A contest will be held in May 2017 between the UCR faculty and the UCR graduate students to register the largest percentage of “team” members for ORCID IDs.

“Team Faculty” will consist of senate faculty and non-senate academic faculty and staff (Lecturers, Librarians and Researchers).  “Team Grad Student” will consist of graduate students and post-doctoral researchers.  The UCR Library will announce the start of the contest and, at the end of the contest, announce the winner.

Background:

ORCID IDs are unique identifiers for researchers.  They are becoming increasingly valuable for differentiating the work of one researcher from another.  Some publishers and grant giving agencies are now requiring submitters to include their ORCID IDs when submitting. An additional benefit to researchers is the ability to create a profile of publications and grants that increases their visibility and can interface with other researcher profiling systems.  There are currently 539 members of the UCR community with ORCID IDs.  It is free to register for an ORCID ID.

ORCID stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID. 

Rules:

• Researchers must register for an ORCID ID between May 1, 2017 at midnight and May 31, 2017 at 11:59pm to be eligible. Prior registrations will not count.
• The team with the largest percentage of new ORCID registrants during that period will be declared the winners.  For the purposes of calculating the percentage, only team members who have not registered with ORCID prior to the beginning of the contest will count towards the team’s total membership count.  They can, however, participate in the esprit de corps and accept any earned bragging rights.
• The representative of the losing team will present the representative of the winning team with an orchid at a specified place and time.
• It is not required to complete a full ORCID profile with papers and grants for the purposes of the contest, through it is highly encouraged. The library is available to help with this process.

To enter the contest, register for your ORCID ID here.