ORCID Community
ORCID is more than just an identifier, registry, and API. ORCID is an interconnected community working together to uphold research integrity and reduce administrative burden across the globe.
ORCID is community-built and governed by a Board of Directors representative of our membership with wide stakeholder representation. Our day to day operations are supported by a dedicated and knowledgeable professional staff.
An ORCID consortium is a group of not-for-profit or government organizations that work together to accelerate adoption of ORCID services and resources in national and regional contexts.
ORCID membership is open to any organization interested in supporting our work, adopting ORCID services and data within their systems, adding trusted information to their researchers’ or users’ ORCID records, or participating in our governance.
The ORCID Global Participation Program (GPP) is an initiative to improve equity of access to interconnected research infrastructure, and is made possible by our generous partners.
Actively engaging with our community helps us better understand and respond to the needs of our users. Here are our active community groups.
ORCID works with a variety of partners to promote the use, knowledge, and benefits of persistent identifiers with the ultimate goal of reducing administrative burden for researchers and helping organizations understand the impact of the research they facilitate or fund.
ORCID has been a community-built endeavor from our earliest days.
We owe our success to the stable foundation provided by the generous support of our founding sponsors and launch partners, and by the countless hours dedicated by volunteers on our business, outreach, and technical working groups who helped us clarify community needs and requirements, provide hands-on assistance, and enable us to prioritize, plan, and implement our membership model, technical features, and outreach tools.