Building your ORCID

We suggest that all should get an ORCID. See the benefits of getting an ORCID here Lenker til eit ekstern område.. Building your ORCID:

  1. Register: Go to the https://orcid.org/ Lenker til eit ekstern område. and follow the registration instructions. Already have an ORCID, but forgotten it? Locked out of an old institutional email? Do not create a second ORCID - recover your ORCID instead Lenker til eit ekstern område..

  2. Add works (publications, datasets, ++) to your profile: You can do this in multiple ways. The easiest is via the "search and link" function, where publications++ are imported from databases, such as Crossref, Scopus, PMC or Datacite. We recommend starting with Scopus.
    You can also add works using an identifier (doi/PubMed ID), using a BibTeX file, or manually. Manual additions work for publication types such as dissertations, conferences, artistic works, software and much more. See guidance for adding works here Lenker til eit ekstern område., or the video below which demonstrates "search and link". Tip: If you allow a database/system to be a "trusted organization", some will automatically suggest updates to your profile when they find a new publication of yours.

  1. Edit identifying data: Important fields to fill out include names you are known by, country and current employment. We also recommend that you provide a back-up secondary email address to avoid getting locked out. See guidance on setting up your basic information here Lenker til eit ekstern område..

  2. Edit visibility settings: You can vary these section by section. We recommend that you set your "Works" and "Employment" sections to be visible to everyone, in order to get the benefits of having a clear identity and publication record. However, you can still keep certain individual items within these sections private if you wish. See visibility settings guidance here Lenker til eit ekstern område..

  3. Connect your ORCID to your Web of Science or Scopus IDs, if you have them. You can't add these to the "Other IDs" box directly; you must connect via "search and link", or you can add your ORCID to the profile you want to link to.  See guidance on connecting other identifiers here Lenker til eit ekstern område.. Linking to ORCID to Web of Science allows your profiles to keep each other updated automatically with works and peer review activity - See instructions for Web of Science-ORCID linking here Lenker til eit ekstern område..

  4. Add links to other profiles under "Websites & Social links". You can do this easily by clicking on the pen symbol next to the heading (appears when logged in). Tip: Consider adding links to your UiB profile page, academic social media, or profile platforms without IDs (such as Google Scholar profiles). You can also connect your ORCID to GitHub: on ORCID add a link to your profile under this section; in GitHub add your ORCID in your profile settings.

An image showing the Websites and social links section of an ORCID profile

  1. Add any other information you wish to record, for example invited positions, awards, memberships, funding or education. See guidance here for adding peer-reviewing activity to your profile Lenker til eit ekstern område.. Adding peer-review is easiest if you set up a Web of Science account to collect reviews, and sync activity between Web of Science and ORCID. Remember that you can set these sections to private if you wish to keep them as a personal record.

... and last but not least, provide your ORCID to your publisher when publishing! You can also provide you ORCID in some data archives when depositing data, funders when applying, and with some journals when peer-reviewing.

See also ORCIDs own FAQs here Lenker til eit ekstern område., and the video below, which provides a quick tour of some of these features (see more tutorial videos from ORCID here Lenker til eit ekstern område.). We also have a powerpoint about ORCID available on Zenodo Lenker til eit ekstern område..