"MyRID: ORCID Integration in Malaysia" presented by Puan Thanaletchumi Dharmalingam, IT Officer at the Malaysia Citation Centre, on 28 February 2017.

1. MyRID: ORCID integration
28 February 2017
Thanaletchumi Dharmalingam
Information Technology Officer
Malaysia Citation Centre.

2. Agenda
 Background
 Objectives
 MyRID
 Integration

3. Background
 Researchers’ details obtained from various databases for the purpose of
promotion:
 Scopus
 Web of Science
 Google Scholar
 MyCite
 Different author names, difficult to get accurate h-index / citations / number
of publications. Malaysians have many common names. etc: Mohammad,
Abdullah, Nurul, Siti etc.
 Authors change institutions

4. Objectives
 MyRID was developed for the local researchers to manage their publications
(local and international) in one place.
 Import local and international publications
 Local – MyJurnal & MyCite
 International – ORCID, Scopus and Web of Science
 Exchange profile of researchers

5. ORCID MyRID
International
databases
Profile, publicationsProfile, publications
Scopus, ResearcherID, CrossRef dll
MyRID – Malaysian Researchers publication Identity
MyJurnal
ResearcherID
(WoS)
Scopus

6. URL (http://myrid.gov.my)

8. Profile

9. Scopus
Web of Science

11. How MCC does the integration?
 Application Programming Interface (API) is
use to access resources - biographies,
publications
 Two kind of APIs:
 Public (read-only)
 Member (requires owner’s authorization)

12. ORCID API
 Member
 Requires access token resources - granted by the owner thru OAuth
 Once granted, we can access API endpoints authorized by the owner -
which include reading and updating resources

13. Development
 Sandbox - Test ORCID APIs

14. Challenges
 Some emails cannot be reached
 Researchers have moved institution
 Many IDs available for researchers – Scopus, ReseacherID etc
How we overcome:
 Outreach program – workshops, meetings
 Social media

15.  Thank you