An introduction to the ORCID identifier prepared for a workshop at New York City College of Technology. The presentation explains why ORCID identifiers are helpful for authors as well as funders as well as how to add your CV to manually or through batch load.

1. ORCID
Mini-Workshop, March 11, 2021
Prof. Monica Berger, Library
Image courtesy of ORCID

2. Workshop overview
• What is an ORCID id?
• Why use one?
• Resources for setting one up
https://orcid.org

3. What?
Identifier for
• Authors (chiefly)
• Publishers
• Funders
Not for journals
Works best with content assigned a DOI
or digital object identifier

4. Why?
• Separate yourself from other
authors with same name
[disambiguation]
• Combine your works if your name has
changed
• Improve accuracy of automated
indexing of your scholarship
• Authorize Crossref [DOI creators] to
automatically keep your record up to
date

5. Why?
• Faster registration and login for
• publisher portals for authors and
reviewers
• Grant process
• Publons for reviewer credit
• Brings together your scholarly
profile for funders, etc.

6. My ORCID

7. This article was added via automation bec it has a
DOI and I used my ORCID to login to publisher
journal portal

8. Opt into notifications
Alert for journal article
Early version (w/o
volume or number)

Full journal publication
Now I can add the full
citation to my CV!

9. Adding your works
• BibTeX is only batch approach except ArXiv ID or PubMed ID
• Export your works from a citation manager, e.g. Zotero, EndNote, RefWorks,
or Mendeley

10. Funders and grantees benefit from ORCID
linkage
• Use your ORCID when applying for a grant
• Helps funder easily review your CV and READ your articles
• Helps funder connect your scholarship to your grant funding

11. Funders and grantees benefit from ORCID
linkage

12. Learn on your own

13. What is ORCID?

14. Quick Tour of the ORCID Record

15. Thank you!
+ Scholarly Publishing
Clinic on-demand and every
last Thursday of the month
Monica Berger
mberger@citytech.cuny.edu
Image courtesy of ORCID