ORCID, or Open Research and Contributor Identifiers, are unique IDs that you can use as a researcher to identify your academic work. The IDs help funders, publishers, scholarly societies, and other researchers to quickly find and distinguish your work from materials created by other researchers with similar names. ORCIDs are being used increasingly by publishers as requirements for submissions.
To get started with ORCID, follow these three steps:
- Get an ORCID for free at https://orcid.org/register. Use the email provided to you by The Chicago School.
- Add your scholarly works. Once you've created your ORCID account, you can add works to your record, set up automatic updates, or delegate management of your account to someone else.
- Use your ORCID account on your webpage, when you submit publications, on grant applications, and in other research workflows to ensure that you get credit for your work.
