In August 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a memorandum on public access to federally funded research (known as the “Nelson Memo”). This memo requires federal agencies to make all federally funded research freely available. To facilitate this, it also includes specific guidance on digital persistent identifiers (DPIs, also known as persistent identifiers (PIDs)) for researchers, in accordance with the NSPM-33 Implementation Guidance.
Although ORCID is not mentioned specifically in the NSPM-33 guidance or the Nelson Memo, ORCID is currently the only DPI/PID option for individuals that meets the requirements stipulated in the NSPM-33 guidance. Most federal funding agencies will require ORCID iDs on proposal submission documents and progress reports by May 2025.
The following policies have been issued after the release of the memo. These may include draft elements or be superseded as changes occur throughout 2025.
My NCBI is the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s dashboard that allows you to manage and save your interactions with NCBI resources. One tool, My Bibliography, allows you to manage your own personal bibliography. To populate this, you can link your ORCID record.
NOTE: For this to be effective, you should first make sure that your ORCID record is set up with publications and other information.
To link your ORCID:
Sign in to My NCBI (Note: To create and sign-in to My NCBI, Temple users are advised to go outside the proxy access through the Libraries and go directly to PubMed)
Click on your username in the upper right corner and select Account settings
Under Linked Accounts select Change and then search for ORCID
Select ORCID under Login Account Options, then enter your ORCID username and password to authorize it
Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) is a feature in My NCBI that creates biosketches. You can link your ORCID record to make it easier to populate your NSF/NIH biosketch for your grant application or annual report.
ORCID’s video tutorial below covers how to connect ORCID with SciENcv.
Adapted from NSPM-33 Guide by ORCID which is used under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
