Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCiD) registry launches
25 October 2012
Researchers can sign up for an ORCiD (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) free of charge and build links to their research works, including their publications. Researchers can grant permission to funders, publishers and research institutions to access the information in their ORCiD for use during grant and manuscript submission or when completing job applications.
This automation will help to reduce the administrative burden for researchers. The ORCiD profile will also help researchers receive credit for their published work by unambiguously identifying them as the author or creator across all systems integrated with the ORCiD registry.
The Wellcome Trust is exploring how ORCID identifiers will aid grant application and project evaluation. Liz Allen, Senior Evaluation Adviser at the Wellcome Trust and ORCiD Board member, explains: "Over time, the Wellcome Trust plans to integrate ORCiD identifiers into our online grant application and reporting systems so we can easily link researchers to their works and speed up the application and progress reporting processes for researchers.
"Greater precision and transparency of the research outputs linked to a particular funder or grant is vital to help us better understand the impact of our funding."
Alongside Wellcome, several major research organisations are working to integrate links to the ORCiD registry as part of their work flow, including the National Institutes of Health, F1000, Aries Systems, Nature Publishing Group, Hindawi, Thomson Reuters, Elsevier and the American Physical Society. Through its affiliate ORCiD EU, DataCite is also testing approaches to linking ORCiD identifiers with research datasets.
ORCiD will interconnect with other researcher identifier systems that are currently in use, including Elsevier's Scopus Author ID and Thomson Reuters' ResearcherID. For more information and to sign up for an ORCiD, visit the ORCiD website.
