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What information do qualifications contain?

March 26, 2021 By Tom Demeranville

ORCID has a separate section in the ORCID record to record information about qualifications, accreditation, certificates and badges. Each qualification item will always contain: The qualification titleThe provider’s Organisation ID (e.g. GRID ID)The date it was added to the ORCID recordWho added the qualification (the source) They may contain: The validity date, including an end Continue Reading

How do I request a new identifier to be added to the list of existing identifiers?

July 20, 2020 By Paula Demain

As a benefit of ORCID membership, organizations can ask ORCID to support additional PID types in the ORCID Registry.  For example, a member could request that we add support for the PIDs they use for identifying samples or datasets in their geology database.  This enables links between the samples and the people who collected them. Continue Reading

What is a put code?

February 11, 2020 By Paula Demain

Each item in the ORCID iD is assigned a put code which uniquely identifies it. When reading an entire record or section, the put code can be found as an attribute of the item. When calling a specific item on a record, the put code is used to identify the item. Put codes are unique within Continue Reading

How does the Crossref Auto Update integration work?

January 23, 2020 By Paula Demain

Any author where their publisher uses Crossref for their DOI registration can benefit from the Crossref auto update integration. Publishers need to include the authenticated ORCID iDs for their authors within the metadata sent to Crossref at DOI registration. Crossref will then request permission from the author via a notification to their ORCID inbox to Continue Reading

What citation format do you prefer?

January 16, 2020 By Paula Demain

ORCID provides a free text citation field so that information can easily be entered in text format by researchers. However, we strongly encourage all API users to add citations in BibTeX, which is machine readable. The venerable format, despite pre-dating the internet, can be transformed into the desired format by integrations and authors. It is Continue Reading

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