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 watch the video below or follow the instruction at the bottom of this box to create your free ORCID account.

1. Register for an ORCID account here
2. Once you have created an account, you can sign in to ORCID here
3. That's it! You now have an ORCID account that you can update with your scholarly research outputs

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:

1. Log into your eRA Commons account
2. Go to the Personal Profile page (if you're not there already). It should appear in the lower left.
3. In the Personal Profile box on the left-hand side of the page, click the link to "Create or Connect Your ORCID ID." This may prompt you to login using your ORCID username and password.
4. On the resulting page, click "Authorize Access" (this will give eRA Commons permission to update your ORCID account). This may prompt you to enter in your ORCID username and password.

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:

1. Sign into your NCBI account.
2. In the upper right-hand corner of the page, click your NCBI account username.
3. From the resulting dropdown, click "Account Settings."
4. Scroll down to "Linked accounts."
5. Click "Add Account."
6. Search for ORCID.
7. Click on the "ORCID" link.
8. You will be redirected to the ORCID login page, where you may be prompted to enter in your ORCID username and password.

You should now see your linked accounts under the Linked accounts section in your My NCBI account settings page

To link ORCID to SciENcv:

1. Follow the above steps to link ORCID to My NCBI, if you haven't done this already.
2. If you're not already logged in, login to your NCBI account.
3. Go to the SciENcv home page (note: if you can't find the SciENcv page, click your username in the upper right-hand corner, then "account settings." The SciENcv link should appear in the upper left).
4. Next to "My Profile," click "Edit"
5. Click "Select here to link your ORCID ID."
6. If prompted, sign into your ORCID account.
7. Click "Save."

• What is ORCID?
• How do I get an ORCID Account?
• How do I update and maintain my ORCID profile?
• How do I link ORCID to eRA Commons?
• How do I link ORCID to NCBI and 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)