National Science Foundation CIO Amy Northcutt speaks about the value of ORCID identifiers for funding agencies.

1. ORCID Identifiers and
Funding Agencies:
An NSF Perspective
Amy Northcutt
Chief Information Officer
National Science Foundation
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2. What We Do at NSF
1. Plan
• Plan programs
• Publish
solicitations
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2. Review
• Plan reviews
• Find reviewers
• Conduct reviews
• Recommend
decisions
3. Award
• Make awards
• Obligate, disburse
funds
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4. Manage
• Post-award
monitoring
• Progress
reporting
• Financial
management
5. Results
• Public Outcomes
Reports
• Public access to
results of
research
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3. How can data improve our decisions?
Plan:
Review:
Award:
Manage:
Results:
• Data enables new
portfolio analysis
capabilities
• Data facilitates
identification of
reviewers
• Data disambiguates
PI funding history
• Data reduces
administrative
burden
• Data enriches
evaluation &
assessment
 What did my
organization
fund?
 Cross-disciplinary,
cross-agency,
international
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 Pre-population of
reports
 Identification of
all research
participants
Expertise
Experience
Affiliations
History as a
reviewer
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 Research results
 PI and Team
 Broadening
participation
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4. Current State
PIs, Co-PIs
(NSF ID)
Data
Publications
Reviewers
(Reviewer
ID)
Other
Funding
Entities
Home
Institutions
NSF Staff
(NSF LAN
ID)
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Publicallyavailable
Info
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5. Possible Solution
Publications
ORCID
Data
Reviewers
(Reviewer
ID)
PIs, Co-PIs
(NSF ID)
Other
Funding
Entities
Home
Institutions
NSF Staff
(NSF LAN
ID)
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Publicallyavailable
Info
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6. Sample Benefits of Unique Identifiers
• Strengthen portfolio analysis capabilities (within an
organizational unit, across units, across disciplines, cross-agency,
internationally)
• Facilitate identification of reviewers
• Reduce administrative burden
• Enrich evaluation and assessment capabilities
• Enable longitudinal analysis
• Support NSF’s commitment to the public access of direct results
of NSF-funded research
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7. Contact Information
Amy Northcutt
Chief Information Officer
National Science Foundation
anorthcu@nsf.gov
(703) 292-8101
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8. Back-Up:
SciENcv
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9. What is SciENcv?
SciENcv is a new electronic system that will enable researchers to easily assemble biographical information in order to
simplify the work flow associated with federal funding. The system will interact with other biographical and network
tools and it will help federal funders better describe the impact of the nation’s scientific investments.
Goals of SciENcv:
• Initially, the goal is reducing the burden associated with creating and maintaining federal biosketches while
accommodating the need to describe scientific contributions.
Key Concepts:
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SciENcv is a free, researcher-curated data repository that includes information on
expertise, employment, education, and professional accomplishments
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Any researcher may register and create a SciENcv
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Researchers control the content of their profile and which data elements, if any, are made visible to the general
public
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Users can directly import biographical information from existing federal and non-federal sources
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SciENcv data resides on a federal server within a secure environment
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SciENcv will initially generate biosketches in the format required for federal research applications but will
eventually replace biosketch attachments with online data
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10. What is SciENcv? (cont’d.)
Beta Version of SciENcv: Researcher may test the initial beta version of SciENcv that was released on September 9,
2013. The system will help researchers assemble an NIH biosketch by extracting information from NIH eRA Commons
and PubMed. In addition, SciENcv will permit users to link the content of their profiles to a persistent, unique identifier
offered by ORCID.
Future of SciENcv:
The ability to generate biosketches for other federal agencies will be built into future versions of SciENcv and
additional utilities such as those shown below will be added:
• Generate and maintain multiple biosketches including those for NSF and other federal science agencies
• Describe the scientific impact of past discoveries
• Ingest data from additional external systems
• Control data exposure
• Transfer data to other systems
• Allow delegates to manage data
Feedback and suggestions from the research community is welcomed at info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
How can I create a SciENcv profile?
SciENcv is part of the My NCBI suite of tools. Anyone may create a My NCBI account at the sign-in page
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/account/. Users have the option to sign in using third-party accounts (for example, an
eRA Commons account, a local institutional account through InCommon, or a Google account). Full instructions for My
NCBI and the SciENcv tool are also available.
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11. NIH Notice Re: SciENcv
“SciENCV will permit users to link their data to a
persistent, unique identifier offered by ORCID”
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