Recap of Enabling Value Featuring Pure: Value Unlocked with ORCID CSP

In a recent Enabling Value webinar, Malene Knudsen, Senior Product Manager of Integrations at Pure Elsevier, discussed the various capabilities of Pure’s Core Module, and how certification via ORCID’s Certified Service Provider (CSP) program was a major step in reinforcing Elsevier’s commitment to supporting open research infrastructure and ensuring accurate, high-quality flow of validated research data.

Pure ensures research outputs are interconnected, complete, and compliant

The Pure Core Module provides a complete overview of researcher activities and outputs, serving as an institution’s preferred version of record, by managing data seamlessly and ensuring all research work is interconnected, complete, and compliant.

Key functions of the Core Module include:

• Providing full access to the institution’s body of research work.
• Importing data directly via the Pure API and integrating with industry-leading external sources like Scopus and Web of Science.
• Utilizing validation and de-duplication workflows to maintain accurate, high-quality, and up-to-date imported data.

In addition to the Core Module, Pure offers other modules, including the Pure Portal, Award Management, CV Module, Reporting, National Assessment, and Pure Community Module, which can support the needs of ORCID member institutions and further facilitate the exchange of relevant data with researchers’ ORCID records.

Extensive integration capabilities

Pure has an extensive network of integrations, ensuring data is both imported and exported accurately and reliably to other research systems.

ORCID Certification guarantees adherence to community best practices

It’s been over a year since the Research Information Management (RIM) system, Pure, developed by Elsevier, became an ORCID CSP by demonstrating their adherence to community-developed best practices for RIMs. Pure has been integrated with ORCID since 2016, however this certification provides additional key assurances:

1. A more consistent user experience: It ensures that Pure clients turning on ORCID functionality are utilizing the integration correctly for effective importing, exporting, and exposing content.
2. Adherence to best practices: It ensures Pure adheres to best practices within the global research ecosystem, demonstrating a commitment to supporting open research infrastructure.

The critical role of researcher authentication

Researcher authentication is required for ORCID to function correctly in Pure. The process must be done by the researcher (it cannot be done on their behalf).

This authentication is vital because it:

• Ensures the ORCID captured in Pure is correctly linked to the researcher’s actual ORCID record.
• Makes the researcher aware of how their institution will interact with their ORCID record (import/export) using Pure.

During authentication, the researcher grants Pure permissions, which include allowing Pure to read (or import) both public and limited visibility items on their ORCID record, as well as explicitly allowing Pure to write (export) content to their ORCID record on their behalf.

Only authenticated ORCIDs are used for critical import and export actions, such as setting up automated searches for research outputs, or sending data to third-party sources like DataCite, and facilitating OAI-PMH crawling (the process of metadata harvesting using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), which prevents the pollution of the research ecosystem with inaccurate data.

History and recent developments

Pure’s longstanding history with ORCID shows a commitment to continually improving the integration, offering increased value to researchers and ORCID member organizations alike.

Nine years since Pure’s first integration with ORCID, which allowed for export of publications and affiliations, Elsevier continues to enhance its ORCID integration. The most recent developments include:

• Supporting the new Work types in ORCID for both import and export.
• Including authenticated ORCIDs in DataCite integration.
• Better handling for former employees.

CSPs enable value for ORCID members

Many popular scholarly service providers, including Research Information Systems (such as Pure), Manuscript Submission Systems, Grant/Facility Application Management Systems, and Repository Systems, have an ORCID integration built in, and are certified by us to adhere to best practices recognized throughout the global research ecosystem—all you have to do is turn the functionality on! Not only does this reduce burden for your researchers as they use this validated data in other workflows, the Trust Markers that accompany the data actively contribute to the global community trust model espoused by ORCID.

We invite you to watch the webinar replay and download the presentation, as well as watch other past Enabling Value webinars from our ORCID On-Demand library to learn more about other ORCID CSPs. Additionally, service providers can become ORCID certified for free, while increasing the value of their services and products. Learn more about the ORCID Certified Service Provider program here. For technical support with the Pure integration with ORCID, please visit Elsevier’s Knowledge Base.

Contributor

Malene Knudsen

Product Manager, Elsevier

Malene has been working with Pure for more than 20 years, both as a power user and as a key part of the Pure team. She holds a degree in Library Science from the Royal School of Library Science in Denmark. Prior to joining the team, she was a Pure Administrator at Aalborg University. She was a part of the Pure Support team with a special focus on Pure training and quality assurance for six years ans is currently a member of the Product management team, holding the position of Subject Matter Expert. The last two years Malene has also been responsible for building out the training curriculum for reporting and managing our reporting and data matters communities, providing help in understanding how to use the vast set of features and functionality in Pure.