Open Researcher and Contributor IDs (ORCID IDs) are unique, persistent digital identifiers that help to distinguish researchers from one another and reliably link them to their scholarly contributions. Researchers can connect their ORCID ID with a variety of professional information, including affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, datasets, patents, multimedia projects, etc. through updating and managing their ORCID record (i.e. ORCID profile).
Important Note: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will soon require Senior/Key Personnel to link their eRA Commons profiles to ORCID, and enter their ORCID ID into SciENcv in the Persistent Identifier (PID) section of the Common Forms for grant applications starting in May 25, 2025. For additional information, see the NIH's notice.
You can find instructions for how to update and maintain your ORCID account via this guide, or via the videos below.
Linking your eRA Commons account to ORCID is required by some grant funding organizations (such as the NIH).
To link your eRA Commons account to ORCID:
When you go back to eRA Commons, you should now see your ORCID ID populate the Personal Profile box.
Linking ORCID to NCBI and SciENcv allows you to populate My Bibliography and SciENcv biosketches with information from ORCID.
To link ORCID to My NCBI:
You should now see your linked accounts under the Linked accounts section in your My NCBI account settings page
To link ORCID to SciENcv:
The Ebling Library provides education and consultation services for creating and managing researcher profiles.
For additional information, contact Paije Wilson (paije.wilson@wisc.edu) or Trisha Adamus (adamus@wisc.edu)