ORCID for Universities and Research Institutions
When you integrate your systems with ORCID, you can more easily stay up to date with the research that comes from your scholars – while making their lives easier.
Empower your students, faculty and institution by integrating with ORCID
By connecting your researchers’, post-docs’, employees’, and students’ ORCID records with your systems, you’ll be able to:
- save everyone time and reduce input errors by allowing them to pre-populate forms with data from an ORCID record,
- let your researchers spend more time on their research,
- better know who your users are and improve the integrity of your submission, review, and reporting processes,
- follow your researchers’ and graduates’ careers even after they leave your institution. Keep better track of collaborators and peers at other institutions,
- help your researchers, post-docs, employees, and students improve their visibility, and improve the discoverability of their works and contributions, by the scholarly community,
- improve your ability to track the impact of your funding, even beyond the period of performance,
- increase both efficiency and quality in critical processes like assessment exercises,
- meet governmental compliance requirements,
- resolve name discrepancies, and
- control how your institution’s name is used throughout the research ecosystem.
Joining the ORCID community is easier than you think! You can get started with our free-of-charge public services; however to maximize the benefits of ORCID, we recommend you join ORCID as an organizational member, which offers access to additional functionality, dedicated technical support, and of course, the opportunity to actively participate in scholarly infrastructure by supporting ORCID’s work. Better yet, if you are a not-for-profit organization, explore joining an ORCID consortium to access additional discounted membership fees and accelerate integration of ORCID services and resources.
Public Registry Access
- Allow your users to sign in with their ORCID
- Know your users better by reviewing their academic profiles
- Connect your system to read public data from the ORCID registry
- Join our public API Users Group for help and support
Basic ORCID Membership
- Allow your users to sign in with their ORCID
- Know your users better by reviewing their academic profiles
- Request permission from your users to access their trusted (non-public) data
- Connect one system to read from and/or add to the ORCID registry
- Get help from our dedicated Support Team
- Give credit to your users by updating their records with research outputs, IDs, and other relevant data stored in your systems.
Premium ORCID Membership
- Allow your users to sign in with their ORCID
- Know your users better by reviewing their academic profiles
- Request permission from your users to access their trusted (non-public) data
- Connect up to five systems to read from and/or add to the ORCID registry
- Connect more systems for an additional fee
- Get priority technical support from ORCID
- Ensure proper affiliation with your users by updating their ORCID records with your organizational data stored in your system
- Give credit to your users by updating their records with research outputs, IDs, and other relevant data stored in your systems
- Synchronize student, post-doc, researcher, and staff ORCID records with your systems dynamically
Consortium ORCID Membership
- Allow your users to sign in with their ORCID
- Know your users better by reviewing their academic profiles
- Request permission from your users to access their trusted (non-public) data
- Connect up to five systems to read from and/or add to the ORCID registry
- Connect more systems for an additional fee
- Get technical support from your Consortia’s Lead Organization
- Ensure proper affiliation with your users by updating their ORCID records with your organizational data stored in your system
- Give credit to your users by updating their records with research outputs, IDs, and other relevant data stored in your systems
- Synchronize your student, post-doc, researcher, and staff ORCID records with your systems dynamically
- Consortia only: Access to consortia-only tools to add affiliation data to your researchers’ ORCID records quickly, without the need for a developer or specialized IT knowledge
- Consortia only: Discounted premium membership fees
Compare Access Levels
| Unique Identification | Public Registry Access | Basic ORCID Membership | Premium ORCID Membership | Consortia Member ship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reduce the frustration of users managing multiple passwords by allowing them to sign in with their ORCID. |  | | | |
| Seamlessly link your users between different systems and ensure you have the right person in each of your workflows. | | | | |
| Know your users better by collecting authenticated iDs and reviewing ORCID Trust Markers, helping to detect potential misrepresentation and/or misconduct. | | | | |
| Manage Research Information Flow | Public Registry Access | Basic ORCID Membership | Premium ORCID Membership | Consortia Member ship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allow users to pre-populate forms, such as tenure track applications, reducing input errors and easing the burden of submission and review | | | | |
| Improve the quality of the data you collect, including your users’ affiliations, publications, and funding, helping OA policy compliance and reporting. | | | | |
| Recognition and Discovery | Public Registry Access | Basic ORCID Membership | Premium ORCID Membership | Consortia Member ship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add affiliation data to your students’, post-docs’, researchers’, and staff’s ORCID records ensuring your institution’s name is used correctly when that data is ingested by other systems |  | | | |
| Add and update data such as affiliations, funding, and works data to your users’ ORCID records and improve the likelihood that they will be discovered and their work reused and/or cited by other researchers, funders, indexers, and research organizations. | | | | |
| Follow your alumni’s careers after graduation, during sabbatical or secondment, or even after they’ve moved onto new positions by receiving real-time notifications about their research activities. | | | | |
| Transparency and Trust | Public Registry Access | Basic ORCID Membership | Premium ORCID Membership | Consortia Member ship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reduce the burden of institutional and national reporting requirements for your researchers, staff, and students by ensuring that their affiliations with your organization are properly credited in their ORCID records.. | | | | |
| Improve public trust in research by adding affiliation data to ORCID’s open and accessible network of interconnected metadata | | | | |
| Keep local data sources up to date by synchronizing with the ORCID Registry | | | | |
Are you actively using ORCID in your systems and processes?
As an ORCID member involved in research, scholarship, and innovation, you are in a unique position to add trustworthy information about your researchers and their affiliation with you to their ORCID records. By adding validated data to their records, you improve their trustworthiness and actively contribute to the global community trust model espoused by ORCID.
We strongly encourage you to use an ORCID service provider, or plan and build a custom integration that enables you to add and update this information for your faculty, staff, students, alumni, and members. Many popular scholarly service providers, including Research Information Systems, Manuscript Submission Systems, Grant/Facility Application Management Systems, and Repository Systems, have an ORCID integration built in, and are certified by us to adhere to best practices recognized throughout the research ecosystem — all you have to do is turn the functionality on!
Browse ORCID Certified Service Providers.
Alternatively, if you prefer to integrate your own custom systems, our documentation makes it easy to get started; and for members, we provide dedicated personalized support and advice. (There are a lot of benefits to being an ORCID member, and we encourage you to visit our Membership Benefits and Fees page to learn more.)
Workflows and case studies
Discover other Research Institutions that are ORCID member organizations (sort by “Research Institute”.)
Workflows
For more detailed information about how ORCID can be used in various Research and University workflows, explore our documentation:
- Education
- Employment
- Invited Positions
- Membership and Service
- eThesis and Dissertation
Cases Studies
See how other Research Institutions are benefiting from ORCID
Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology and the Value of the ORCID Affiliation Manager
A Use Case for Trust Markers in ORCID Records: Streamlining the Credentialing Process
CIFAR: Innovative Uses of the Affiliation Manager—Invited Positions