We are constantly working to improve the user experience! Feature Friday is where we let the community know about updates we’ve made to the ORCID Registry and the Member Portal.
16 May, 2025
Our latest updates to the Registry include reducing the Public API usage limit for anonymous users from 50k calls per day to 25k. As you may recall, last year we began implementing API traffic management controls to help ensure that costs of supporting ORCID are shared fairly among our community, and that the heaviest users of our services shoulder their fair share of the burden. You can read more here.
In our continuing efforts to help researchers populate their records, we created a new page at sign-in that will prompt users who have a professional email address in the domain yet have no employment affiliation on their record. The prompt will suggest an affiliation to the user in the same way as we do at registration using the email domain on the users’ record. Additionally, we removed the SMID (Share My iD), which was not widely adopted. Lastly, we conducted routine maintenance and fixed a small number of bugs.
18 April, 2025
Our recent updates to the Registry include updating the Public API usage limit for anonymous users to 50k calls per day. We also improved the 404 page behavior for users who are not signed in. Additionally, users are now able to remove themselves as a trusted delegate on another user’s ORCID record. We also removed the Google sign-in. Lastly, we performed routine maintenance and fixed a small number of bugs.
28 March, 2025
Our latest round of updates to the Registry includes updating the Public API usage limit for anonymous users to 75k calls a day as we work towards refining our Public API traffic. Additionally, we added more organizations from ROR data that will be used to suggest affiliations to our users and generate email domains.
We also updated our Spam detection process, which will help us continue to reduce the number of Spam records within the Registry. Finally, we improved the email and domains UI to reduce confusion around the validated data and verification status, as well as conducted maintenance and fixed a small number of bugs.
7 March, 2025
Our latest Registry update encourages OAuth users who are using ORCID as a sign-in method to another system to update the visibility settings of their email domains.
We’ve also fixed a number of bugs for the organization typeaheads, which includes ensuring that our data is kept up to date with the ROR data when any changes are made. Now, the Region/State/County will display when organizations are selected from the typeaheads using ROR data. This had previously been removed in ROR 2.0 but has been reinstated, so we are working to ensure that new organizations moving forward will include this data, if applicable. Lastly, we’ve done routine maintenance.
28 February, 2025
To help ensure that costs of supporting ORCID are shared fairly among our community, and that the heaviest users of our services shoulder their fair share of the burden, we implemented the Public API usage quotas and rate limits in our latest update. More information about this change can be found on the blog.
We updated the “Reactivate my account” email so that it’s consistent with our current UI and support documentation. This also includes employment affiliation suggestions using the email domain used to reactivate the ORCID account. Additionally, we removed primary email text from email modal and notice panels.
Additionally, we also improved the 404 page, which will be shown for any incorrect URLs entered, including incorrectly typed ORCID IDs URLs. Please note that we still have a small amount of work to complete on the correct URLs where the user needs to be signed in to access.
Small tweaks include the new work type functionality that has gone live including adding “Report” back in the UI work type menu. Lastly, we made some bug fixes and performed maintenance.
24 Jan, 2025
The first update to the ORCID Registry for 2025 included a major, long-awaited update that promises to make ORCID records more usable for arts and humanities scholars. We introduced 13 new work types, including musical compositions, still and moving images, and public speeches. We also organized categories to make it easier for researchers to find and choose the work type that best suits their needs, without being overwhelmed by a long list of ambiguous choices. We have also aligned these new work types with the Resource Types vocabulary maintained through the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). Please see our latest blog for more information.
Additionally, we have increased the number of email domains and subdomains within the Registry to improve the affiliation suggestions to users when they register for an ORCID. Any new email domains that are automatically generated will have the same visibility as the email that the domain was derived from.
We’ve also made small tweaks relating to the Public API usage quota in preparation for the changes that will go live next month. Read more about the upcoming change to the API Traffic Management Controls on the blog.
Lastly, we’ve standardized the notice panels, which are used throughout the UI to provide a consistent user experience for warning and error messages, made a number of bug fixes, and performed routine Registry maintenance.
13 December, 2024
In our previous update, we added a prompt to users to make their verified professional email domains publicly available. We’ve now updated the prompt so that it is also shown to users that sign in directly to their ORCID record and when they are signing into other systems using their ORCID account credentials. Only users who have a professional verified email address that does not have an email domain already available on their public record will see the prompt once.
We have also included ORCID Email Validation as the source name for API responses when reading records that have a professional verified email address. This brings the API in line with the user interface.
