutions will have access to full features of premium ORCID membership for a substantially reduced fee. In addition, the Consortium Model aims to provide flexibility to its members in terms of the implementation and rollout of ORCID within each institution. The Australian Access Federation has agreed in principle to be the Consortium Host (subject to due diligence, which is currently underway).
The Consortium will continue to leverage the capabilities and resources of ANDS and CAUL to further develop and improve the community of practice in research management and around ORCID adoption in particular. To date this has included two national ORCID roundtables and a series of webinars featuring local and international speakers sharing their experiences of ORCID rollout. Future plans include more webinars, an ORCID workshop and ORCID Birds of a Feather session at the eResearch Australasia conference featuring Dr Laurel Haak, ORCID Executive Director, as guest speaker.
The Australian ORCID Consortium Model documents are available online at http://www.ands.org.au/discovery/orcid-consortium.html. Expressions of interest close on September 14, 2015.
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