COBRA: Managing Your Scholarly Identity

This 5-day Impact Challenge is designed to help CoB faculty take ownership of their scholarly identity. 

Each weekday from Sept. 9-13, we'll send you an email with a small task to complete. Once you complete it, fill out the survey to be entered into a prize drawing. Each task you complete adds another entry into the drawing.

ORCiD (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher.

Fill in your first name, last name, preferred email, and password (write it down!).

Next, add as much information to your ORCiD as you can. Take advantage of ORCID integrations to link your works from other systems.

Don't forget to add "James Madison University" to the education or employment section - it helps promote visibility.

Make your profile public! Remember this is a research impact challenge!

Let Us Know You Completed the Task

Set up your Google Scholar profile, or take this opportunity to update it and add a recent photo.

Step 1: Create a Profile

You'll need your name, affiliation, JMU email, and areas of research interest. You may link to your profile in the CoB Directory or a personal website. You will need to confirm your email address to proceed.

Step 2: Add or Claim Your Publications

Google Scholar will provide a list of articles it thinks you wrote. Click the box next to an article to add it to your profile.

Decide how to handle updates. Google Scholar can automatically add articles it thinks you wrote without your approval, or it can email you and ask whether an article should be added. 

Review your profile. If you think an article is missing,  select "Add articles" from the + menu to search for it. You can also add articles manually.

Step 3: Make Your Profile Public

The point of this challenge is to create more visibility for your research!

Let Us Know You Completed the Task

Part 1: Check Your Scopus Author Profile

Your Scopus Author Profile is automatically generated by Elsevier. But there are three key maintenance tasks you can do:

• Ensure your affiliation is set to James Madison University
• Consolidate duplicate profiles (if you've published under different names, or at different institutions).
• Add your ORCiD to this profile! Under Profile Actions, select Connect to ORCiD. Follow the steps to associate the accounts.

As you check your profile, remember that a Scopus Author Profile won't be as comprehensive as an ORCiD profile or a Google Scholar Profile. That's because Scopus is only including articles that are indexed in the Scopus database. 

Part 2: Link back to ORCiD

And now that you know your Scopus Author ID, copy it and go back to your ORCiD profile and ensure the profiles are connected. 

1. Log in to ORCID
2. In the Works section, select 'Add works’ and then ‘Search & link’
3. Select Scopus - Elsevier from the list and authorize
4. Follow the steps to associate your Scopus profile and works with ORCiD

Let Us Know You Completed the Task

Part 1: Claim Your Web of Science ResearcherID

Anyone can claim a Web of Science ResearcherID - JMU doesn't need to subscribe to Web of Science to have one.

• Enter your name in Author Search
• Click “Claim My Record” on your author record page

Part 2: Sync with ORCiD

Once you have claimed your profile, click on My Profile > Profile Settings. The last tab is ORCiD Syncing.

Once here, Connect Your ORCiD and grant permission for the 

Then check the Permissions and click the phrase Grant Permission to allow Web of Science to update your publications and peer review on ORCiD and to update your profile on ORCiD.

If you agree to the profile update, your Web of Science ResearcherID will be exported to the "Other IDs" section of your ORCID profile.  

Part 3: Adding Publications 

Through syncing with your up-to-date ORCiD record, all of your journal articles should move to your Web of Science Researcher Profile.

As you check your profile, remember that a WoS Profile won't be as comprehensive as an ORCiD profile or a Google Scholar Profile. That's because it might not include articles published in journals that aren't indexed by Web of Science.

Let Us Know You Completed the Task

Step 1: Check Your Publisher's Policies about Archiving and OA sharing

Think about a paper you have published and identify the journal it appeared in.

Open the website Sherpa Romeo. It analyzes publishers' open access policies and will help you learn if you can archive a copy of your work in JMU Scholarly Commons or another repository. 

Search the title of the journal in Sherpa Romeo. Select the correct journal from the list of results. 

Find Accepted Version and click the plus sign to see whether you can share the author's accepted manuscript and what conditions apply.

Step 2: Post the Author Accepted Manuscript to a Repository 

If Sherpa Romeo reports that you can legally post an accepted version, your next step is likely trying to find a version on your computer. 

The Accepted Version often will still look like a Word file, but can include any edits that were recommended. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University shows what this version might look like. 

Then choose whether to upload the accepted version to an institutional repository (JMU Scholarly Commons) or a disciplinary or multidisciplinary repository (SSRN, RePEc, arXiv, etc.).

Potential repositories

Step 3: Think About Making Your Next Paper Open Access

Browse the journals that are covered by VIVA's Read and Publish Deals (No APCs), meaning that JMU authors can publish open access without paying an article processing charge. 

Have Questions About Taking Advantage of a Read & Publish Agreement?

Ask your librarian for more information about how these work and your rights as an author.

Let Us Know You Completed the Task and Take Our Wrap-Up Survey

These activities were adapted from similar challenges created by other academic librarians. Specifically, we'd like to acknowledge the influence of the following librarians and guides in our work:

• Willa Liburd Tavernier at Indiana University Libraries
• Rebecca Welzenback at University of Michigan Library
• Boglarka Huddleston at Lane Medical Library at Stanford
• Christina Miskey at UNLV Libraries
• Jess Newman McDonald at University of Tennessee Health Science Center .
• Columbia University Libraries