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100% ORCiD registration at the Amsterdam Centre for Family Law

7 November 2024
The Amsterdam Centre for Family Law (ACFL) is the first department at the VU where 100% of its employees have created an ORCiD. For this reason, they were treated to cake.

What explains the popularity of creating an ORCiD at the ACFL?

Geeske Ruitenberg, ACFL programme leader: "The trigger was an email from Arno Akkermans - professor of Private Law - in which he made an appeal for all of us to sign up to ORCiD.''

Nadia Ismaïli, university lecturer, says that the accessibility explains the success: "Well, because we got a do-this-and-that and it's done e-mail. If you want people to start using it, it has to be easy. If it is offered bite-sized, then you get it done easily."

What do ACFL staff see as major advantages of creating an ORCiD?

Geeske Ruitenberg: "That people know how to find your publications, and can see which networks you participate in. That you can also be found internationally."

Loran Kostense, PhD candidate, explains: "Suppose you were to go to another university or employer, that you are no longer tied to Pure, but that it is also somewhere else. And because I also publish internationally, that you also have that link with international journals and articles."

More and more publishers and grant providers request ORCiD registration. Is that an important motivation to create an ORCiD?

Loran Kostense: "Indeed, I did have that. I submitted an article to an American journal, and they asked for an ORCiD number there. I think that was the trigger for me to do an ORCiD registration."

Did the ACFL staff link their ORCiD to the VU Research Portal?

Loran Kostense explains, "Yes, also because my supervisor who worked here first pointed that out to me. She said to me that if you want to continue in academia, you have to be well findable and everything has to be registered on the profiles as well."

Will other VU departments now follow the ACFL's good example?

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If there is cake in return, maybe", says Geeske Ruitenberg. "It's a small effort. There is no high threshold to register. If more attention is drawn to it and the importance is stressed. If you were to send an email out every year with tips: This is how you can do it, this is how you tackle it; accompanied by a simple step-by-step plan, than maybe that could contribute so that more people will join."

Nadia Ismaïli: "If you can indicate very quickly that it's very easy to install, and can indicate that it's convenient for yourself that you have everything in one place, I think people will do it. If someone hadn't informed me of its existence and how easy it is to install, I would never have come across it myself."

Loran Kostense: "Hopefully, of course. Maybe with a nice incentive, you draw people's attention to it. You have to know about it indeed, and people are obviously busy too, so you could bring it to their attention repeatedly."

The advantages of an ORCiD:

The advantages of an ORCiD:

• ORCiD prevents name confusions and increases visibility

• ORCiD is an international standard required for submissions and research proposals

• ORCiD saves time by connecting and updating selected repositories

• ORCiD is an open, non-profit organization, driven by the scientific community

• ORCiD is not limited to one institution

• Researchers own and control their own ORCiD record

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