Promoting research

As part of its Open Science strategy, UNIL is offering its researchers 360° support in all areas of Open Access:

The UNIL Open Access strategy is based on the following principles

• The platinum path
• The golden path
• The green path
• The hybrid route

All supported by personalised tools, training, guides and direct support in the Research Department and/or from faculty specialists.

To find out which route to take, visit the UNIL Open Access website

This is how ORCID, a not-for-profit organisation, describes itself on its website, funded through fees paid by member organisations, universities, government bodies and research funders, and sponsored by certain foundations.

ORCID provides a permanent numerical identifier that anyone involved in research activities can use with their name. Researchers can insert their ORCID identifier on their web page when submitting publications or projects to research funding bodies.

ORCID also offers the possibility of creating a personal file in which researchers can post their research contributions as well as personal information.

ORCID is guided by a principle of confidentiality and control by the researcher, as well as by the provision of an information search infrastructure by identifier.

ORCID is also working on integrating the ORCID identifier into publication and data submission systems, with the aim of automatically updating the personal file when the researcher submits a publication or data.

Benefits for the researcher

ORCID can unambiguously establish a link between the researcher and his/her research contributions. It can therefore improve the process of managing author databases and improve the accuracy of searches of article records by name, thereby improving the visibility of the researcher.

Benefits for institutions

For research organisations such as UNIL the ORCID identifier can reduce the validation step for data from certified sources. Ultimately, for editors, it could simplify the manuscript submission process, and for research funding bodies, it would make it possible to quickly establish a link between researchers, their research and the funding programmes that have provided them with support.

ORCID à l’UNIL

L’UNIL  joined à ORCID in 2016. While registration with ORCID is free of charge for all researchers (more than 450 researchers at UNIL obtained their ORCID identifier before UNIL joined), the automatic registration of these identifiers for their use in the ORCID database is not; of these identifiers for use in UNIL databases is only possible if, on the one hand, UNIL is a member of the organisation and, on the other hand, each researcher authorises UNIL to access this information.

An organisation cannot automatically register its researchers.  Registration à ORCID is an individual and voluntary process. The confidentiality of the information in the personal file is under the control of the researcher. The ORCID personal file is made up of several components, and access rights for each of these components may differ.

The ORCID personal file is made up of several components, and access rights for each of these components may differ.

Components

1. Name
2. Personal information (including urls, other identifiers)
3. Biography/Biography (free text)
4. Training/Education (degrees and diplomas)
5. Emploi/Employment (past and present employers)
6. Financing/Funding (scholarships, research funds)
7. Work/Works (publications, conferences, datasets)

Visibility of data

All information in the ORCID file can be protected at 3 levels:

8. Public: information that is publicly visible on the ORCID website and can be accessed through the public API.
9. Trusted parties: information visible to "Trusted Parties" or "Trusted Organizations" authorised by the researcher.
10. Private: information visible only to the researcher.

These visibility levels can be changed at any time by the ORCID user.

The Management recommends à its researchers to register à ORCID. This can be done directly via orcid.org/register  or via the Unisciences personal page.

The Management also recommends that UNIL be designated as a Trusted Party so that the ORCID identifier can be automatically registered and integrated into the UNIL databases. This can be done simply by logging in once à ORCID via the "Créer button or link your iD" ORCID from the Unisciences personal page.

Data on ORCID

ORCID has a privacy policy (orcid.org/privacy-policy)  describing in particular how information is used and shared. UNIL does not intend to transfer to ORCID any information in its possession, such as diplomas obtained at UNIL, contracts of employment, funding obtained from third parties, or personal information. For components 2 and 6 above, it is up to each researcher to decide what he or she wishes to publish on the ORCID website and whether or not to make it public.

For an ORCID file, data exchanges between the ORCID site and SERVAL can be useful. In the ORCID to SERVAL direction, the list of works is proposed to the researcher; duplicates found in SERVAL are clearly mentioned. In the SERVAL to ORCID direction, the researcher can select the SERVAL records to be transferred to their ORCID file.

More information on the site.