We talk about ORCID in our Researcher Identity session but we thought we'd give it its own section as well.

1. ORCID:
what is it and why
should I get one?

2. What’s ORCID?
ORCID stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID
It’s a string of numbers that uniquely identifies a researcher, much like a DOI uniquely identifies a journal
article
Here’s what an ORCID looks like: 0000-0002-0905-7594
ORCID is a not-for-profit organisation that is driven and supported by research funders, universities and
publishers
There are 3.3 million ORCIDs (as of May 12th 2017)
Many publisher and funder systems now require an ORCID – if you haven’t been asked for yours yet, you
probably will be soon
It only takes ~30 seconds to sign up!
orcid.org

3. What else does it do?
Once you’ve got your unique identifier it can be used in numerous systems that you’ll engage with as a
researcher. ORCID comes with some additional functionality that you might be interested in taking
advantage of as well.
You can create an ORCID profile, which you can use as a non-institutional record of your research
activities. Wherever you go in your career you’ll be able to take your ORCID profile with you.
You can add information about your education, employment, awards and publications. You can also set up
links with publications indexes so that information about your publications is automatically populated for
you.

4. What does an ORCID profile look like?

5. What does an ORCID profile look like?
ORCID – everything after the
orcid.org/
Keywords – a list of words that
describes your research interests
Links – other web profiles that may be
of interest
Publications – a list of publications
that you’ve contributed to

6. What else does it do?
You can use ORCID to find other researchers that are interested in similar topics. This might be useful for
finding out about research that you didn’t previously know about and could even be a good way of
identifying future collaborators.
You can use the advanced search feature to search for researchers by keyword. Make sure you add
keywords to your profile so that you can be found!

7. Does it integrate with Elements?
You can add your ORCID to your Liverpool Elements account (go to Menu > Search settings and then
Configure in the Source-specific search terms list).
Publications added to your ORCID profile are then automatically added to your publications list in Liverpool
Elements without you needing to claim them. You’ll still need to upload your accepted manuscript to
comply with the REF open access policy but this should save you a bit of time.

8. It integrates with ResearchFish too!
Next time you submit a report to ResearchFish, you’ll be able to enter your ORCID and save time entering
information about your publications – more info available via the ORCID website.

9. Sign up for an ORCID
There’s three steps and it shouldn’t take very long. Go to orcid.org to register and claim your unique
identifier.