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ORCID

Overview

ORCID is a unique, persistent person identifier that follows a researcher throughout their career and is institutionally agnostic. This ID (free to the researcher) connects the individual to their contributions (grants, publications, innovations) and their affiliations (institutions, professional orgs, etc.). Once authorized by an individual, member organizations (like Duke) can pull from and post to that researcher's ORCID profile, saving researchers time from manually maintaining multiple profiles with identical appointment, grant, and publication information.

Currently, the NIH, NSF, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), CDC, and DoE all require an ORCID with the adoption of Common Forms and the integration of biosketch tools like SciENcv with myNCBI and eRA Commons platforms. Essentially, ORCID profiles act as the conduit between your information already present in Duke systems and the SciENcv biosketch tool.

By obtaining an ORCID and affiliating it with Duke and Federal systems, researchers can more seamlessly link their contributions and appointments from various sources to quickly generate a biosketch in SciENcv for grant proposals.

Creating and Registering an ORCID with Duke

Create and register your ORCID account with Duke systems to populate your ORCID profile with your institutional Duke data.

  1. OIT Self-Service - This will create and log your ORCID in Duke’s identity management system ensuring it is readily available to authorized support offices across the university. If you do not yet have an ORCID, the system will prompt you to create one as part the registration process.

    1. If you're not sure whether you have an existing ORCID, you can find out if you do by searching for your name at https://orcid.org/:

  2. Duke Elements - This will allow your publications to be shared between your Elements profile and your ORCID profile.

 

Registering your ORCID with Federal Platforms

Once you have an ORCID and have registered it with Duke, register it with Federal systems to populate your ORCID profile with data from Federal systems and pass data from your ORCID profile to biosketch tools.

  1. myNCBI - This will pass info from your ORCID profile into your biosketch when you generate one via SciENcv.
  2. eRA Commons - Connect your ORCID via the “Personal Profile Module.” The ORCID is used within NIH and Grants.gov to relate publications to grants and to pass NIH validation requirements for fellowships and other NIH applications.