A presentation by Jenny Evans, head of research and scholarly communications at University of Westminster.

1. The road to embedding ORCID in systems
at the University of Westminster
Jenny Evans
Head of Research and Scholarly Communications
evansje@westminster.ac.uk
@jennye

2. About the University of Westminster
– More than 20,000 students from over 150 nations
– Approximately 1000 academic staff
– 4 campuses
– Research engaged and practice driven
– ‘Research with impact’ a key theme of our Westminster 2020 strategy
– Faculties
– Architecture and the Build Environment
– Media, Art and Design
– Science and Technology
– Social Sciences and Humanities
– Westminster Business School

3. Implementing ORCID
…an exercise in agile working
Join UK ORCID
Consortium
HR System (SAP)
the preferred system
(March-June 2016)
Consultation &
planning
(Dec 2016–
June 2017)
Change in
preferred
system
(CRIS - Haplo)
(June 2017)
Go live (Sept
2017…June
2018)
Next steps…
further
advocacy
(Sept 2018)

4. Implementing ORCID
…decision making
Institutional drivers
- Stakeholders
- HR Services, MI & Systems team
- Information Services (IT)
- University Research Committee
- Information Management Group
(Research & Knowledge Exchange)
- Resourcing
- cost of implementation
ORCID community
- UK ORCID Support at Jisc – from the
team and web pages
- ORCID Community
Haplo Services
- CRIS system supplier

5. Research Information Systems
Student
information
(SITS)
Staff
information
(SAP)
SITS table
Virtual Research Environment (VRE) (Haplo)
Westminster
Research
(EPrints)
Academic
profiles
(Drupal)
Researcher
profiles
Repository
(data entry)
Pre-award
support
Ethics
Monitor
PhD Manager