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ORCID

Establish your scholarly identity with an ORCID iD

What is ORCID?

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an international non-profit organization developed by the research community. Your ORCID iD is a 16-character digital identifier that distinguishes you from other researchers with the same or similar names and allows you to link your research to your iD, ensuring that your work is correctly attributed to you. Many publishers, funders, universities, research organizations, and professional associations use ORCID to identify researchers and their work.

ORCID Workshops at Portland State

The ORCID US Community is offering this online workshop:
 
ORCID 101: The ORCID iD and Record
Feb. 18, 2026 at 3pm Eastern/2pm Central/1pm Mountain/12pm Pacific
 
Are you applying for a grant? Submitting a manuscript for publication? Want to make your professional activities and contributions visible? With research organizations increasingly requiring and using ORCID, knowing how to get and use your free ORCID iD and ORCID record will help you save time and get recognition for your work and contributions.
 
In the webinar, they will cover:
  • What is ORCID and the Benefits of ORCID for Users
  • How to populate your ORCID record
  • How to keep your ORCID record up-to-date
The session recording will be sent to all who register. 

Additional ORCID Support

Why ORCID?

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an open, non-profit, internationally used persistent identifier that supports research integrity and disambiguation of scholars. 

Your ORCID iD can help you:

  • establish a long term, trustworthy scholarly record
  • make research outputs more visible and accessible to the wider scholarly community and the public
  • integrate with numerous systems used by publishers, funders, institutions, and other research services, allowing researchers to populate forms, biosketches, and reports with data from their ORCID record, eliminating repetitive data entry
  • utilize expanded work types inclusive of those in the humanities and fine arts

Locally, ORCID adoption at Portland State is a priority for RGS in the Roadmap to 2030, and is promoted by the University Library as a low-cost replacement for the previous faculty profile platform, SelectedWorks.

ORCID Adoption Campaign

The University Library and Research and Graduate Studies are collaboratively working on ORCID awareness and adoption at Portland State. This work includes offering workshops, development of a centralized ORCID webpage and other outreach, analysis of ORCID usage data for faculty and research track graduate students, and integrating ORCID iDs in PDXScholar. 

Team Members

  • Project Director: Kimberly Pendell, Professor, Social Work & Social Sciences Librarian
  • Project Co-Director: Dawn Boatman, Assistant Vice President for Research Administration
  • Project Collaborator: Julia Stone, Open Scholarship Librarian
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