ORCID for Publishers

By integrating your systems with ORCID as a publisher, you can streamline workflows for authors, editors, and reviewers alike. ORCID improves the overall value of your books and journals to the community, helping ensure greater retention of your authors and readers.

Strengthen research integrity and provide a consistent user experience with ORCID

By linking your authors, reviewers, and editors with their ORCID records, you’ll be able to:

save everyone time and reduce keying errors,
better know who your authors, co-authors, and reviewers are and improve the integrity of your submission, review, and reporting processes,
help your authors improve their visibility and improve the discoverability of their works and contributions by the scholarly community,
meet funder and governmental compliance requirements, and
solve metadata and name discrepancies between different datasets.

Joining the ORCID community is easier than you think! Anyone can use our public services, however to maximize the benefits of ORCID, we recommend you join ORCID as an organizational member, which offers access to additional functionality, personal assistance of our integration team, and of course helps support our 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 write to the ORCID registry
Get help from our dedicated Support Team
Give credit to your authors and reviewers by updating their ORCID records

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 authors, reviewers, and editors to access their trusted (non-public) data
Connect up to five systems to read from and/or write to the ORCID registry
Connect more systems for an additional fee
Get priority help from our dedicated Support Team
Give credit to your authors and reviewers by updating their ORCID records
Synchronize author and reviewer ORCID records with your systems dynamically

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Compare Access Levels

	Public Registry Access	Basic ORCID Membership	Premium ORCID Membership

Unique Identification
Reduce the frustration of users managing multiple passwords by allowing them to sign in with their ORCID.
Seamlessly link authors and reviewers between different systems to ensure you have the right person in each step of your workflow.
Know your authors, reviewers, and editors better by collecting authenticated iDs and reviewing ORCID Trust Markers, helping to detect potential misrepresentation and/or misconduct.

Manuscript Submission
Allow authors and reviewers to pre-populate forms, reducing input errors and easing the burden of submission and review
Improve the quality of the data you collect during submission about researchers’ affiliations and funding, helping OA policy compliance and reporting.

Editing and Review
Make it easier for editors to assign appropriate reviewers based on their previous contributions and activities
Equip your editors with data that can help recognize possible conflicts of interests when selecting reviewers.

Publication
Engender higher levels of trust in your authors by displaying their ORCID iDs next to their names in their publications.
Ensure that your authors receive credit for their work by automatically adding their published works to their ORCID records by using the Crossref auto update integration.

Recognition and Discovery
Add publication data to author ORCID records and improve the likelihood that your authors will be discovered and their work reused and/or cited by other researchers, funders, indexers, and research organizations.
Incentivize reviewers by publicly crediting their reviewer service to their ORCID records.
Add editorial activity, including editorial board memberships, to ORCID records to acknowledge the time and effort editors contribute, as well as granting the prestige of being associated with your publications.

Transparency and Trust
Reduce the burden of institutional and national reporting requirements for your authors and reviewers by ensuring that their publications and editor and reviewer service are properly credited in their ORCID records.
Improve public trust in research by adding publication, review, and editorial data to ORCID’s open and accessible network of interconnected metadata.
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 involved in scholarly publishing, you are in a unique position to add trustworthy information about your authors, co-authors, and peer reviewers to their ORCID records. By adding validated data to their records, you improve their trustworthiness and actively contribute to the global community trust model espoused by ORCID.

Regardless of whether your organization is an ORCID member, there are several ways to integrate your systems with ORCID in order to realize the benefits available to you. Many popular publishing platforms have ORCID integration built-in as part of our Certified Service Provider program — all you have to do is turn the functionality on!

Alternatively, if you prefer to integrate your own custom systems, our extensive documentation makes it easy to get started, and for members, our dedicated member support technical specialists provide 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.)