ORCID at CSUB

ORCID, which stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a global, not-for-profit organization sustained by fees from member organizations. They are community-built and governed by a Board of Directors representative of their membership with wide stakeholder representation. ORCID is supported by a dedicated and knowledgeable professional staff.

ORCID’s vision is a world where all who participate in research, scholarship, and innovation are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions across disciplines, borders, and time.

In order to realize this vision, ORCID strives to enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and their affiliations by providing a unique, persistent identifier for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities.

Interested to learn more? Please visit their Researcher FAQ for answers to commonly asked questions.

People use “ORCID” or “ORCID iD” interchangeably, but what they’re talking about is a 16-digit number and the associated record (sometimes called a profile) that stores automatic links to all your research, and links all your research with you. By allowing trusted organizations to add your research information to your ORCID record, you can spend more time conducting your research and less time managing it.

More Time for Research

• By allowing trusted organizations to add your research information to your ORCID record, you can spend more time conducting your research and less time managing it.

Name Flexibility

• ORCID helps reduce the negative consequences of name changes so you will no longer be limited to the name you used when you began your career.

Customizing Visibility

• ORCID links all your research together, while you control the visibility of each piece of data. Set your visibility to public to increase your discoverability.

Uniquely Yours

• Distinguish yourself and claim credit for your work while controlling access to your data, no matter how many people have your same (or similar) name.

Reduced Admin Burden

• Experience greater ease as an increasing number of manuscript submission or grant application forms can be auto-populated when you log into their systems with your ORCID, like NIH Biosketch, ScienCV, CiênciaVitae, Portuguese FCT, and OJS.

Portable Profile Data

• Easily share your data between your record and an increasing number of funding, publications, data repositories, and other research workflows.

"ORCID’s vision is a world where all who participate in research, scholarship, and innovation are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions and affiliations across disciplines, borders, and time. We provide an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they share their ideas. We provide open tools that enable transparent connections between researchers, and identifiers for their contributions as well as their affiliations. What may appear to be a humble alphanumeric string in fact offers crucial opportunities to engender trust and support open research."

-ORCID Trust webpage

The ORCID Trust Program provides greater transparency into the components that are foundational to their principles.

1. Individual Control
2. Reliability
3. Accountability
4. Integrit

ORCID Privacy Principles

• You own your ORCID ID and record
• You control who accesses the information in your ORCID record
• You may change access preferences at any time
• You may close your ORCID account at any time
• Organizations may only add information to your ORCID record if you have granted permission for them to do so, and they may only update or remove information that was added by them