Not sure you want to share all your information with the general public? ORCID allows you to specify the visibility setting for any section or individual entry within a section. The three levels of visibility allowed are:
For example, you may want a potential employer to see your entire profile to verify your identity as a scholar, but you may not wish to publicly disclose the year you received your undergraduate degree. You are in control of which details people learn about you when they visit your ORCID record.
Your ORCID record has sections for many types of information:
There are many ways to populate your record with this information including manually, using a delegate, and importing from integrated systems. These options are available by clicking the Add button next to each section of your ORCID record.
Works are your research outputs, e.g., publications, datasets, conference presentations, and more. New types have been added including clinical study, moving image, musical composition, and learning object. There are five different ways to add works to your ORCID record:
* ORCID's Search & Link function allows you to automatically connect your publications to your ORCID record. Every time a publisher or repository connects a work you authored to your ORCID record, you will receive an email notification that a work has been connected to your record. Additional benefits include:
You should use your ORCID iD anywhere you are sharing your research:
For more information, see ORCID’s display guidelines. The ORCID iD icon can be downloaded from the ORCID brand library.
Adapted from ORCID Toolkit for Liaison Librarians by Erica Finch which is in the public domain and ORCID: Get started with ORCID by MIT Libraries which is used under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
