Why Get an ORCID?

• It is non-proprietary and stays with you throughout your career. You control the visibility of information associated with your ORCID record. 
• Helps disambiguate researchers with similar names and improves correct attribution of your work.
• Ensures your work is discoverable.
• Required by an increasing number of grant funders and publishers.
• May reduce admin burden when used to auto-populate manuscript submission or grant application forms.

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• ORCID for Researchers

  Visit this page to learn about the benefits for researchers, how to register and optimize your ORCID profile, and get help.

Getting Started

To begin, register for your ORCID iD using your Vassar email address.

Tip: Link your ORCID Profile to Vassar by selecting "Access through your institution" when you sign in. This way, you can login using your Vassar SSO.

ORCID Resources

• ORCiD Help Center- Multiple guides to building and updating your ORCiD record, troubleshooting, etc.
• Adding publications to ORCID
• Trusted organizations/individuals/account delegates and allowing access
• YouTube Video - Integrating with ORCID – From the National Libraries of Medicine
• Ways to use your ORCID iD
• Trusted organizations and allowing access
• Linking your ORCID ID to NIH’s eRA Commons
• Ways to use your ORCiD iD
• Linking your ORCiD ID to NIH’s eRA Commons
• Adding publications to ORCID

If you have author profiles in other systems, such as Scopus or Google Scholar, the citations can be imported into your ORCID record. Web of Science allows you to keep both profiles up to date via two-way synchronization (any works added to an ORCID profile are automatically added to Web of Science profiles and article records and vice versa when your ORCID iD is connected to your Web of Science account), while SCOPUS only allows one way import of data from Scopus into ORCID.

Do You Need to Register and Maintain ALL the Profiles?

No, you can choose to register and maintain the profiles in the resources that are most important in your field. For instance, if you're a historian, you would probably want to register for and maintain an author profile in Web of Science, containing the Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Indexes, in addition to establishing your ORCID, and set up two-way synchronization between your ORCID and WoS.

The advantage of claiming and maintaining your profile(s) in WoS and/or Scopus in addition to your ORCID record is that these platforms include citation tracking and integrate them into your profile. ORCID doesn't include any citation tracking.

Creating your ORCID Account and Affiliating Your Account with Vassar College

1. Create or sign-in to your ORCID profile with your Vassar email. There will be a question to confirm your affiliation with the college.
2. For new accounts: verify your email with the link sent to you by ORCID.
3. For older accounts: follow the prompts to update your email address and affiliation.

Connecting Your Scopus Profile with ORCID

1. If your “Scopus Author ID” is not connected under “Other IDs” then scroll to “Works” and select add. Click on “search & link” and select “Scopus – Elsevier” from the pop-up menu. Authorize access and complete the set-up wizard.
2. If you have multiple Scopus author profiles, you can request to merge them via an author search. From there, click on “merge author request” then complete the Author Feedback Wizard (your ticket may take up to seven days to complete).
3. And once all that is done, you’re connected! 

Syncing Your Web of Science Profile with ORCiD

1. Login to or Create your Web of Science Author Profile.
2. In your profile, navigate to the upper right of the screen and select “My Profile” next select “Profile Settings”.
3. From the pop-up menu select the option “ORCID Syncing”.
4. Click on “Connect Your ORCID ID”
5. Login to your profile and authorize institutional access.
6. Check “on” for all three options for ORCID to synchronize between ORCID and WoS.
7. Click “save changes” and you’ve done it!

Importing Google Scholar profile publications into ORCID

1. Log into your Google Scholar profile page.
2. Select works to be exported and select Export.
3. Select BibTeX and save the file.
4. Login to ORCID.
5. From the works section of your profile, click Add and choose Import BibTeX.