22 November, 2024
With our latest Registry update, we now prompt users to make their verified professional email domains publicly available, if they haven’t already done so, when they are signing into other systems using their ORCID account credentials.
By sharing email domains publicly in their ORCID records, researchers can help prove their association with organizations without having to make their full email addresses public. We expect that this encouragement will significantly increase the number of organization-related trust markers in active ORCID records, contributing to the overall trustworthiness of scholarly information systems.
We also fixed a small number of bugs and performed routine maintenance.
8 November, 2024
Our latest Registry release includes the 2024 Public Data file, now available on Figshare. We’ve also added new categories to the record summary panels, including Email domains, Research Resources, and Education and Qualifications.
Additionally, we’ve made improvements to the email domain functionality for verified institutional email domains. Now it shows the email address and email domain if the email address is publicly available. This will ensure that the new trust marker is available within the summary UI and the summary/endpoint for the member API if the email address has a public visibility setting. Additionally, we started collecting email verification data to allow us to show these in the UI when applicable and also completed updates to show the source, source icon, and verification date where applicable for public email addresses and email domains
Our latest update also included a number of small text updates to the Public API Developer Tools page to make it clearer that public API credentials should be used to gain a higher usage quota than the ORCID Anonymous API, and that the functionality is not available to corporate companies. Lastly, we fixed a small number of bugs.
27 September, 2024
Our latest updates to the Registry include small UI updates to institutional sign-in, which brings it up-to-date with sign-in and registration panels. There are no changes to the actual functionality.
We also added an option for researchers to add a Trust Marker to their records via their verified professional email addresses. This means researchers can demonstrate their association with an institution even if their institution does not yet have a direct integration with ORCID. What’s more, this can be done in a way that also preserves their privacy, without the need to share their entire email address. The new field will have the same visibility setting as the email address but can be updated by the user. This new field is a key Trust Marker for Research Integrity checks completed by Publishers and Funders.
Read more on the blog about this significant improvement to the ORCID Registry! Trust Markers in ORCID Records: Verified Email Domains
30 August, 2024
Our recent updates include adding ORCID inbox permission notification data to our reporting data warehouse. We also made changes to the inbox notification and email to make it clearer to users when a change has been made to the Professional Activities section of their ORCID record. Lastly, we made a number of bug fixes.
9 August, 2024
Our latest updates to the Registry include a new ORCID homepage. We also included all organization name data from ROR within the affiliation and registration typeaheads. This allows users to search and select any of the different name variants that ROR holds for their organization. Additional changes include updates to the way email addresses are handled in your record to improve general usability. Finally, we fixed a number of bugs.
26 July, 2024
Our latest updates to the Registry include an improvement to how quickly our premium members can sync their systems with the ORCID Registry. Secondly, record holders can now see external identifiers in their inbox notifications and will now receive inbox notification emails for all activities. Lastly, we added RAiD (Research Activity Identifier) to the list of supported identifiers.
28 June, 2024
Our latest updates to the Registry include an upgrade to ROR 2.0 to enable us to work toward providing better multi-language support. When complete, researchers will be able to search for organizations in their own language within the typeahead which will return results based on the data held within ROR.
We have also made changes to grouping functionality to show more validated items on the public record. We made the user interface consistent so all items have a source icon, and we have reduced the potential for error by preventing users from grouping a large number of works manually at one time. Lastly, we also made sufficient text alternatives to accessibility.
7 June, 2024
Our latest Registry update includes a migration to a new storage system for our member logos due to system limitations of our previous storage software. We also made a few accessibility improvements: some bug fixes, as well as updates to the page header and page footer in preparation for the new homepage, which should be released next month. Lastly, we removed a confusing warning message for users that add works using an ISBN. We previously used WorldCat to validate the ISBNs but this has been disabled due to changes with the API.
17 May, 2024
Our latest updates to the ORCID Registry include a new endpoint to the member API, which enables our member community to read the summary information from ORCID records. Record summaries can be embedded directly within other applications, such as manuscript submission systems, putting the information directly in front of editors and reviewers. ORCID record summaries are simply intended to make it easier to use the information already in ORCID records when reviewing submissions, and we expect it to become one tool among many that are employed by publishers in coming years to restore confidence in the integrity of the scholarly record. Read more about record summaries here.
Additionally, we are improving our TypeAhead (autocomplete) search feature for organizations in the ORCID record, improving the search results for both funding and affiliations, making it quicker for researchers to locate their organization. We also made improvements to the Sign-in and OAuth to bring them in line with the registration changes that were implemented earlier this year. Lastly, we fixed a number of UX bug fixes that improve the user experience.
