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ORCID Membership

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ORCID has become a critical part of the digital infrastructure needed for researchers to share information on a global scale. We enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and their affiliations by providing a unique identifier (an “ORCID iD”) associated with an ORCID record for individual researchers to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities.

MEMBERSHIPS ARE FOR ORGANIZATIONS

A point of clarification: memberships are for organizations. Individual researchers are the heart of everything ORCID does and will always have access to their records and data for free. If you don’t already have an ORCID iD, register for one today!

In order to offset costs necessary to sustain and improve the registry, as well as to deliver the services required to fulfill our mission of connecting research and researchers, ORCID relies on membership funding from the research community. We have over 1,100 members, including research organizations, publishers, funders, professional associations, and other stakeholders in the research ecosystem and are growing strong!

ORCID membership is open to any organization interested in integrating ORCID identifiers. All member fees are used to sustain and develop ORCID for the benefit of the global research community.

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Membership Tiers

ORCID offers two membership tiers for organizations— Basic and Premium (direct and through consortia) — that provide a number of useful benefits. Both tiers allow access to the Member API (Application Programming Interface), which allows your systems and applications to connect to the ORCID registry, including reading from and writing to individual ORCID records with the users permission. 

Both tiers include varying levels of data access, customized integration support, user acceptance testing, as well as a monthly newsletter exclusively for all members, invitations to member-only events hosted by ORCID, and eligibility for nomination for ORCID Board elections.

 Public API
Basic Member APIPremium Member API
Client credentials1 public API credential 1 member API credential5 member API credentials
Access to sandbox test environment
Reading ORCID data   
Provide Single Sign On (SSO)
Collect Authenticated iDs
Search and retrieve public data
Access trusted data (see Visibility settings) Subject to permissions granted by iD holders 
See if a user signed in using 2FA
Public Data File access
Public data file synchronization on demand
Receive update notifications   
Add/Update/delete information from ORCID records   
Add information to an ORCID record* 
Update/delete the information you’ve added to a record 
Support   
Knowledge Base including technical documentation, tutorials, and reference documents
Use cases, best practices, sample communications
Membership of the API Users listserv
Invitations to public events hosted by ORCID
Integration support  (priority queue)
Webinar-style orientation meetings 
Integrated user acceptance testing in preparation for launches and releases 1 integration5 integrations
Other Benefits   
Monthly Newsletter 
Analytics Reports 2/yearMonthly. Personalized, including email domain stats.
Invitations to private ORCID events, such as member town hall meetings
May submit nominations for representative to serve on ORCID Board 
Voting rights in annual ORCID Board election
Participation in current or upcoming Steering Groups and Working Groups and ORCID-hosted virtual and in-person community events

*Subject to permissions granted by iD record holders.

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Help me choose!

To encourage small and start-up organizations to embed iDs, organizations with less than US $200,000 in revenue in their last fiscal year are eligible for a 75% discount on basic or premium membership. Non-profit organizations are eligible for a 20% member fee discount on basic or premium membership fees. Discounts will be evaluated at each membership renewal. Non-profit and start-up discounts are not applied to premium consortium agreements.

We also offer premium memberships through ORCID consortia. Membership through one of the consortia provides many benefits including lower membership fees for most institutions, compared to a direct premium membership. Learn more about ORCID consortia membership below.

CategoryAnnual fees
Basic
Single legal entityUS $5,150
Non-profit- 20%
Small & start-up- 75%
Premium Membership
Small organizations (less than US$200M in annual revenue or grants)US$10,300*
Large organizations (>US$200M in annual revenue or grants)US$25,750*
Non-profit- 20%
Small & start-up- 75%
Additional credentials$3,090 USD per additional credential

*Consider joining ORCID through a consortia and save on annual membership fees.

ORCID Consortia

Groups of organizations interested in a coordinated approach to ORCID implementation; or in  customized orientations, workshops, and follow-up with the ORCID staff to support integration efforts, might be interested in joining or forming a consortium. Learn more here.

No. of membersConsortia fees
5-9 membersUS$6,000/member
10-19 membersUS$5,000/member
20-34 membersUS$4,000/member
35-60 membersUS$3,500/member
61+ membersUS$3,000/member
Additional credentials$1,000 USD per additional credential (Consortium fees may be applicable)

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