The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced that it is now widely integrated in manuscript submission systems for journals including Aries Editorial Manager, eJournalPress, Open Journal System, and ScholarOne. Work on embedding ORCID in book publication processes will soon begin.
It has been learnt from EDItEUR that the book metadata standard ONIX has been updated to include fields for storing ORCID iDs. Additionally, Springer Nature announced last year that they were starting to collect ORCID iDs for book authors. Since then, ORCID has had a number of conversations with other book publishers about using ORCID. With the recent launch of their Collect & Connect program, intended in part to help clarify best practices for integrating ORCID iDs, the time seemed right to engage with the community on the use of ORCID in book workflows.
Parallel with a community working group on displaying iDs in journal articles, ORCID has announced a working group that will focus on book workflows. Over the coming months, the group will collect suggestions, current practices, and queries from stakeholders. Current members of the books community working group include Tim Devenport (EDItEUR), Justin Gonder (California Digital Library), Andrew Joseph (Wits University Press), Emily Marchant (Cambridge University Press), Martijn Roelandse (Springer Nature), and Terence Smyre (UMN Press).
Community input on where and when validated ORCID iDs should be brought into book workflows is greatly needed from all disciplines, regions, and sectors – and from organisations large and small. Interested parties may send their use cases, suggestions, and questions and issues related to the use and display of ORCID iDs in books workflows to community@orcid.org by August 15, 2016.
The group will distill these into draft recommendations, which will be circulated for community review before formal release. Once released, ORCID will work to disseminate best practices through the Collect & Connect program. All in the ORCID community are welcome to join in these discussions.
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