26 April, 2024
Our latest Registry update includes a new member API endpoint for record summaries, which allows members to be able to read the new summary information and use it within their own integrations. We are also now collecting daily API usage stats, which will allow us to analyze the use of our public API. Additionally, we added a feature in typeahead search to recognize accent marks and other diacritics to make it easier for researchers to locate their organization within the search results. Furthermore, we made adjustments to spam detection, which will help us continue to reduce the number of spam records within the Registry. We also are including validated items within groups to be included in the summary, even if not a preferred source. This will help to increase the number of validated assertions within the researchers’ public record summary, depending on their visibility settings. Lastly, we also made a number of maintenance and bug fixes.
19 April, 2024
In an effort to help our users more easily see Trust Markers in an ORCID record our latest Registry update includes a new expandable Record Summary view at the far right of the record header. When expanded, a summary of the record’s provenance data is revealed, as well as when the record was created and last updated. To read more about ORCID Record Summaries, visit this support page article. We have also completed updates in the sign-in and Oauth pages to fix accessibility and usability issues.
22 March, 2024
Our latest release includes a new header for the public records to bring a researcher’s name(s) and ORCID iD together in a clearer, easier-to-understand layout. It’s now easier than ever to tell at-a-glance if you are looking at the right ORCID record. The new layout and structure also resolves some long-standing accessibility issues and paves the way for the upcoming record summary feature. The new header does not change the users’ view when logged into their ORCID record. To improve user experience, we also removed the footer from the summary page, which was loading before the summary information and when embedded using an iFrame. Lastly, we made a number of bug fixes.
23 February, 2024
Our latest release makes it easier for researchers to populate their ORCID record right from the beginning! Now when a new user registers they will be prompted to add an employment affiliation either manually, or from a suggestion based on the email domain being entered. We also streamlined the user interface by removing all infosite links from Registry pages, apart from ORCID’s homepage. Lastly, we fixed a number of bugs.
25 January, 2024
Our most recent release includes small tweaks to the ORCID summary widget. We also allowed all work types to be used as a peer review subject type and fixed a bug to allow the printable version of the record to load. We are working towards improving our resiliency and reliability of our infrastructure by migrating the hosting of the ORCID Registry to Amazon Web Services. In the immediate term, this move will reinforce our resiliency against technical outages. In the longer term, it will allow ORCID to leverage enhanced support capabilities and access new services on demand for future development requirements, ultimately increasing the efficiency and throughput of our Technical Team.
12 January, 2024
Our most recent update included sending a new email that will encourage users who have no works on their record to use one of our most popular Search & Link wizards. Certain criteria must be met for this email to be triggered. Full details can be found here.
We also addressed a number of maintenance and small bug fixes.
22 December, 2023
In our final release for 2023, we have completed a newly updated registration form, which resolves a number of outstanding accessibility issues and encourages users to add a second email address. We’ve also added ORCID branding and footer to our OAuth sign-in page. Lastly, we’ve added cookie consent to support.orcid.org and conducted maintenance and some bug fixes.
1 December, 2023
Our most recent updates include changes to the email verification email content to clarify the process for researchers, as well as increasing the reminders sent from 2 times to 4 times. Additionally, we are now capturing event data within the database, which will be used for member reporting in the future. Lastly, we conducted routine maintenance and made small bug fixes.
10 November, 2023
Our latest updates to the Registry include the creation of two new internal endpoints, which will help to to determine professional and personal email domains, plus organization details. These endpoints will be used in the UI to help prompt users to add affiliation information and additional email addresses in future releases. Additionally, we have added a new sort that allows users to sort by validated and self-asserted items. Lastly, we made a small number of bug fixes and conducted routine maintenance.
27 October, 2023
Our latest updates to the Registry included a bug fix for federated sign-in where some users with accents in their name were unable to access the Registry via this method. We also removed unused Google Analytics properties and fixed some bugs with the ORCID record summary. Last but not least, we generated the 2023 public data file for Open Access week!
1 September, 2023
In addition to our new cookie consent policy (see 18 August release notes, below), our most recent updates to the Registry include changes to the visibility indicators for the names, biography, and sidebar that contains the emails, keywords, countries, etc. to be consistent with the Activities section of the ORCID record. Additionally, emails that are sent from the Registry like password reset, What/s my ORCID iD?, etc. now have a consistent footer with a link to our support site. Lastly, we have disabled the Ringgold importer. (Read our FAQs for more information about ORCID support for RINGGOLD ending.)
