Privacy is a concern for many. ORCID lets you select how open you'd like your information to be.
Under Account Settings you can set your own level of privacy:
Everyone
- can be viewed by anyone who comes to the ORCID.org website or uses the ORCID public API. Data marked as public will also be included in the public data file posted annually by ORCID.
Trusted Party
- can be seen by any person/ group that you have authorised to connect to your ORCID Record. These connections require that you approve all trusted parties before you see this information; you will be asked if you would like to make a specific connection before they have this capability.
Private
- can only be seen by you. It is also used by ORCID algorithms to help distinguish your identity from another person who may have a similar name, be it in a similar field, or may be confused with you for other reasons. This information is not shared with others.
See more about privacy.
Setting up your ORCID account is simple - it takes about a minute!
1) Fill out as much personal information as you can. Make sure you include any variations of your name that you have published under. Adding your country, websites, and keywords will make your profile more efficent.
2) Add all of your e-mails-- past and current. This will help eliminate duplicate accounts that your employer or library might have set up for you.
3) Add your education. Make sure that you enter the most broad affiliations first. For example, start with the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Afterwards you will be able to add your departmental affiliation.
4) Add your publications. You can do this two different ways. You can either enter them manually or you can use an importing wizard to pull information from another account that you have. Once you go to the Import Works page, you will find a list of organizations/ programs that ORCID is compatible with. Going through the importing wizard can also be helpful because it links the two accounts which sometimes results in giving your other account (ResearcherID, Scopus ID, etc.) your ORCID number.
- CrossRef has information for all journal articles that have a DOI
- DataCite has information for all datasets that have a DOI
5) Add your funding. You can optionally add information for any grant or contract that you have been awarded.
6) Keep your account up to date. Your account won't function to its full capacity if you aren't adding new publications. You can simplify this process by including your ORCID iD on publication and grant submissions.
7) Include your ORCID iD (the full URL) on your website, CV, and business cards so that others can easily find your information.
