Nobuko Miyairi
Freelance
Nobuko Miyairi is a freelance scholarly communications consultant based in Tokyo, Japan. She provides strategic consulting for new business development for organizations whose primary focus is on STM publishing and scholarly communications. Her service caters to a wide range of needs from academic societies, research institutions, government agencies, publishers, and solution vendors.
Previously Nobuko held positions at ORCID as Regional Director, Asia Pacific; Nature Publishing Group (now Springer Nature) as Head of Custom Publishing & Solutions, East Asia; Thomson Reuters (now Clarivate Analytics) as Principal Consultant, Business Development, East/South/Southeast Asia. A librarian by training, Nobuko earned an MLIS from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Sessions
Workshop 4: Persistent Identifiers: Vital Tools in Scholarly Communication and Why They Matter
Today, virtually every online publication is assigned a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), and many publishers require authors to authenticate via ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID). These permanent identification numbers help you find papers, even if the journal link you saved stops working, the author’s email changes or the Dropbox folder with raw data is deleted. And it is important for science communicators, not just researchers, to understand how these Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) work and are useful.
When and how can you get DOIs for your work? How is ORCID different from a Google Scholar profile? And who is enabling and providing PID services for what purposes? This workshop offers a quick overview of PIDs and how they are assigned to research outputs, researchers, organizations, and more. We then discuss how PIDs are embedded in the platforms and tools we use in scholarly communications, especially in tracking your research outputs and their impact and reach. We will demo Altmetric Explorer, a tool to discover how your research is mentioned in a variety of sources: social media, blogs, news sites, Wikipedia, policy documents, etc.
This session is designed for those engaged in science communication, research support, or public relations for research groups and institutions.