ORCiD

• ORCiD = Open Researcher & Contributor Identifier
• Your ORCiD record includes your works that you have "claimed" and creates a profile of your scholarly profile that you control
• ORCiD identifiers are free, unique, and persistent identifiers for individuals
• DOI for researchers
• ORCiD reaches across disciplines, national boundaries, and cooperates with other identifier systems (e.g. ResearcherID)
• Non-profit, scholar-driven organization

• Disambiguates individuals. This is especially helpful for people with common names or those who have changed their name.
• Gives you control of your scholarly profile regardless of name changes, variations of your name in publications, or institution changes
• Improves the visibility of your work through a scholarly profile controlled by you
• Required by a growing number of publishers (e.g. Wiley, PLOS, Cambridge University Press, and many others)
• Required or encouraged by a growing number of funding agencies
• Saves you time by allowing information to be entered in one place

Including your ORCiD identifier may be possible or required when you submit a manuscript for publication. This will help to automatically create a new record for that work in your ORCiD record when it's published. Review a current list of publishers who require ORCiD identifiers with submissions.

There are four ways to add works to your ORCiD record:

• Add works by direct import from other systems (e.g. CrossRef, MLA International Bibliography, ResearcherID)
• Add works using an identifier (e.g. DOI, PubMed ID, ArXiv ID)
• Import works from a BibTeX file
• Add your works manually