ORCID for researchers

ORCID is short for Open Researcher and Contributor ID. It is an international standard to help researchers to establish and maintain their scholarly identity. It aims to solve common issues such as

  • not getting credit for your research because your name is common or because you have published using a different version of your name
  • struggling to find a central place to keep track of all your research outputs 
  • having to spend time entering the same information over and over in publisher and grant submission systems
  • What is ORCID

    Unique, persistent identifier for researchers

    Non-profit organisation supporting links between systems.

    ORCID is an open, community-driven organisation

    It is discipline-neutral and not tied to any particular platform or publisher

  • Benefits to you

    Improves discoverability

    Connects your work

    Eliminates name ambiguity

    Stays with you throughout your career

    Reduces time spent on repetitive data entry by pulling information from other sources

  • Where to use an ORCID iD

    Manuscript submission

    Grant applications (Wellcome Trust, Royal Society and more are already using ORCID)

    Professional society memberships

    Linked to your other profiles

    Display on your CV, web profiles and more

  • ORCiD and Elements

    Your University Elements profile can be linked to your ORCiD record. This will enable Elements to retrieve publication IDs from your ORCiD profile and use these IDs to find those publications online and claim those records for you automatically.

    More importantly, details of records deposited into Elements will automatically update your ORCiD record. This means you only have enter details of new publications in one place. 

  • Maintaining your research identity and streamlining systems

    This seminar explored how new identifiers for researchers can help you to attach your identity to research objects (from articles to media stories) and distinguish your research activities from those of others with similar names.  Researchers interact with an increasing number of research information systems as part of their work and entering data over and over again can be time-consuming. Find out how services such as ORCiD can save time and effort as you apply for funding, find and cite content and submit and publish a manuscript.

    Speaker: Josh Brown - Regional Director, Europe - ORCiD

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