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Overview
ORCID provides two core functions: (1) a registry to obtain a unique identifier and manage a record of activities, and (2) APIs that support system-to-system communication and authentication. ORCID makes its code available under an open source license, and will post an annual public data file under a CC0 waiver for free download.
For more information on how a research institution can use ORCID, click here.
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ORCID is a service, rather than a collection. It assigns and maintains "iDs", or persistent identifiers for individuals working in the fields of scholarly and scientific research. The purpose of the iD is, according to ORCID, "to ensure that researchers can be easily and correctly connected with their research activities, outputs, and affiliations." Disambiguation and precise identification of researchers and authors is particularly useful to the research platforms, data repositories, and workflow systems in the sciences and social sciences; grant application and publishing systems; association management systems, and other research information systems.
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In February 2020, The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced it signed an agreement with ORCID to recognize recognize ACS reviewers.
In January 2016 the following six publishers announced that "they will begin requiring authors to use an ORCID identifier (iD) during the publication process":
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- eLife,
- EMBO
- Hindawi
- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Public Library of Science (PLOS)
As of January 1, 2016 the Royal Society required its authors to include ORCID iDs at submission.
In June 2015 ANVUR, Italy’s National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Institutes,announced that Italy will implement ORCID on a national scale, and had signed a three-year consortium membership agreement with ORCID. From Alice Meadows on the LIBLICENSE listserv, 22 Jun 2015:
Under the auspices of ANVUR and CRUI (the Conference of Italian University Rectors), 70 universities and four research centers will initially participate in the consortium. This large-scale adoption will underpin the IRIDE (Italian Researcher IDentifier for Evaluation) Project, using a platform developed by Cineca. The project’s goal is to ensure that at least 80% of Italian researchers have an ORCID iD, with links to their research output back to 2006, by the end of 2016. As a result of this agreement, Italian researchers and their institutions will benefit from access to and integration with the ORCID registry, including setting up and maintaining disambiguated records for all researchers and linking these to their publications and other research outputs - leading in turn to a simpler, more reliable evaluation process.
Additional Reviews in Other Sources
A review of ORCID is available in The Charleston Advisor: Anamika Megwalu, "ORCID: Solving the Name Ambiguity Problem." The Charleston Advisor, January 2016, 17(3): 28-30, accessed February 2016.
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