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This guide explains what ORCiD is, how it can benefit researchers, and ideas of how to use it.
What is an ORCiD?
- ORCiD = Open Researcher & Contributor Identifier
- Your ORCiD record includes your works that you have "claimed" and creates a profile of your scholarly profile that you control
- ORCiD identifiers are free, unique, and persistent identifiers for individuals
- DOI for researchers
- ORCiD reaches across disciplines, national boundaries, and cooperates with other identifier systems (e.g. ResearcherID)
- Non-profit, scholar-driven organization
Why Use an ORCiD?
Why Use ORCiD?
- Disambiguates individuals. This is especially helpful for people with common names or those who have changed their name.
- Gives you control of your scholarly profile regardless of name changes, variations of your name in publications, or institution changes
- Improves the visibility of your work through a scholarly profile controlled by you
- Required by a growing number of publishers (e.g. Wiley, PLOS, Cambridge University Press, and many others)
- Required or encouraged by a growing number of funding agencies
- Saves you time by allowing information to be entered in one place
Including your ORCiD identifier may be possible or required when you submit a manuscript for publication. This will help to automatically create a new record for that work in your ORCiD record when it's published. Review a current list of publishers who require ORCiD identifiers with submissions.
Four Ways to Add your works to ORCiD Now!
There are four ways to add works to your ORCiD record:
- Add works by direct import from other systems (e.g. CrossRef, MLA International Bibliography, ResearcherID)
- Add works using an identifier (e.g. DOI, PubMed ID, ArXiv ID)
- Import works from a BibTeX file
- Add your works manually
