Open Researcher and Contributor iD

A tool that offers a solution to the author name and misidentification by providing persistent unique iD’s for researchers.

Benefits of having an ORCID iD

• Avoid misidentification
• Facilitate the interoperable exchange of information – integrates with numerous bibliographic databases, platforms, profiling tools, manuscript submission systems, funders grant workflows, research repositories
• iD is linked to all research activities
• Scholarly work is discovered
• Identification by potential collaborators
• Sharing of iD with others 
• Another added benefit is the ORCID advancement has been integrated with numerous systems
• More benefits for researchers 
• Watch this short video on ORCID 

Updating your ORCID profile

• Add websites and social links to your ORCID - this can be Google Scholar, ResearchGate, research data, Linkedin, supervised work, repository profile, Academia.edu, Semantic scholar, blog, website, laboratory. etc
• How to add other identifiers?
• Add publications by direct import from other systems
• Add publications from Google Scholar by importing works from a BibTeX file
• Add publications manually
• Add publications using an identifier

Step 1: ORCID account

• Create an ORCID account
• Add additional names under "also known as" 
• Add and link websites and social links – this allow researcher to add and link to social media pages like personal websites, Google Scholar, Figshare, ResearchGate, Linkedin, Academia.edu and more
• Add emails and make them visible to the public
• Short videos on how to: Register for your ORCID , Edit your name on ORCID
• The manual provides steps in creating an ORCID account 
• This guide provides illustrative examples on how to add publications to your ORCID account
• Register for an ORCID account 

Step 2: Add personal information

• Add biography
• Add affiliation (i.e. employer)  
• Add academic credentials like education, qualifications, achievements
• Add funding information
• Add membership or service association
• A short video oh how to add personal information

Step 3: Add works or publications into your ORCID 

Add works or publications from Scopus to ORCID 

• Use the search and link wizard ( watch the video below)
• Publications can be pulled from a number of databases like Crossref, DataCite, Scopus/Elsevier and more
• Connect ORCID account with Scopus account and import publications from Scopus to ORCID.
• Here is How to add publications from Scopus into ORCID
• Notes from the guide provide illustrative examples on how to add publications from Scopus
• WATCH this video

Add works or publications from Google Scholar to ORCID

• Follow the steps in this Guide
• Please note the file downloaded from Google Scholar will be listed under downloads

How to add works or publications manually?

• Follow the easy steps in this guide

Step 4: Reset ORCID password, update ORCID records and delete duplicate ORCID iD

• Few steps to reset your password 
• Watch this short video on how to update your ORCID record  
• Link and authorize CrossRef to automatically update ORCID account 

• Steps to remove or delete duplicate ORCID iD's.

Step 5: Add personal websites to your ORCID profile

• Add websites and social links to your ORCID
• Add all your personal website like repository profile (Thesis/dissertation, articles, books....), Google Scholar, ResearchGate, research data from Figshare, Linkedin, supervised work, , Academia.edu, Semantic scholar, blog, website, laboratory, and more
• See how others have added websites and social links in their ORCID profiles 1, 2, 3, 4....

Step 6: Add ORCID iD icon and link to your email signature

• Sign in on ORCID, scroll to Display formats and copy the full green ORCID circle icon, Example:  
• Right-click and copy the ORCID icon and paste it into your email signature
• Copy the ORCID URL and paste it next to the icon
• Click save changes
• An email signature with ORCID icon and link will look like this: