ORCID is an opt-in registry that provides unique identifiers for researchers to connect their contributions across various domains. Its vision is to ensure that all research participants are uniquely identified, fostering a community of over 2.7 million researchers and extensive integrations across sectors. ORCID prioritizes researcher control, community governance, and openness, allowing users to manage their records throughout their careers.

1. ORCID OPENCON OXFORD
Josh Brown
Regional Director, Europe
j.brown@orcid-eu.org
orcid.org/0000-0002-8689-4935
18 NOVEMBER 2016
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2. ONE RESEARCHER MAY HAVE
MANY PROFILES OR
IDENTIFIERS

3. WHAT IS ORCID?
• An identifier for researchers
• A registry
• A set of standard procedures for connecting
researchers to their affiliations and activities
• A committed community building connectors
• An international-scale open research effort

4. ORCID’s vision is a world where all
who participate in research,
scholarship, and innovation are
uniquely identified and connected to
their contributions across disciplines,
borders, and time.

5. CORE PRINCIPLES OF ORCID
• Researcher control
• Community governance
• Openness
• Persistence

6. ORCID IS OPT-IN
• ORCID is an opt-in system
• You own and control your record
• ORCID record is portable and travels with
you throughout your career
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7. ORCID provides plumbing for
research information, the tools to
build trust in digital information

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ORCID is a community effort

9. THE ORCID COMMUNITY
• Over 2.7 million researchers
• 550 members from 39 countries, including
national consortia in the UK, Denmark,
Finland, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany,
Italy, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand and 4
regional consortia in the US
• Over 250 integrations in each sector of the
research community

10. ORCID MEMBERS

11. Spend more time making
contributions and less time
managing them
orcid.org/register

12. INTEGRATIONS BY SECTOR
7%
5%
16%
10%62%
Associations
Funders
Publishers
Repositories/Profile
organizations
Research institutions

13. INTEGRATIONS BY REGION
15%
52%1%
2%
30%
Asia Pacific
Europe
Latin America
Mid East & Africa
US/Canada

14. PUBLISHER REQUIREMENTS
Other
publishers
requiring
ORCID iDs in
2016: PLOS,
eLIFE,
Science,
Hindawi,
IEEE, AGU…

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ORCID AUTO-UPDATE
Author
• Link own
ORCID to
author profile
• Add ORCID to
co-authors too
Publisher
Embed authors’
ORCID in the
metadata when
the manuscript is
accepted
Crossref
Check authors’
ORCID in the
metadata when
assigning DOIs to
new publications
ORCID
Receive new
publication info
from Crossref
and add to
authors’ ORCID
records
Notified by email

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21. Thank you for your
attention.