Track and Envision Your Scholarly Output: ORCiD

For your work,  ORCiD is a:

• Lifelong digital identifier
• Non-proprietary alphanumeric code linked to your publications
• Universally-recognized accreditation system unfettered from an institution or database

Help users determine it really is you and get the credit you deserve!

• Add all variations of your name into the record, including abbreviations, nicknames, maiden names, etc.
• Add your affiliation(s)
• No more worries about the correct Smith, J. or Lee, H.

• Non-profit organization
• Sustained by fees from member organizations
• Transparent and non-proprietary
• Their goal is to empower researcher control

You can authorize CrossRef and/or DataCite to automatically update your ORCiD account whenever you publish. These are the two major DOI providing entities for academic publications. Let them do the work for you.

Here are instructions from ORCiD:

• CrossRef
• DataCite

The Electronic  Research Administration (eRA) released a statement in the eRA Commons User Guide saying that "the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID ) is used within NIH and GRANTS.GOV to relate publications to grants." (2018)

The Deputy Director of NIH Extramural Research announced an expanded integration with ORCiD and eRA commons. (2017)

ORCiD supports 37 types of scholarly output in four categories.

• Publications
• Conferences
• Intellectual Property
• Other

Add your ORCiD to social media:

• Twitter
• Wikipedia
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Mendeley
• ResearchGate
• Etc.

This allows users to link to your work immediately.

• Does not store text files
• Enables connections between ORCiD number and the unique identifier (DOI) for documents
• Quick to set up
• Can import metadata from a variety of sources including
  • Scopus
  • Web of Science
  • PubMed
  • Europe PMC
• Can export data in BibTex format