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