The Member Portal has also undergone some recent updates. Now, all members are able to manage the member name, address, and trademark license information alongside the existing functionality of public display information and contact names and roles. Consortia Leads are now able to manage their own membership information, as well as maintaining their consortium member membership information too. We’ve also updated the user guide to reflect these changes. Additionally, we fixed the bug that had stopped displaying the API error response within Affiliation Manager for the records that had the status “Error adding to ORCID” and “Error Updating ORCID.” Lastly, the number of “Active iDs” are now included on the Consortia Lead Dashboard.
18 August, 2023
As part of our ongoing effort to maintain the trust and integrity of ORCID, we recently took steps to improve the way we manage cookie preferences on our websites. The changes are intended to bring us into compliance with the latest cookie regulations around the world, including the EU ePrivacy Directive, the California Consumer Privacy Act and the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. Like most websites, ORCID uses cookies to ensure stability and security of our services, to remember settings such as language preference or interface display options, and to collect aggregate, anonymous usage data to analyze trends and assist us as we continue to develop useful functionality and content for our users.
For the first time, we have unified cookie consent across our main Registry site, our info site, and (soon) our user support site. Now, when you first visit one of our sites, you will be prompted with a message to allow you to opt in to non-essential cookies. Note: If you reject functional cookies, you may still use our services, but your ability to use some features or areas of our sites may be limited.
ORCID does not allow third-party service providers to track our users across the web, or target them for advertising. As part of implementation of this project, we have scanned all 30,000+ pages of our info site, and eliminated a handful of cases where we’d inadvertently allowed tracking cookies to be loaded via embedded third-party content.
For information on how ORCID collects, receives, uses, stores, shares, transfers, and processes your personal information, as well as your rights in determining what we do with the information that we collect through our Websites, please read our Privacy Policy as well as our article on the types of cookies we use.
28 July, 2023
Our most recent batch of updates on the Registry includes a new Developer tools page for managing Public API clients. We also released a new Professional activities section of an ORCID record. Professional activities is a new section that groups Membership, Service, Invited positions, and Distinction items within the Registry. Additionally, we have now fully automated our SPAM detection process. We’ve also added a new icon to the source to show clearly if the information was added by a member or the ORCID record holder. Lastly, we made a number of bug fixes.
30 June, 2023
In the Registry, we have removed RINGGOLD organizations from the typeahead, which will prevent users being able to manually add affiliation or funding items associated with these orgs when there is no ROR available. Users can still add manually where required if no organization appears within the typeahead, but the item will have no organization ID. (Read our FAQs for more information about ORCID support for RINGGOLD ending.) Additionally, page titles now change as users move through different pages within their ORCID account. Lastly, this update included continued SPAM improvements and a number of bug fixes.
16 June, 2023
Our latest update to the ORCID Registry includes the addition of Turkish, Polish, and German to the list of supported languages, bringing the total number of supported languages to 15! This means that ORCID now supports 95% of the languages of our users. We’ve also made small fixes to the visibility widget and an update to the main peer review item count to include the number of reviews across the number of journals and grants.
Additionally, we made a significant change to the Member Portal. Now Consortia Leads will be able to manage their consortium members with the options of adding and removing consortium members.
26 May, 2023
The most recent update to the ORCID Registry includes an updated SPAM detection process, which will help us reduce the number of SPAM records created by bots and link farmers hoping to gain an advantage in search engine rankings.
We also made some changes to the visibility widget to ensure that it is accessible to all. We’ve also included the length header within webhook requests to prevent a number of webhooks being rejected by member integrations, improving the process of synchronizing the ORCID Registry with external systems.
Additionally, we made an update to the Member Portal that allows all members and consortia lead organizations to be able to manage their own ORCID membership contacts from within the portal.
28 April, 2023
Our latest update to the ORCID Registry includes further accessibility enhancements to make it easier to use for all. We’re also now making use of the ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) Portal to ensure Peer review Group names in the Registry are kept up to date.
If you’ve spotted a bug in the Registry, we might have fixed it by now. Here’s the latest roundup of fixes we’ve just completed in the latest sprint.
- Added table formatting to the external identifiers page (https://pub.orcid.org/v3.0/identifiers)
- Ensured the ROR identifier is used as the default when available for affiliations added manually
- Updated the external ID URL automatically when the external ID is updated
- Prevented the last modified date and time being updated if a save to the names modal is made without any data being updated
- Email verification banner displaying at the top of the My ORCID page (the UI of your ORCID record) to encourage users to verify their email addresses.
