Boosting the Identifier Ecosystem of the University of Colorado Boulder Faculty

• Published in: Library resources & technical services Vol. 69; no. 1
• Main Author: Long, Chris
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago American Library Association 2025
• Subjects: Academic libraries; Analysis; Authority control; Careers; College campuses; Colleges & universities; Company business management; Ecosystems; Library cataloging; Library catalogs; Library resources; Linked Data; National libraries; Pilot projects; Scholarly communication; Subject cataloging; Subject cataloging and indexing; Technical services; University and college libraries; United States; Colorado
• ISSN: 2159-9610; 0024-2527; 2159-9610
• DOI: 10.5860/lrts.69n1.8168

Unique author identifiers play a crucial role in scholarly communication, enabling the correct attribution of authorship and the promotion and discovery of scholarly works. Identifiers benefit both the individual faculty member and their campus community as well. Academic library catalogers play an essential role in ensuring a robust identifier profile for the faculty on their campus and in growing and maintaining the broader identifier ecosystem. This study provides the most thorough analysis to date of the faculty identifier ecosystem of an R1 public university, examining the prevalence of five identifiers among the university's faculty and using this information to determine practical ways that its cataloging team can boost the local and global identifier ecosystem, as well as providing guidance to other cataloging agencies interested in a similar endeavor.