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ORCID: Unique IDs for Brown Researchers

The Library is coordinating an effort to introduce ORCID identifiers to the campus. ORCID is an open, non-profit initiative founded by academic institutions, professional bodies, funding agencies, and publishers to resolve authorship confusion in scholarly work. The ORCID repository of unique scholar identification numbers aims to reliably identify and link scholars in all disciplines with their work, analogous to the way ISBN and DOI identify books and articles.

Brown is an institutional member of ORCID, which allows the University to create ORCID records on behalf of faculty and to integrate ORCID identifiers into the Brown Identity Management System, Researchers@Brown profiles, grant application processes, and other systems that facilitate identification of faculty and their works.

Please go to https://library.brown.edu/orcid to obtain an ORCID identifier OR, if you already have an ORCID, to link it to your Brown identity.

Please contact researchers@brown.edu if you have questions or feedback.

New ORCID Integrations

  •  MIT Libraries have created an ORCID integration that allows their faculty to link an existing ORCID iD to their MIT profile or create a new ORCID record, which then populates the ORCID record with information about their employment at MIT
  • University of Pittsburgh is generating ORCID records for their researchers and adding their University of Pittsburgh affiliation

 

ORCID and the Humanities

ORCID recently announced  integration with the MLA International Bibliography.

We are delighted to announce that, as of June 17, the Modern Language Association’s prestigious MLA International Bibliography connects to ORCID.  The Bibliography joins other repositories in supporting discoverability through use of digital identifiers, and is the first primarily focused on the humanities to integrate ORCID.

What is ORCID?

ORCID is an open, non-profit initiative founded by academic institutions, professional bodies, funding agencies, and publishers to resolve authorship confusion in scholarly work.  The ORCID repository of unique scholar identification numbers will reliably identify and link scholars in all disciplines with their work, analogous to the way ISBN and DOI identify books and articles.

Brown is a member of ORCID which allows the University, among other things, to create ORCID records on behalf of faculty, students, and affiliated individuals; integrate authenticated ORCID identifiers into grant application processes; ingest ORCID data to maintain internal systems such as institutional repositories; and link ORCID identifiers to other IDs and registry systems.  ORCID identifiers will facilitate the gathering of publication, grant, and other data for use in Reseachers@Brown profiles.  The library, with long experience in authority control, is coordinating this effort.