The Research Support portfolio Group (which consists of Peter L, Anton, Cuiying, Janette, Kerry and Dave L) have created an ORCID tab on the Scholarly Publications subject guide which explains:

• what ORCID identifiers are
• why they benefit researchers
• how researchers can obtain an ORCID ID

We hope you will find this useful as background information. Creating an ORCID identifier is really easy so it’s unlikely you’ll get many requests from researchers on ORCID via ASKLive, email or at information desks. Still now you’ll know what they are.

We anticipate that ORCID identifiers will be used in Profiler, Peoplesoft and the UC Research Repository and that they will be made available to all UC researchers later in 2015. In the meantime researchers can easily and freely obtain one from the ORCID website.

Peter Lund