ORCID

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Id) provides a free, unique, persistent identifier for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities.

ORCID disambiguates you from every other researcher across disciplines, borders, and time. You can connect your iD with your professional information—affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more. You can use your ORCID to share your information with other systems, ensuring you get recognition for all your contributions, saving you time and hassle, and reducing the risk of errors.

Benefits for researchers

  • You will be distinguished from every other researcher, even researchers who share your same name
  • Your research outputs and activities will be correctly attributed to you
  • Your contributions and affiliations will be reliably and easily connected to you
  • You will save time when filling out forms
  • You will enjoy improved discoverability and recognition
  • You will be able to connect your record to a growing number of institutions, funders, and publishers
  • Your ORCID record is yours, for free, forever

Many research funders now require or recommend the use of ORCID iDs, and systems like Researchfish and Je-S also have ORCID capabilities. 

We encourage all researchers to register for an ORCID ID and to use it whenever you publish. You may also wish to connect it with your Pure profile to enable exporting publication records from Pure to ORCID.

How to create or connect your ORCID with your Pure profile (PDF / 311 KB)

How to authorise export of content from Pure to ORCID (PDF / 631 KB)

If you wish to import your research outputs from ORCID into Pure, please refer to the Library's guide on Importing Research Outputs from Online Sources.

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