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ORCID: Managing Your Identity

ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher.

What is ORCiD?

ORCiD provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher. This means that it will be less likely that your name will be confused with another researcher with a similar name, ensuring that you get the credit you deserve for your work. Unlike your work email or identification number, your ORCiD ID follows you when you move. You can include your ORCiD identifier on your publications, grants and even your web page. You can also link your ORCiD ID to other services such as LinkedIn and Researcher ID.

How Do I Get Started?

If you already have an ORCiD ID you can link it to your PSU log-in using the steps below. If you don't have an ORCiD ID you can follow the steps below as well, but there will be one extra step.

1. Visit accounts.psu.edu/orcid. 

2. Click the "Continue" button to get started.

Penn State Account Management home page for connecting your ORCID and Penn State accounts displaying the "Continue" button to get started.

3. Login to PSU WebAccess if you are not already (Two Factor Authentication if required)

PSU WebAccess login screen
 

4. Click the "Register Or Connect You ORCID ID" button.
 
Display of the "Register Or Connect Your ORCID ID" button

 

5. You will need to sign into ORCiD using your ORCiD credentials. This ensures that it is actually you making the link. 

ORCiD Login screen requesting email or 16-digit ORCID iD and password
 

6. If you don't have an ORCiD account you may create one now. During this step, you will be asked to provide your name and email, create a password, select visibility settings for your profile, agree to terms of use, and authorize Penn State access. For the Penn State access, you should click  the "Authorize access" button (see below).
To authorize Penn State access to add/update research activities (works, affiliations, etc), add/update other information about you (country, keywords, etc.), and read your information with visibility set to Trusted Organizations select Authorize access button.
 

7. You should see a success message.
Penn State Account Management Page verifying that your ORCID account is now linked.
 

8. You can now login to ORCiD using your Penn State credentials by choosing the "Institutional Account" button.
ORCiD login screen where you can select to login with institutional account
 

 

Now what?

You can add records directly to your profile from the PSU Researcher Metadata Database. This database maintains an aggregation of publications, presentations, performances, advising, news articles, and bios for Penn State faculty from several major sources including Pure and Activity Insight. 

The following steps to link your ORCID profile with the PSU Researcher Metadata Database cannot be accomplished via proxy and need to be completed by the PSU and ORCID account holder. However, once the link is set up, a proxy can be established in the PSU Researcher Metadata Database to push data to ORCiD. See below for instructions. 

   Please note that the below steps assume you’ve already got an ORCID and connected it to your Penn State Account via   <http://orcid.identity.psu.edu/>.

 

  1. Log in to the PSU Researcher Metadata Database https://metadata.libraries.psu.edu/profile/

 

  1. Connect the PSU Researcher Metadata Database to your ORCID Account

By clicking the connect your ORCID iD button

 

  1. Authenticate to ORCID

 

  1. Authorize PSU Researcher Metadata Database to write records to ORCID

By clicking the authorize button

 

  1. Add Organizations to ORCID (optional)

Click the publications tab to see your publications listing and then click the add to my ORCID record

 

  1. Add Publications listed to ORCID

By clicking the add to my ORCID Record

 

  1. View additions on the ORCID.org website

Review added records

 

To add a proxy to push data from the PSU Researcher Metadata Database, follow the documentation about proxies in RMD. 

To add any content that is not in the PSU Researcher Metadata Database,  go to the ORCiD website (https://orcid.org/) and fill in the content manually through your ORCiD profile.

In many cases, when you write a grant, or submit a manuscript for publication, linking to your ORCiD ID is built into the workflow.  For example, you can now populate your SciENcv biosketch is through an ORCID ID. You can also include it on your website and other creative achievements as you like. It is your ID!