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Scholarly Communication

OU Libraries guides scholars in matters relating to scholarly communication, which we define as the formal and informal ways research and scholarly works are created, evaluated, disseminated, preserved, used, and transformed.

Research IDs

A Research Identifier is a persistent digital identifier or unique identifier assigned to a researcher. 

Advantages of having an identifier:

  • Allow researcher to connect all research outputs together
  • For researchers with common names, ID's provide a way to identify and claim only their scholarship
  • Collects all versions of a researcher's name
  • Collects output researcher many have published under a previous name
  • Saves data entry time, different systems linked to Id store needed information

Three most common ID's

ORCID – is an effort to connect all researcher ID systems together. You can create a profile, and link it to your Scopus ID, ResearchID, and other systems. Many publishers now request or even require ORCID ID's at submission. 

ResearcherID - is connected to Web of Science, EndNote, and Journal Citation Reports. Researcher ID offers a public profile. You can choose what to show publicly. Researcher ID is also important as a basis to provide feedback to Web of Science for grouping author name variants or corrections to affiliations.

Scopus Author ID helps author recognition and disambiguation when searching publications. Many researchers already have a Scopus ID without realizing it. You can still claim and manage your Scopus Author ID by establishing an account in Scopus.