1. Funding
Agencies
Other
Research
Identifiers
Research &
Scholarly
Societies
Publishers /
Manuscript
Submission
Systems
Repositories
& More
Universities
& Research
Institutions
THE ORCID : Optimizing Discoverability of Research and Scholarship
As a researcher or scholar, you want to:
Ensure your work is discoverable and connected to you throughout your
career
Minimize the time you spend entering repetitive data online
Eliminate name ambiguity, distinguishing you from other researchers and
ensuring proper attribution
Rebecca Bryant, PhD, Director of Community, ORCID
r.bryant@orcid.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2753-3881
• ORCID improves discoverability of your research and
scholarly works.
• ORCID iDs eliminate name
ambiguities, distinguishing you from other
researchers and scholars and helping to ensure your
work is attributed to you.
• ORCID reduces repetitive data entry associated with
the increasing number and diversity of research
information systems with which you interact.
ORCID connects you to
all kinds of
works, including
publications, datasets, a
nd other identifiers, and
provides search and link
tools to link to your
existing works and
embed the identifier on
new works so that you
don’t have to spend
time updating your
record.
Working in collaboration with
the research and scholarly
community — universities and
research
organizations, funders, publis
hers, 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.
Publishers Aries, Copernicus, Elsevier, EDP Sciences,eLife, Epistemio, Hindawi, Infra-M Academic
Publishing, Karger, Landes Bioscience, Nature, Peerage of Science, ScienceOpen,
Springer, Wiley
Associations AAAS, American Chemical Society, ACSESS, American Geophysical Union, American
Psychological Association, American Physical Society, American Society of
Microbiology, American Society of Civil Engineers, Association for Computing
Machinery, 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, Univ Oviedo, 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, Knode, OCLC, PubMed Europe
(EBI), Symplectic, Thomson Reuters
ORCID Members
You, the researcher or
scholar, control the privacy of
your ORCID
record, determining
what, how and with whom
your information is shared.
If an employer sets up your
ORCID record, upon claim
you maintain sole control of
privacy settings.
Registry use is internationalMore than 240,000 iDs issued to date
Open, non-
profit, community-
driven organization
Content provided in
multiple languages.
Registry supports entry
using multiple character
sets
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.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097
• ORCID is a hub that connects you and
your research 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.
Register for your ORCID today!
It is free and fast. http://orcid.org