Integrate ORCID
Our integration with ORCID allows users to update their data within Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR, Faculty180) from their ORCID record. The ORCID record focuses on faculty scholarship and consolidates scholarly works from many online sources. This makes the FAR–ORCID integration a powerful resource for many faculty loading their scholarship into FAR.
Note that the institution must take certain steps to turn on the ORCID integration in order for a user to connect their ORCID account. If you do not see the option to connect your ORCID account to your FAR account, reach out to your institution’s FAR administrator.
To get further assistance using the ORCID integration within Interfolio, contact help@interfolio.com or ORCID directly at their website for ORCID-specific questions.
Overview of ORCID
About
- Interfolio is an ORCID Member Organization. ORCID is an open, not-for-profit organization that serves the research community by providing individuals with a user identifier, called an ORCID ID, that reliably and clearly connects them with their research contributions and affiliations.
- In addition to research and scholarly works, an ORCID record can hold work experience, education, training, grants, and a biography. In FAR, access to the ORCID functionality, if it is turned on for the institution, is available in the Legacy Vita's menu.
- In order to use this integration, a faculty member must generate a user ORCID ID by establishing an account/record in the ORCID system. Once an ORCID account is established, the faculty member gives FAR permission, via OAuth, to access the ORCID account directly, then the ORCID import and export functionality becomes available.
Integration
The following are pre-requisites to utilizing the ORCID API:
- The Institution must be an ORCID member.
- The faculty member must personally own an ORCID account. Go here to register.
- The faculty member must allow access to their ORCID account. (This step initiates within FAR - see below).
If the institution wishes to utilize the ORCID integration, please email help@interfolio.com requesting that access to the ORCID API be turned on. Once the request is received, Interfolio will need to confirm the mapping of the ORCID profile data for the institution's customized database.
Mapping
For assistance with mapping, clients can request a meeting with their CSM or a consultant if they are receiving errors or if their integration is not functioning properly.
Manage FAR access to a faculty ORCID profile
Grant
Navigation: Vitas & Biosketches > Legacy Vitas > ORCID Registry
- Click Legacy Vitas under the Vitas & Biosketches section of the navigation menu in FAR.
- Click ORCID Registry under the Vita section.
- Click ORCID Registry if an ORCID account has not been created yet.
- Click Sign In/Register and enter faculty member information to sign into your ORCID account.
- Log in on the next screen to authorize the account. A message will display indicating Access successfully granted.
- After going back to FAR the following will occur:
- The faculty member's ORCID iD displays in the View Profile column.
- Clicking the ORCID ID link takes the faculty member to their public ORCID profile.
- Clicking the ORCID Registry link will take the faculty member to the ORCID homepage.
Revoke access to FAR
Access will need to be revoked within both FAR and ORCID to prevent FAR from accessing the users' account.
Navigation: Vitas & Biosketches > Legacy Vitas > Vita/Profile Systems > Check > Confirm
- Click Legacy Vitas under the Vitas & Biosketches section on the navigation bar in FAR.
- Under the Vita/Profile Systems heading, the entry for ORCID Registry will show the faculty member is signed in.
- Click the checkmark adjacent to Signed in to revoke this access.
- Click Confirm on the Revoke ORCID Registry Access dialog box. The access has been revoked.
Revoke access on the ORCID profile
Navigation: Log in to ORCID > Name > Account Settings > Revoke Access
- Log into your ORCID account and click on your name in the upper right-hand corner.
- Click Account settings.
- Click Revoke access under Trusted Organizations next to Faculty180.
- Click Revoke access permissions.
- FAR will no longer have access to your ORCID account until you choose to grant access to FAR again.
Import data from ORCID to FAR
If access has not already been granted to the ORCID account, follow the steps outlined under the Grant tab above to grant FAR access to a faculty ORCID profile.
Import
Navigation: Vitas & Biosketches > Legacy Vitas > Vita/Profile Systems > Import
- Click Legacy Vitas under the Vitas & Biosketches section on the navigation bar in FAR.
- Click Import under the Vita/Profile Systems section.
Data from the ORCID profile displays. Note that duplicate (previously imported) entries are hidden, and thus will not display.
- Select items to transfer to FAR.
- Scroll down and click Import Selected once all the desired records are selected.
- The records to be imported will display. Update the status, semester, and year as needed.
- Click Save when finished.
- The Import from the ORCID results will display. The possible upload results are:
- Successfully Added
- Possible Duplicate: possible duplicates can be reviewed under the To Do section of the Dashboard.
- Error: the reason for the error will be displayed
- Exact duplicate: will not be imported.
- Click Go Back to return to the Vitas & Biosketches page.
- To review the import results again, click the View link under the View Previous Import column.
What's Included?
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The following data can be imported from ORCID to FAR:
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Not Included |
The following data will not be included in ORCID imports to FAR:
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