ORCID for Funders and Facilities
By integrating your systems with ORCID, you reduce the burden of administering awards and can better measure the impact of your awards.
As a research funding agency, or a major facility that awards access to resources such as specialized instruments and equipment, linking your awards with your awardees’ and reviewers’ ORCID records will enable you to:
- save everyone time* and reduce input errors when filling out forms,
- better know who your applicants and reviewers are and improve the integrity of your submission, review, and reporting processes,
- help your awardees improve their visibility, and improve the discoverability of their works and contributions, by the scholarly community,
- ensure the research you fund reaches its full potential via ORCID’s FAIR-enabled data and infrastructure,
- improve your ability to track the impact of your awards and your awardees, even beyond the period of performance,
- meet governmental compliance requirements, and
- resolve metadata and name discrepancies.
Our free-of-charge public services are openly available for anyone to use, but to maximize the benefits of ORCID we recommend you join as an organizational member, which offers access to additional functionality, the dedicated support of our integration team, joining a community network of data contributors that strengthen research integrity throughout the research ecosystem, and of course, supporting ORCID’s work.
Public Registry Access
- Allow your users to sign in with their ORCID
- Know your authors, reviewers, and editors better by reviewing their academic profiles
- Connect your system to read public data from the ORCID registry
- Join our public API Users Group for help and support
Basic ORCID Membership
- Allow your users to sign in with their ORCID
- Know your authors, reviewers, and editors better by reviewing their academic profiles
- Request permission from your authors, reviewers, and editors to access their trusted (non-public) data
- Connect one system to read from and/or add to the ORCID registry
- Get help from our dedicated Support Team
- Give credit to your applicants and reviewers by updating their ORCID records with grant award, research resources and peer review data.
Premium ORCID Membership
- Allow your users to sign in with their ORCID
- Know your authors, reviewers, and editors better by reviewing their academic profiles
- Request permission from your applicants and reviewers to access their trusted (non-public) data
- Connect up to five systems to read from and/or add to the ORCID registry
- Connect more systems for an additional fee
- Get priority help from our dedicated Support Team
- Give credit to your applicants and reviewers by updating their ORCID records with grant award, research resources and peer review data.
- Synchronize applicants’ and reviewers’ ORCID records with your systems dynamically
Compare Access Levels
| Unique Identification | Public Registry Access | Basic ORCID Membership | Premium ORCID Membership |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reduce the frustration of users managing multiple passwords by allowing them to sign in with ORCID. |  | | |
| Seamlessly link applicants and reviewers between different systems to ensure you have the right person in each step of your workflow. | | | |
| Know your applicants and reviewers better by collecting authenticated iDs and reviewing ORCID Trust Markers, helping to detect potential misrepresentation and/or misconduct. | | | |
| Application | Public Registry Access | Basic ORCID Membership | Premium ORCID Membership |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allow applicants to pre-populate forms with data from their ORCID records, reducing input errors and easing the burden of submission and review | | | |
| Improve the quality of the data you collect during submission about applicants’ professional affiliations, scholarly outputs, and funding, helping policy compliance and reporting. | | | |
| Review | Public Registry Access | Basic ORCID Membership | Premium ORCID Membership |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make it easier for your staff to assign appropriate reviewers based on their previous contributions and activities. | | | |
| Equip your staff with data that can help recognize possible conflicts of interests when selecting reviewers. | | | |
| Award | Public Registry Access | Basic ORCID Membership | Premium ORCID Membership |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ensure the right applicant is awarded. | | | |
| Add award data to the awardee’s ORCID record |  | | |
| Include Grant DOIs in the award data written to the ORCID record | | | |
| Recognition and Discovery | Public Registry Access | Basic ORCID Membership | Premium ORCID Membership |
|---|---|---|---|
| Increase discoverability and recognition of the research you fund or facilitate, even beyond the period of performance.. | | | |
| By adding award data to awardees’ ORCID records, you will improve the likelihood that it will be reused and/or cited by other researchers, funders, indexers, and research organizations. | | | |
| Recognize the work of your reviewers by adding their reviewer service to their ORCID records. | | | |
| Transparency and Trust | Public Registry Access | Basic ORCID Membership | Premium ORCID Membership |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reduce the burden of institutional and national reporting requirements for your awardees and reviewers by ensuring that their award data and reviewer service are properly credited in their ORCID records.. | | | |
| Improve public trust in research by adding validated awardee and reviewer data to ORCID records, records, contributing to the global community trust model espoused by ORCID. | | | |
| Keep local data sources up to date by synchronizing with the ORCID Registry | | | |
Are you actively using ORCID in your systems and processes?
As an ORCID member organization involved in awarding grants or time with your research facility, you are in a unique position to add validated information about these awards to your awardees’ ORCID records. By doing this you improve their trustworthiness, reduce researchers’ burden as they can reuse that data in other workflows, and actively contribute to the community trust model espoused by ORCID, helping to uphold research integrity across the global research community.
To start with your integration, we encourage you to browse our list of ORCID Certified Service Providers (CSPs) that enable you to add and update this information simply by turning the functionality on! There is a growing number of popular scholarly service providers, including Grant/Facility Application Management Systems, have an ORCID integration built in, and are certified by us to adhere to best practices recognized throughout the research ecosystem.
Browse ORCID Certified Service Providers.
Alternatively, if you prefer to integrate your own custom systems, our documentation makes it easy to get started; and for members, we provide dedicated personalized support and advice. (There are a lot of benefits to being an ORCID member, and we encourage you to visit our Membership Benefits and Fees page to learn more.)
Workflows and case studies
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Case Studies
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