Table 1
Project timeline.
| Date | Activity |
|---|---|
| 06/11/14 | ORCID web pages go live ORCID support in Symplectic Elements goes live E-mail from the Provost to all staff |
| 14/11/14 | Follow-on e-mail from ORCID project Supporting communications: staff briefing, info screens, etc. |
| 20/11/14 | Reminder about ORCID distributed via Heads of Departments |
| 27/11/14 | Final day to opt out or add an existing iD to Elements Technical preparation starts |
| 03/12/14 | E-mail to staff informing them that ORCID creation is imminent ORCID iD creation process ORCID claim e-mail sent from ORCID |
| 11/12/14 | ORCID identified 325 staff who already had an iD but did not link it to Elements before 03/12; as a result no iDs were created for them. The project e-mailed these colleagues, encouraging them to add their iD to Elements. |
| 08/01/15 | E-mail to staff who had not linked their iD to their Elements profile |
Table 2
ORCID project achievements in numbers.
| Project achievements in numbers | No |
|---|---|
| Overall number of staff included initially | 4,347 |
| Staff excluded (those not listed in the College’s public staff directory) | 332 |
| Staff opting out through the online form | 25 |
| Staff who added iDs to Symplectic Elements before the roll-out | 439 |
| Staff with existing iDs, as identified through ORCID de-duplication | 325 |
| New staff iDs created | 3,226 |
| Metadata on publications (‘works’) added to the ORCID registry | >240K |
| Staff asking for their newly created iD to be deleted (usually because they already had one that was missed by the de-duplication) | 7 |
| Staff iDs linked to Elements as of 19/01/15 (project end date) | 1,155 |
| Staff iDs linked to Elements as of 28/09/2015 | 1,406 |
| College-created iDs claimed as of 20/10/2015 (~65% of the 3,226 created) | 2,088 |