How do ORCIDs connect?

ORCIDs are utilized by a number of entities throughout the research lifecycle and across multiple systems allowing researchers to "Enter Once, Reuse Often"

How does ORCID keep my information safe?

You are able to control the visibility of your ORCID profile at any time, including control over the visibility of the information, and control over which trusted organizations and trusted individuals ("trusted parties") can access your record to read, write, or update your information. While your ORCID iD is always publicly visibly, you can adjust visibility of the other portions of your profile. 

How Publishers use ORICDs

Publishers use ORCIDs to identify and link both authors and reviewers, to bring together name variations and works. 

Typically a journal publication workflow will follow the steps below (depending on specific use cases):  

• The author submits an article to the Publisher
• The publisher collects the authenticated author’s ORCID iD and requests permission to interact with their record, and stores that permission.
• The publisher collects data from the author’s record using the ORCID API and uses it to help populate the submission form.
  • This helps to save the author time manually completing information that is already available within their ORCID record.
  • Affiliations, funding, preprints and datasets can all be discovered 
• When a submission is accepted and the article is published, the publisher:
  • Includes the ORCID iDs in the article metadata.
  • Adds the publication to the author’s ORCID record, connecting the person with the publication.
  • Displays the iD within the article and the article metadata
  • Displays the iD on the authors information page
• Optionally, the publisher acknowledges reviewers for their peer review work
• Optionally, the publisher collects co-author and collaborator ORCID iDs and updates their records as well.

A number of scholarly publishers have also begun to require authors provide an ORCID upon submission of a publication. Because ORCID supports a wide variety of work types, a growing number of publishers have opted to add the functionality including:

• Wiley
• PLOS
• American Chemical Society
• The Royal Society
• IEEE
• Sage Publications
• Frontiers
• Springer Nature
• American Geophysical Union, and more.

For more information on this initiative you can see the ORCID Open Letter: One Year On (2017).

Make NOAA a Trusted Organization

You are able to connect your ORCID with another organization's system (i.e., the NOAA Institutional Repository, Datacite, etc.). When doing this you will be asked to grant permission to that particular organization to interact with your ORCID profile. You have control over which organizations you grant permissions to, and you are able to revoke these permissions at any time. When permission is granted to an organization it becomes a Trusted Organization and is added to that section of your profile (in the account settings). By allowing trusted organizations, such as NOAA, to add your research information to your ORCID record, you can spend more time conducting your research and less time managing it. To begin the process of granting the NOAA Library permissions please use our Google Form.

You can grant the following permissions to organizations: 

ORCID records can display and link to a variety of research outputs, including: 

• Books & book chapters, as well as reviews
• Dissertations/Thesis
• Journal articles
• Magazine and newspaper articles
• Manuals/handbooks
• Reports (technical or otherwise)
• Preprints
• Conference papers, proceedings, posters, etc.
• Patents
• Software
• Datasets, and more!

Populating & Maintaining your ORCID

In order to get the full benefits of an ORCID,  you will need to fully populate and maintain the information in  your record. There are a couple different ways to do this:

1. Manually. Once you register, you can manually add in your employment, research, and peer review information. 

2. Import Works. ORCID offers Link Wizards to help you import your research outputs from a variety of systems including ResearcherID, Datacite, Crossref, and more. You can also import works from Google Scholar using a BibTex file.  

For more information on populating your ORCID, please see this guide and the links below.