Why Get an ORCID?
More Time for Research
By allowing trusted organizations to add your research information to your ORCID record, you can spend more time conducting your research and less time managing it!
You can read more about connecting organizations here.
Name Flexibility
ORCID helps reduce the negative consequences of name changes so you will no longer be limited to the name you used when you began your career.
Customize Visibility
ORCID links all your research together, while you control the visibility of each piece of data. Set your visibility to public to increase your discoverability!
You can read more about visibility and privacy settings here.
Uniquely Yours
Distinguish yourself and claim credit for your work while controlling access to your data, no matter how many people have your same (or similar) name.
Read more about unique identifiers here.
Reduced Admin Burden
Experience greater ease as an increasing number of manuscript submission or grant application forms can be auto-populated when you log into their systems with your ORCID, like NIH Biosketch, ScienCV, CiênciaVitae, Portuguese FCT, and OJS.
Canada's Tri-Agencies have begin rolling out ORCID support for some grant applications, allowing ingest of publication history direct from ORCID without having to jump through extra hoops. These services will only expand as new grant management systems are rolled out across national funding infrastructure. Imagine your funding data automatically added to your records while your publication history requires no arduous coping and pasting!
Portable Profile Data
Easily share your data between your record and an increasing number of funding, publications, data repositories, and other research workflows.
You can read more about research transactions here.
Optimize your ORCID
The more well-populated ORCID records there are, the more value that both researchers and the entire community can gain from participating in ORCID.
Below are some helpful tips that you can do right now to optimize your ORCID record. ORCID also offer extensive support materials for more ideas.
- Connect your record // In your record, you have access to nearly 1,200 integrations across research and academic institutions, publishers, funders, and other service providers and more are being added all the time! Learn how to connect your record here.
- Ensure your work is discoverable // Did you know the visibility of each piece of data in your ORCID record is controlled by you? Learn how to adjust visibility to make your work discoverable—or keep some things private or shared only with your trusted organizations. It’s up to you!
- Enhance discoverability of your funding history // Add funding information to your record by manually.
- Automatic updates to your record as you publish // Ensure that data such as peer reviews and other works automatically get pushed to your record when they become available by linking your record with Datacite, Crossref or Publons.
Get help with your ORCID
Not only does ORCID offer extensive help documentation, UNB Libraries are also happy to assist you in getting started with ORCID if you prefer a more hands on approach. Please don't hesitate to contact Mike Nason, Open Scholarship & Publishing Librarian, for assistance with any of the following:
- signing up for an ORCID
- configuring automatic updates
- adding prior publications using DOIs
- metadata questions and concerns
- configuring visibility