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
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.)
Workflows and case studies
Discover other publishers and associations that are ORCID member organizations (sort by “Publisher” or “Association”.)
Workflows
For more detailed information about how ORCID can be used in various publishing workflows, explore the links below
Case Studies
See how other Publishers and Associations are benefiting from ORCID
Morressier: Supporting discoverability of conference content
PLOS: Enabling reviewers to get credit for all the important work they do
Springer Nature: Implementing ORCID iDs in book, proceedings and journal workflows
ScienceOpen: Increasing the transparency of researcher engagement on their site
*Brown, Josh, Jones, Phill, Meadows, Alice, & Murphy, Fiona. (2022). Incentives to invest in identifiers: A cost-benefit analysis of persistent identifiers in Australian research systems. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7100578