ORCID Advocacy Toolkit/Themes

A collection of ORCID resources grouped by theme or topic of use.

How to register for an ORCID

Instructions and support on registering for an ORCID.

Benefits of using ORCID

Definitions and examples of the ways that using ORCID benefits individual researchers, librarians, institutions and more.

• Attribution
• Disambiguation
• Independent profiles controlled by academics
• SSO integration with other institutional systems
• Ease of use with other integration systems (Scopus)
• ORCID mandates
• ORCID and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

UK Consortium

Information on the UK ORCID Consortium and links to community pages and resources.

• About
• How to join
• Community and events

Technical Documentation for ORCID

Technical documentation to aide institutions or librarians in using ORCID

• Connecting ORCID to institutional systems
• Case studies
• Integrations
• Reporting
• ORCID brand guidelines
• APIs

PID policies in the wider Education/Research Sector

Links to external bodies that have policies or processes that connect with ORCID

• Funder policies
  • Cancer Research UK
  • National Institute of Health (NIH)
  • National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
  • UKRI (paragraph 4g, p12)
  • Wellcome Trust
• REF2021 (paragraph 21, p5) and future requirements