Tips to Leverage Your ORCID

Abstract

Introduction/Background: An effective scholarly presence means not only publishing research, but also connecting research outputs to an online professional identity. ORCID (Open Research and Contributor ID) is a not-for-profit organization that allows researchers to create a unique persistent identifier to organize their bibliography, datasets, grants, and other works. An ORCID is affiliation-agnostic and keeps researchers with similar names distinct, increasing attribution accuracy.

Workshop Objectives: By connecting their ORCID profile to existing systems, researchers can benefit from automated updates that support validation and efficient presentation of their scholarly outputs. After introducing how to create an ORCID profile, this workshop will move beyond ORCID basics and walk through how to maximize the benefits of a centralized online presence for a researcher’s works.

Methods: This workshop will focus on the steps for setting up connections with three major systems for populating ORCID profiles: CrossRef (an aggregator of metadata for scholarly literature publication outlets), DataCite (similar to CrossRef, but focused on data repositories), and Scopus (one of the most powerful scholarly publishing databases for managing author affiliation information). Attendees will participate in the hands-on processes needed to set up their ORCID profiles if needed, and to open these connections so that in the future they will not need to manually enter data for their profiles to be updated, minimizing maintenance time needed to maintain their scholarly presence.

Learning Goals: Attendees can expect to leave this workshop with a robust persistent record of their research outputs. This will increase the findability and reusability of their research, which will provide avenues for greater scholarly impact. An ORCID profile is not a prerequisite for attending.