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ORCID

ORCID allows you to create a unique author identifier for yourself to specifically identify your publications. This guide provides information on creating and managing your ORCID profile.

What Is ORCID?

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identifiers) are unique and persistent iDs that you can use as a researcher to identify your scholarly work.

ORCID is internationally recognized and is increasingly being used by funders (e.g., NSF, NIH) and journal publishers (e.g., Wiley and IEEE). These iDs help funders, publishers, scholarly societies, and other researchers to quickly find and distinguish your work from materials created by other researchers with similar names.

As a nonprofit membership organization, ORCID's efforts are open, transparent, and non-proprietary, and ORCID has a clearly articulated privacy policy and centers researcher control.

Learn more about ORCID here.

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Acknowledgments

A very sincere thank you to Talea Anderson, Scholarly Communication Librarian, Washington State University Libraries, and Clara Tran, Head of Science and Engineering at Stony Brook University Libraries, for their generosity in sharing the content and structure of their LibGuides. Cornell University Library and MIT Libraries ORCID LibGuide content also provided inspiration and information for this guide.