The Patrick Power Library is pleased to participate in ORCID, a global system to accurately identify researchers online and create an authoritative record of scholarly work. We join over one thousand universities, major scholarly publishers, and journal indexes worldwide in ORCID membership.
What is ORCID?
An ORCID iD is a unique digital identifier that links your research and scholarship to you, creating a single, authoritative list of all your contributions.
We encourage all Saint Mary’s University researchers to create an ORCID profile and keep it up to date. Here are some tips to get the most benefits from ORCID:
- Select Saint Mary’s University as your institution
- Set your “Works” and “Activities” to be viewable by “Everyone”
- Set your profile to automatically update with new publications and activities
For more information about setting up and customizing your ORCID settings, visit our ORCID for Faculty guide.
The Patrick Power Library is pleased to offer Saint Mary’s University researchers assistance with setting up and using ORCID. For assistance, please contact Peter Webster, Information Technology Services Librarian, at Peter.Webster@smu.ca
Don’t have an ORCID profile yet? Here are our top benefits to getting and using one.
- Reduce administrative burden
Once your ORCID profile is set up, publishers and major indexes can automatically add your works and activities (including pre-prints, research grants, and peer-review activity) to your ORCID profile and add new works as you publish. Works can be automatically added to ORCID from sources including:
- MLA Arts and Literature database
- Arxiv scientific preprint database
- Scopus scholarly journals database
- Web of Science/Web of Knowledge scholarly journal database
- American Chemical Society’s SciFinder database
- Elsevier, Wiley, Springer/Nature, Taylor & Francis, Sage, and hundreds of other scholarly publishers
ORCID information can be easily exported to update Canadian funding agencies’ Common CV (CCV) form, and for other scholarly reporting requirements. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada became members of ORCID-Canada in July 2024. Work to automate information interchange between the grant funding agencies’ CCV database and ORCID is underway.
- ORCID is often required
Many scholarly publishers and other organizations now request, or require, an ORCID iD. For instance, ScholarOne article submission software requires authors to list an ORCID iD. This is a popular submission software used by many scholarly publishers.
- Increase discoverability of your research
Setting your profile visibility to public and adding information to your ORCID iD allows the body of your work to be discoverable by others, including individual researchers, organizations, funders and employers.
ORCID can be synced to major literature searching tools, such as Google Scholar, to increase the discoverability of your work and ensure proper attribution. ORCID can also be linked to social media and professional networking sites, such as LinkedIn, X, Research Gate, and even your SMU faculty profile.
- Distinguish yourself from other researchers
Your unique ORCID iD distinguishes you from other researchers, particularly individuals with the same (or similar) name. Your ORCID iD stays with you even if you change your name, use a different variation of your name, or change organizational affiliation.
- Free, customizable and easy to use
ORCID is a non-profit, membership-based organization funded by member fees. ORCID iD services are provided to researchers for free. Setting up an ORCID profile is easy and only takes a few minutes. Once set up, your ORCID profile is owned and managed by you, and provides customizable privacy and visibility settings.
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