ORCID provides you with a persistent digital identifier (a sixteen-digit number) that distinguishes you from every other researcher and allows you to bring together all of your research outputs and contributions. It also allows publishers, funders, and other organisations to confirm your identity and improve their workflows.
Your ORCID belongs to you and not to the organisation or institution that you work with. This allows you to continue using your iD throughout your research career, even if you change institutions, or if you change your name.
Use your unique iD, when prompted, in systems and platforms to ensure you get credit for your contributions. An ORCID will also help towards funding applications, with more research funders requesting an ORCID as part of the application process.
Distinguish yourself from other researchers with the same name
Having an ORCID allows your research outputs to be correctly attributed to you, and not to another researcher with an identical name. Furthermore, if you change your name, your ORCID remains the same and continues to bring your work together.
One identifier throughout your research career
Your ORCID remains the same regardless of whether you switch jobs or work at another institution, allowing you to retain the same account throughout your research career and facilitating populating systems at your new institution with your professional record.
Funder requirements
Some funders are now requesting ORCIDs as part of the application process. This helps to reduce the time filling in applications, and also enable funders to confirm your identity.
Publisher requirements
Manuscript submission systems and peer review processes may stipulate inclusion of an ORCID to speed up processes.
Using ORCID increasingly allows for a single third-party sign in across research systems, avoiding the need to create multiple accounts over different publisher and funder websites.
Interoperability
Source: Haak, L. L., Meadows, A. and Brown, J. (2018) ‘Using ORCID, DOI, and Other Open Identifiers in Research Evaluation’, Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, Vol. 3, https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2018.00028
Register for an ORCID here. The process is simple and free to do. Add information about yourself and import the details of your publications, grants, datasets and more.
Once registered, you can use your unique ORCID in any outputs, allowing others to find the information connected with your account.
ORCIDs are designed to allow a stable link between all of your research activities. You have the option of whether to make any information that is connected with your ORCID public or private, but we would encourage you to make your affiliation with Oxford Brookes public.
Register your account
Registering your ORCID account is an online process that should take a couple of minutes. After submitting your registration, you will be directed to your new ORCID record.
You will be asked to register your first and last name, and primary email address (we encourage Oxford Brookes researchers to supply your OBU email address as a secondary address, if you do not use it as your primary address). You can then set up your notification and visibility preferences. There is further information on these processes here.
Import your publications
Easily import your publications using Search and Link, or add them manually. There is further guidance on this process here.
New publications should be added automatically if you have provided your ORCID to any participating publishers, such as when submitting a paper. You’ll usually be notified by email and asked to confirm that the publication is yours.
Add your funding awards
If you have received research awards from funding organisations, you can add these to your ORCID profile under the 'Funding' section.
Click on the 'Add Funding' and use the ‘Search and Link’ function, or add information manually.
You can make your funding information private, restricted, or public.
Share your ORCID
Add your ORCID to your profiles, email signatures, blogs etc to allow others to view your body of research outputs and other related information.
Add any further information
You have the option to include a biography, your employment and educational history, any professional activities you have been involved with, such as invited positions or memberships, and any websites you wish to link to, such as blogs you may have authored, or social media accounts.
Using ORCID with Converis
Our guide to Using ORCID with Converis will take you step-by-step through these two actions:
- How to enter your ORCID into Converis.
- How to import your publications from ORCID into Converis.