ORCID for Government and Policy Makers
When you actively adopt ORCID in your organization, you elevate the transparency and integrity of your region’s research strategy and policy with trustworthy data.
Enhance your country’s research strategy or PID policy with trusted, community-contributed data about research affiliations, outputs, and funding.
As a government agency or policy maker that oversees research activities in your country or region, when you link your systems to your researchers’ ORCID records, you will be able to:
- better align your research, PID, or infrastructure strategy with global community standards,
- help your researchers improve the discoverability and interoperability of their contributions to the global scholarly community,
- allow users to automatically fill out forms saving them time while resolving name and metadata discrepancies,
- better know who your researchers are and improve the integrity of your assessment and reporting processes,
- follow your researchers’ careers and keep better track of their collaborators and peers,
- improve your ability to track the long-term impact of your funding,
- help your research institutions meet policy and compliance requirements, and
- through participation in our governance process, help ensure that ORCID supports your strategic research and development goals.
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 premium functionality, dedicated integration support, joining a community network of data contributors that strengthen research integrity throughout the research ecosystem, and of course, supporting ORCID’s work. Or, if you are a not-for-profit organization, explore joining an ORCID consortium to access additional discounted membership fees and accelerate integration of ORCID services and resources.
Public Registry Access
- Allow your scholars to sign in with their ORCID
- Know your users 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 users better by reviewing their academic profiles
- Request permission from your users 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 users by updating their records with research outputs, IDs, and other relevant data stored in your systems.
- Demonstrate your commitment to improvements in research integrity, and influence the direction of ORCID through participation in our governance process
Premium ORCID Membership
- Allow your users to sign in with their ORCID
- Know your users better by reviewing their academic profiles
- Request permission from your users 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 technical support from ORCID
- Ensure proper affiliation with your users by updating their ORCID records with your organizational data stored in your system
- Give credit to your users by updating their records with research outputs, IDs, and other relevant data stored in your systems
- Synchronize researcher’s ORCID records with your systems to ensure they are automatically kept up to date
- Demonstrate your commitment to improvements in research integrity, and influence the direction of ORCID through participation in our governance process
Consortium ORCID Membership
- Allow your users to sign in with their ORCID
- Know your users better by reviewing their academic profiles
- Request permission from your users 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 technical support from your Consortia’s Lead Organization
- Ensure proper affiliation with your users by updating their ORCID records with your organizational data stored in your system
- Give credit to your users by updating their records with research outputs, IDs, and other relevant data stored in your systems
- Demonstrate your commitment to improvements in research integrity, and influence the direction of ORCID through participation in our governance process
- Synchronize researcher’s ORCID records with your systems to ensure they are automatically kept up to date
- Consortia only : Enjoy discounted premium membership fees
- Consortia only : Access consortia-only tools to add affiliation data to your researchers’ ORCID records quickly, without the need for a developer or specialized IT knowledge
Compare Access Levels
| Unique Identification | Public Registry Access | Basic ORCID Membership | Premium ORCID Membership | Consortia Member ship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reduce the frustration of users managing multiple passwords by allowing them to sign in with their ORCID. |  | | | |
| Seamlessly link researchers between different systems to ensure you have the right person in each step of your workflow. | | | | |
| Know your users better by collecting authenticated iDs and reviewing ORCID Trust Markers, helping to detect potential misrepresentation and/or misconduct. | | | | |
| Manage Research Information Flow | Public Registry Access | Basic ORCID Membership | Premium ORCID Membership | Consortia Member ship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allow users to pre-populate forms, reducing input errors and easing the burden of submission and review | | | | |
| Improve the quality of the data you collect, including your users’ affiliations, publications, and funding, helping OA policy compliance and reporting. | | | | |
| Discovery and Collaboration | Public Registry Access | Basic ORCID Membership | Premium ORCID Membership | Consortia Member ship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| By adding data to your researchers’ ORCID records, you will increase the discoverability, recognition, and reproducibility of their research outputs. |  | | | |
| By adding data to your researchers’ ORCID records, you will improve the likelihood that it will be reused and/or cited by other researchers, funders, indexers, and research organizations. | | | | |
| Help accelerate knowledge discovery, international collaboration, and increase the integrity, transparency and reproducibility of research by encouraging FAIR Data Principles and Open Science practices when you add standardized, openly-accessible data to your researchers’ records. | | | | |
| Transparent, Trustworthy Reporting and Decision Making | Public Registry Access | Basic ORCID Membership | Premium ORCID Membership | Consortia Member ship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reduce the burden of institutional and national reporting requirements by adding your organization’s validated data about professional affiliations, research outputs, and funding. | | | | |
| Demonstrate your commitment to upholding public trust in research by adding awardee and reviewer data to ORCID’s open and accessible network of interconnected metadata | | | | |
| Hone your research vision, refine policies and clarify expectations for your country’s research community with insights gained from standardized, open, community-contributed data. | | | | |
Are you actively using ORCID in your systems and processes?
As an organization responsible for setting your country’s or region’s research strategy and policy, you need impact reporting supported by trustworthy data. You are also in a unique position to elevate the visibility of your country’s researchers and their contributions by adding and updating this validated information for your researchers or staff.
There are several ways to connect your systems with ORCID in order to fully realize the benefits available to you as an ORCID Member. Many popular scholarly service providers, including Research Information Systems, Manuscript Submission Systems, Grant/Facility Submission Systems, and Repository Systems, have an ORCID integration built in, and are certified by us to adhere to best practices recognized throughout the research ecosystem — all you have to do is turn the functionality on!
Browse ORCID Certified Service Providers.
Alternatively, if you prefer to develop 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
Workflows
For more detailed information about how ORCID can be used in various workflows used by policy makers and government organizations, explore the links below
Case Studies
See how other policy makers and government agencies are benefiting from ORCID
NACOSTI: An Open Science Pioneer in Kenya
Affiliation Manager Around the World: Vinnytsia National Agrarian University—Vinnytsia, Ukraine
A Use Case for Trust Markers in ORCID Records: Streamlining the Credentialing Process
ORCID Poised to Support Research Institutions in New Era of Public Access and Research Security