This document discusses ORCID, which provides researchers with a unique identifier to help connect their work and activities over their career. ORCID aims to disambiguate authors' names, provide persistent identifiers, minimize repetitive data entry, and ensure works are discoverable. It does this by integrating ORCID IDs into research workflows and systems used by organizations like universities, publishers, and funders. Over 812,000 IDs have been issued internationally across many disciplines and sectors.

1. Optimizing Discoverability of Research and Scholarship
• To identify and disambiguate name authors of the
scholarly record ensuring the works are discoverable and
properly attributed
• To provide individual researchers and scholars with a
persistent unique identifier
• To provide a mobile record for managing research
activities
• To minimize the time spend entering repetitive data
• Further, ORCID is working with a range of stakeholders to
integrate ORCID identifiers into research workflows
Consol Garcia, ORCID Outreach Steering Group
consol.garcia@upc.edu
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-0088
Updated 07/31/14
FOR RESEARCHERS
• ORCID eliminates name ambiguities
• ORCID reduces repetitive data
• ORCID ensures your work (articles,
datasets, grants, …) is discoverable and
connected to you throughout your
career
• ORCID connects you to other identifiers,
and profiles
• You control the privacy of the ORCID
record, determining what, how and with
whom your information is shared
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
• Can create ORCID records on behalf of
their faculty, staff, or students
• Can receive alerts from ORCID on the
research activities of their faculty and
staff. ORCID data can be used to
populate local systems to support
networking and collaboration, to
populate institutional reporting systems,
or for national assessment programs.
• Can include ORCID identifiers in local
systems, such as personnel databases,
identity management systems, or
research information systems, and also
supports interoperability with external
systems.
• May use ORCID record data to update
institutional repositories, grant
management systems, and intellectual
property databases.
Working in collaboration with the research and scholarly
community — universities and research organizations,
universities, funders, publishers, professional associations, and
vendors — the embedding of ORCID iDs is widespread and
includes integration in researcher profile systems, manuscript
submission processes, HR systems, grant applications, and in
linkages with repositories and other researcher identifier
systems. Over 140 members, from every sector of the
international research community.
ORCID
Members
Registry use is international
More than 812,000 iDs issued to
date
Open, non-profit,
community-driven
organization
Content provided in
multiple languages.
Registry supports
entry using multiple
character sets
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-0088
ORCID provides you a unique and persistent personal
identifier that connects you and your research and scholarly
activities throughout your career. ORCID is unique in its
ability to reach across disciplines, research sectors and
national boundaries and in its cooperation with other
identifier systems.
Register for your ORCID today at
http://orcid.org
Publishers Aries, Atlas, Copernicus, EBSCO, Elsevier, EDP Sciences, eLife, Epistemio, Flooved,
Hindawi, Infra-M Academic Publishing, IOP Publishing, Journal of Bone and Joint
Surgery, Karger, Landes Bioscience, Nature, Peerage of Science, PLOS,
ScienceOpen, Springer, Wiley
Associations American Astronomical Society, American Chemical Society, ACSESS, AAAS,
American Geophysical Union, American Mathematical Society, American
Psychological Association, American Physical Society, American Society of
Microbiology, American Society of Civil Engineers, Association for Computing
Machinery, IEEE, Modern Language Association, OSA, Royal Society of Chemistry
Funders US Department of Energy, US Food and Drug Administration, Japan Science and
Technology Agency, US National Institutes of Health, UK National Institute of
Health Research, Wellcome Trust
Universities
and Research
Organizations
Boston Univ, CalTech, Chalmers Univ Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Library, CERN, Cornell Univ, EMBL (EBI), FHCRC, Glasgow Univ, Harvard Univ, IFPRI,
KACST, KISTI, MIT, MSKCC, National Institute of Informatics, NYU Langone Medical
Center, Riga Technical Univ, SUNY-Stonybrook, Univ Oviedo, Univ. Carlos III de
Madrid, Univ Zaragoza, Univ College London, Univ Cambridge, Univ Hong Kong,
Univ Kansas, Univ Manchester, Univ Michigan
IDs ResearcherID, Scopus
Repositories
and Profile
Systems
Altmetric, ANDS, AVEDAS, British Library, Copyright Clearance Center, CrossRef,
DataCite, F1000 Research, Faculty of 1000, figshare, Impact Story, Knode, OCLC,
PubMed Europe (EBI), Symplectic, Thomson Reuters, Uberresearch
• Data Governance: ORCID is committed to maintaining
persistence of the ORCID identifier Registry and data in
its charge
• Organization Governance: ORCID is governed by an
elected Board of Directors, majority non-profit, drawn
from and representative of ORCID member organizations.
Governance documents are posted online
• In addition to the Board of Directors, ORCID has Steering
and Working Groups and an Ambassador program open
to the research community
• Staff: ORCID operations are managed by a full time staff
Profiles or Identifiers
Publishing
25%
Universities &
Research Orgs
45%
Funders
7%
Associations
12%
Repositories &
Profile Sys
11%
EMEA
35%
Americas
50%
AsiaPac
15%
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Website
Trusted Party
• ORCID is a hub that
connects you and
yourresearch and
scholarly activities
through the
embedding of ORCID
identifiers in existing
workflows, data
systems and other
identifier systems.
• The ORCID API supports system-to-system communication
and authentication, further helping to connect research and
researchers around the world.