- Redirect URI issue with double calls being made which resulted in the auth code being invalid
- In addition to a number of maintenance tasks, our latest updates to the Member Portal includes enhanced access to the affiliation dashboard report, which is now available to all members. This will enable research organizations to monitor outreach and track their researchers. We’ve also made a small change to the way that we show contacts within the member’s homepage in preparation for allowing members to manage their ORCID membership contacts. This includes further organization and contact information within the microservice to allow us to display this information on the homepage in a future sprint.
Additionally, Consortia Leads now have access to a new report entitled “Consortia Members Affiliations,” which shows affiliation data for the consortium members and allows Consortia Leads to drill through to the consortium members’ own affiliation dashboard. We’ve also begun investigation on the best way to allow Consortia Leads to manage their Consortium Members data via the Self Service functionality.
21 April, 2023
Since the last update, we have been hard at work reviewing the development that was completed in the last round and planning the work for the next sprints—for both the ORCID Registry and the Member Portal. We did not deploy a release for the Member Portal this time, but we plan to release the development in the next sprint cycle.
On the Registry side, we have just released upgrades of many libraries, which will help us to maintain the security and integrity of the Registry. We also fixed a bug that affects how certain names are displayed within the contributor list when imported by BibTeX. With our accessibility improvements, we made a number of updates to make it easier for everyone to use our services. That’s a wrap. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
24 March, 2023
Our latest releases for the ORCID Registry include more accessibility improvements and upgrades to our technology stack to improve service resilience. Additionally, we implemented Google Analytics 4 side-by-side with Google Universal Analytics. This will allow us to provide continuity within member reporting when Google Universal Analytics ceases operations. We also implemented Google Tag Manager so that we can provide improved cookie consent management in the future.
ORCID member organizations will see that we have made some upgrades to their Member Portal interface, specifically in the user view, where we removed the Admin column, as it was causing confusion for some users as it was not an option that could be selected. We’ve also improved security for logged-in users. Lastly, we added missing translations to the Affiliation Manager and created some automated tests to improve the testing process.
24 February, 2023
We have just finished some new releases for the ORCID registry and the Member Portal. Take a look at all the new upgrades and fixes we have in store.
In the ORCID registry, we continued to make great progress with our ongoing accessibility improvements. Recent updates include full translations for accessible form field labels and supporting copy in all of the core forms in the registry.
We also made a fix that prevents ORCID Inbox notifications being sent to users when a member has pushed an update to their record but without any changes to the existing content. This will reduce the amount of user confusion, as well as ensure that any notification that comes from ORCID is useful to record holders.
Because we have over 16 million records, we required a new block of identifiers. ISNI, the organization ORCID coordinates with to release the 16-digit unique identifiers, has released a new range reserved for ORCID defined between 0009-0000-0000-0000 and 0009-0010-0000-0000.
The new in-record guidance we’ve added to the registry—including the Welcome Panels that guide users to verify their email and add an affiliation or a work—are now also in Portuguese and Spanish, as well as English. The language is shown based on the user browser language
We added a user survey, which will help us continue to get useful feedback from our community.
Lastly, we ran routine maintenance and made some bug fixes.
In the Member Portal, we made improvements to sending notifications to researchers through Affiliation Manager that include the addition of a schedule with sending notifications immediately when the process has been run, then 7 and 30 days after if the researcher has not granted permission. Additionally, members can select the language from the list of supported languages that they want the notifications to be sent in.
We also tweaked the inbox notification to make it clearer to researchers what benefits they will gain once they grant permission to their organization.
Lastly, we added missing translations and ran routine maintenance so everything will run smoothly.
3 February, 2023
We recently completed two releases for both the ORCID Registry and the Member Portal!
Highlights of the release include:
ORCID Registry
- Made some accessibility improvements, including translations
- Completed a number of small bug fixes
Member Portal
- Changed the way we display contacts that have multiple roles
- Added a formatting editor to the public display description
- Fixed the public display website URLs for those that are missing a protocol in the source data (set of rules for formatting and processing data)
- Completed a number of maintenance tasks
13 January, 2023
We’ve just completed our latest release, and we’re making great progress toward a fully accessible and inclusive registry!
Highlights of the release include:
- Fixed some input forms in the UI (names, bio) so they make more sense to assistive technology
- Switched to an accessible placeholder color for input boxes so that they’re easier to read
- Fixed the tab ordering so users can tab through every interactive element on the page and be able to understand the purpose of each item as it comes into focus
- Made the underlying HTML of records make semantic sense and fixed some issues with html IDs so that assistive technology can interpret them better