ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier) is “an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers.”
An ORCiD® identifier is a permanent 16-character identifier for researchers. Your ORCID iD belongs to you. You get to decide what information you associate with it, who can see this information and which other organizations can add information on your behalf. You can keep adding to it throughout your research career, no matter your affiliation.
Benefits of ORCID include:
Attach your ORCID to all of your work throughout its life cycle -- from grant applications to publications to datasets and more.
As a member of ORCID, ODU is making it possible for you to easily share your research information and keep it up-to-date. "Enter once, reuse often" is the purpose of ORCID which makes connections to many of the funders, publishers, and research systems (eg, Digital Measures) that require your publication and research output information.
Having an ORCID has become a requirement of research funders and publishers.
As stated in the August 25, 2022 Memorandum "Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research," (PDF – Links to an external source and may not be accessible) persistent identifiers will be needed for all research outputs (including articles, data, reports, etc) and for individual researchers -- these are also part of the recently released NSPM-33 (PDF – Links to an external source and may not be accessible)(National Security Presidential Memo 33) Requirements.
ORCID has become the standard researcher identifier.
