Organization identifiers are a key component of the ORCID vision: the ability and responsibility for employers of researchers to assert affiliation, associating the person’s ORCID iD with the organization iD […]
ORCID Receives Follow-on Funding from Helmsley Charitable Trust
I am delighted to announce that ORCID has been awarded further funding by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. This 18-month, $1.84M award follows our initial $3M […]
ORCID: We won’t be sold
Update 19 March 2025: Read our 2025 reflections on our progress against the values and goals in the blog, ORCID: Still Persistent, Still Independent. ORCID was founded to deliver a […]
Step by Step: Collecting and Connecting ORCID iDs in the Publishing Process
Increasingly, publication processes are relying on the use of an identifier infrastructure to enable workflows and information processing. Crossref has been providing persistent identifiers (DOIs) for articles since 2000, and connecting […]
ORCID Security Incident
ORCID Security Incident Yesterday (February 18) we experienced a security incident with the web interface of the ORCID Registry that affected 46,823 users (~2.5% of ORCID records). ORCID record information […]
Updates to ORCID Governance: Member Elections and More
ORCID is excited to announce a number of major changes to its governance structure to allow for greater transparency and participation by its membership. Elections The Board has amended the […]
Publishers to Start Requiring ORCID iDs
One of the questions I’m often asked is when ORCID will reach the “tipping point”. Adoption is widespread: close to two million researchers have registered, over 200 systems have integrated […]
The ORCID mantra for 2016: Sustain, Lead, and Mature
2015 was an exciting year. We were awarded a major grant, doubled in size from 10 staff in four countries to 21 in ten countries, and made substantial gains in […]
2015: The Year in Review
As the year nears its close, it is time to mark up to our goals and give thanks to those who helped us along the way. Sustainability ORCID is a […]
The Importance of Opt-In
ORCID was founded on the principle that researchers should have control over their information. To honor this principle we have a strong privacy policy, which was designed to take account […]