It just got easier to make your academic work discoverable with ORCID and the Libraries

Are you on ORCID yet? You might not even know what the ORCID identifier is. But if you’re a researcher or academic, or planning to become one, you need an ORCID iD—and the Libraries makes this easy.

The Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier—or ORCID iD—connects a researcher to their  research output and allows others to access and share that body of work. ORCID streamlines publication submission and enhances discoverability. And, increasingly, granting bodies and journal publishers are requiring ORCID as part of their application process.

It’s now even easier to keep your publications and profile updated across multiple platforms with ORCID through its integrations with the Libraries’ NC State-specific Citation Index and the SciENcv Biosketch tool used for most federal grant applications. The Citation Index is a database of publications by authors affiliated with NC State that can be used to find colleagues with expertise in a particular subject area.

In the Libraries’ Citation Index, you can link your Unity ID with your ORCID profile. This gives you access to Libraries services such as the CV Service, through which we will add all of your publications with a DOI to your ORCID profile on your behalf. This saves you time in maintaining your citations—just add a citation once and then reuse it often across systems, including faculty profile pages.

“The ORCID integration with Citation Index has helped me keep a current catalog of work I am involved with,” says Dr. Carlos C. Goller,  Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. “The automatic updates and easy-to-use Citation Index platform make it a wonderful tool for scholars at NC State!”

Read a complete guide to the Libraries’ integrations with ORCID and register for your ORCID iD here. Libraries staff is also available to help answer your questions through email, one-on-one guidance, and group workshops. Email group-lib-orcid@ncsu.edu for assistance.

ORCID itself is a nonprofit that draws upon a global community of researchers, students, publishers, funders, professional associations, and others in the research realm. Several ORCID ambassadors at the NCSU Libraries want to help faculty, students, and staff at NC State join that community and to ensure that their research and professional activities are better recognized.

About ORCID
The ORCID is a unique, 16-digit, ISO-compatible number. Once you register for free, you can then add information to your ORCID record (some of which will be automatically populated), and link your record to other identifier systems and profiles you might already have such as Scopus, ResearcherID, DataCite, or LinkedIn. So instead of the tedium of duplicate entries, or having to maintain multiple profiles, ORCID saves researchers time and avoids inconsistencies by enabling that information to flow between different systems with minimal effort.

You can link to your ORCID on your website and use it to submit to publications and apply for grants. ORCID automatically connects to an academic’s other profiles and updates itself with each new publication. Major academic publishers such as Wiley require an author’s ORCID as part of their submission process. This enables them to instantly update an author’s ORCID record upon the moment of publication of their work.