1. Introduction to ORCID Ricky Patterson
Research Librarian for Science & Engineering
University of Virginia Library
ORCID Identifier:

2. Who are you?
More than two thirds of authors share a last name and first initial with at least one other author.
An ambiguous name refers on average to eight different authors.

3. What is ORCID Open Researcher and Contributor ID
16 digit unique identifier.
A researcher ID that uniquely identifies individuals and their work.
Increasingly being adopted by publishers, funders and professional organizations.

4. ORCID is open Non-proprietary Open registry, free for individuals
Open data, software, APIs, documentation

5. Your ORCID belongs to you
An ORCID is portable, and travels with the researcher across organizations, institutions and countries.
Allows automated and disambiguous linking to research objects (publications, grants, datasets, patents, as well as other IDs).
User controls what is information is made public.

6. ORCID today Currently 3,902,433 ORCID iDs
Of these, 1,507,481 have external identifiers (names, .
But only 827,179 have works associated with them
…lots of ”empty” profiles
Statistics as of

8. Your ORCID page
Once you sign up for an ORCID iD, you will probably want to fill out your profile, to make it useful.
You can add your educational and employment history, as well as your funding and publication records.

9. Your ORCID page
You can also link to other identifiers such as Researcher ID, Scopus Author ID, as well as personal websites, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Mendeley and Google Scholar Profiles.
You can list alternate names under which you have published. (Married vs. Single; initials vs. full first name).

10. Plumbing
One of the things that makes ORCID so powerful is the plumbing – the connections they have built with existing infrastructure.
For instance, if you submit a manuscript to a publisher with your ORCID iD, ORCID will be notified when this is published and can update your list of publications for you.

11. Find existing publications
ORCID Search & Link tools – leverages existing publishing infrastructure (CrossRef, DataCite, ResearcherID, Scopus ID) to import works into ORCID
Import BibTeX – submit your self-maintained list of publications
Individual entry – add your works one at a time

12. New Publications
You can also choose to authorize CrossRef and DataCite to update your ORCID record.
This will update your publication list automatically (if you use your ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript!)

13. Sign up and sign in Simply go to orcid.org/register
Fill out the form, and verify your
When you login, you will be given the option of using your personal or institutional login, or a social media login.
You will always have a personal login. If you leave your institution, your account follows you.