It is correct to say that any individual researcher can create an ORCID for them and use that for their publications. Many publishers started asking this, and it works as unique identifier irrespective of publisher and databases. But if an institution want to use it to integrate with their repository, research management systems etc, institution need become a member (fees is higher and pay even more if ORCID integration is required for more than one system). This needs to be debated and ORCID should bring down the membership fee according to income of the country, so that developing nations can also take part of this "avoiding name ambiguity initiative".  We have membership and integrated ORCID with our repository and under process for the research management system (PURE), one recent work is under review with f1000, and you can read it from here. http://f1000research.com/articles/4-195/v1 |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Connecting the pieces: Using ORCIDs to improve research...Introduction The quality of a research institute can be defied in many ways; quality of its teaching, graduates, research outputs, social, environmental and econom... | | | | View on f1000research.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | |   |  ---------- Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, Manager, University Library Collections and Information Services, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia. www.kaust.edu.sa On Monday, July 6, 2015 12:54 PM, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: Thanks very much. Dr Krichel points out that ORCiD is not OA. The purpose of ORCiD is for each publication to be attributed to its right authors and not to someone else with a similar sounding name. In China there are tens of thousands of authors whose names as rendered in English will be spelt as W A N G. Some of them may be physicists, others molecular biologists and some others economists. Same is the case with people with the name P A R K in Kore and S I N G H in India. ORCiD ensures each paper is associated with the right author. Is that not a very useful service?  Also, each author will have all his papers - and only his papers - assigned to him. Dr Manjunath refers to the research management tools and asserts that ORCiD and VIVO put together is still incomplete. I do not get the point. But I just saw this article in Wikipedia: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_research_networking_tools_and_re...

. May be Dr Manjunath will find his answer there. ORCiD encompasses Researcher ID and Scopus author ID in the sense all one needs to use is ORCiD and it will automatically bring in data from the other two if the individual instructs it to do so.

Best wishes. Arun On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Vignoli Michela wrote:

Hi Thomas and all,

Are there good alternatives to ORCID? And is there a paper or something highlighting the pros and cons for using the one or the other?

Thanks for your input!

Best, Michela

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Message: 3 Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 10:41:14 +0000 From: Thomas Krichel To: Subbiah Arunachalam Cc: IAALD Information , "open-access@lists.okfn.org"         , Prasanth Radhakrishnan         , IASLIC Kolkata ,         LIS-Forum , natarajan avadaiappan         , open-science@lists.okfn.org, jayarajan p         Subject: Re: [Open-access] ORCiD and Libraries Message-ID: <20150705104114.GC17500@openlib.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

  Subbiah Arunachalam writes

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It gives a clear picture of ORCiD and its advantages.  And why all of us - everyone in science and scholarship - should have it,

  Maybe, but it's not open access.

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  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel                                               skype:thomaskrichel

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