The ORCID Project at Imperial College London
In 2014 Imperial became a member of ORCID and a cross-Imperial project board was formed to facilitate the creation of an ORCID iD for all academic staff.
The project was part of a pilot run by Jisc, ARMA and ORCID, and participation by Imperial was approved by the Provost Board and discussed at the Open Access Publishing group by representatives from all faculties.
On 3 December 2014, Imperial created an ORCID iD for 3,226 academic staff. This number excluded staff who had already registered for an iD and those who opted out. All staff included in this bulk creation received an email from Library Services instructing them on how to claim their ORCID iD and how to link it to their Symplectic profile. To create the new ORCID profiles the College provided ORCID with information on over 240,000 academic works.