Dear friends, As Dr. Gaur pointed out making awareness about the advantages of ORCID among faculty and researchers is the most important step. There are many other integration options for ORCID apart from integrating with Institutional repository software. In our university we use it for the following purposes. 1. Harvest faculty/researchers publications to E-prints (IR) 2. We harvest all information such as publications, previous employment, educational qualifications, funding etc. of faculty members in XML format and use it for multiple purposes such as - Research reporting to external agencies and government - Updating faculty pages in our website - Collect SCOPUS and Researcher ID of a researcher As vijayakumar mentioned, KAUST has also done wonderful implementations using ORCID and this was our main inspiration to start our project. http://repository.kaust.edu.sa/kaust/handle/10754/55692 Please see a presentation uploaded by ORCID Inc. regarding Khalifa University project on ORCID implementation at https://www.slideshare.net/ORCIDSlides/orcid-khalifa-university Best regards Nikesh *Nikesh Narayanan *I Systems & e-Librarian I Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research http://www.kustar.ac.ae/ PO Box 127788, Abu Dhabi, UAE Mobile : +971507097346 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.