ORCID

Having an ORCID allows your research outputs to be correctly attributed to you, and not to another researcher with an identical name. Furthermore, if you change your name, your ORCID remains the same and continues to bring your work together.

Your ORCID remains the same regardless of whether you switch jobs or work at another institution, allowing you to retain the same account throughout your research career and facilitating populating systems at your new institution with your professional record.

Some funders are now requesting ORCIDs as part of the application process. This helps to reduce the time filling in applications, and also enable funders to confirm your identity.

Manuscript submission systems and peer review processes may stipulate inclusion of an ORCID to speed up processes.

Using ORCID increasingly allows for a single third-party sign in across research systems, avoiding the need to create multiple accounts over different publisher and funder websites.

 

Source: Haak, L. L., Meadows, A. and Brown, J. (2018) ‘Using ORCID, DOI, and Other Open Identifiers in Research Evaluation’, Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, Vol. 3, https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2018.00028

Registering your ORCID account is an online process that should take a couple of minutes. After submitting your registration, you will be directed to your new ORCID record.

You will be asked to register your first and last name, and primary email address (we encourage Oxford Brookes researchers to supply your OBU email address as a secondary  address, if you do not use it as your primary address). You can then set up your notification and visibility preferences. There is further information on these processes.

Easily import your publications using Search and Link, or add them manually. There is further guidance on this process from ORCID.

New publications should be added automatically if you have integrated your ORCID to any participating publishers or systems, such as when submitting a paper. You’ll usually be notified by email and asked to confirm that the publication is yours.  

You can also set up an integration with Oxford Brookes' Converis system to directly transfer historical and newly added publications from Converis to your ORCID profile. Please see the section 'ORCID and Oxford Brookes' below.

Please see our guide to Using ORCID at Oxford Brookes that will take you step-by-step through these actions:

• How to enter your ORCID into Converis.
• How to manually import your publications from ORCID into Converis.
• How to integrate your Converis publication records with ORCID.
• How to affiliate your ORCID profile with Oxford Brookes (and what that means)

If you have received research awards from funding organisations, you can add these to your ORCID profile under the 'Funding' section.

Click on the 'Add Funding' and use the ‘Search and Link’ function, or add information manually.

You can make your funding information private, restricted, or public.

Add your ORCID to your profiles, email signatures, blogs etc to allow others to view your body of research outputs and other related information.

You have the option to include a biography, your employment and educational history, any professional activities you have been involved with, such as invited positions or memberships, and any websites you wish to link to, such as blogs you may have authored, or social media accounts.