From: "Meadows, Alice" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:22:39 -0400

Thanks Arun!

As a quick follow-up to this, you may have seen that we are running
our second community survey at present to help us understand
perceptions of ORCID in the scholarly community including how iDs are
used and people's experiences of using them. This will then inform
future communications, outreach resources, and technical development.
We would be very grateful if members of this list could help spread
the word in your own communities please (and take the survey
yourself!).

The link is:

http://bit.ly/2rVdlPP

and the survey will remain open at least until this weekend - probably
through July 7 if we continue to receive plenty of responses.

We will be publishing a full report on the results and will share the
full anonymized dataset publicly.

Many thanks for your help.

Alice Meadows
Director of Community Engagement & Support, ORCID
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+1 857-559-3337
orcid.org/0000-0003-2161-3781



On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 10:51 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Subbiah Arunachalam <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 21:40:42 +0530
>
> As a scientometricist, I often face the problem of attributing
> research publications to the right authors. Author names are rendered
> differently in different publications, e.g. John Maynard Smith or John
> M Smith or J M Smith or Smith JM. Also, there could be more than one
> John M Smith. [The same way, names of institutions are also rendered
> in different ways. To take care of the multiple rendering of
> institutional names, Clarivate's Web of Science has a field called
> 'Organization enhanced' or OG. Even that does not capture all name
> variants.]
>
> If all authors of research publications adopt ORCID iD, the name
> ambiguity problem can be solved. More than a year ago, I and my
> colleague Muthu Madhan wrote a detailed paper on this issue:
>
> [http://www.nmji.in/temp/NatlMedJIndia294227-4257534_114935.pdf]
>
> but unfortunately, it does not seem to have reached many people.
>
> Academic and research librarians could campaign for the adoption of
> ORCID iD by all their users.
>
> Subbiah Arunachalam
> http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658
> http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009