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ORCID is for…
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Researchers
Universities & Research Institutes
Publishers
Vendors & Service Providers
Government & Policy Makers
Funders & Facilities
ORCID is a free, unique, persistent identifier (PID) for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. Learn how ORCID can help you spend more time conducting your research and less time managing it. [Learn more.](https://info.orcid.org/researchers)
Uniquely Yours
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Distinguish yourself and claim credit for your work no matter how many people have your same (or similar) name. [Sign up here.](https://orcid.org/register)
Portable profile data
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Easily share data between your record and funding, publications, data repositories, and other research workflows.
ORCID allows universities and research institutions to stay up to date with their researchers’ outputs, reduce administrative burden and input errors, and helps their researchers, post-docs, employees, and students improve the discoverability of their work. [Learn more.](https://info.orcid.org/orcid-for-universities-and-research-institutions/)
Support research productivity
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Let your researchers spend more time on their research by reducing administrative burden
Track Careers
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Track researchers’ and graduates’ careers after they leave your institution as well as collaborators and peers at other institutions.
Publishers that integrate with ORCID can streamline workflows for authors, editors, and reviewers alike. ORCID improves the overall value of books and journals to the community, helping ensure that publishers have greater retention of authors and readers. [Learn more.](https://info.orcid.org/orcid-for-publishers/)
Know your authors
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Better know who your authors, co-authors, and reviewers are and improve the integrity of your submission, review, and reporting processes.
Improve discoverability
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Help your authors improve their visibility and improve the discoverability of their works and contributions by the scholarly community.
Vendors and service providers that connect their services to the ORCID Registry join our ecosystem of over 5,000 ORCID-integrated systems. Providing this service increases the value they provide to the scholarly community with authoritative, high-quality profile data. [Learn more.](https://info.orcid.org/vendors-and-service-providers/)
Increase ROI
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Increase the ROI of your platform and create better insights for the organizations you work with.
 Improve discoverability
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Increase the value you provide to the scholarly community with authoritative, high-quality profile data.
ORCID helps governments and policy makers elevate the integrity of their region’s research with trustworthy data, which serves to better align research and national PID and infrastructure strategies with global community standards. [Learn more.](https://info.orcid.org/orcid-for-government-and-policy-makers/)
Know your researchers
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Better know who your researchers are and improve the integrity of your assessment and reporting processes.
Align research strategy
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Better align your research, PID, or infrastructure strategy with global community standards
ORCID integrated systems reduce administrative burden for research funding agencies and major facilities that award access to resources. With less time and effort spent administering awards, they can better measure the impact of their awards. [Learn more](https://info.orcid.org/orcid-for-funders-and-facilities/).
Know your researchers
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Better know who your applicants and reviewers are and improve the integrity of your submission, review, and reporting processes
Track your impact
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Improve your ability to track the impact of your awards and your awardees, even beyond the period of performance.
FEATURED NEWS
ORCID’s Privacy Policy
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At ORCID, we recognize that upholding research integrity is a global challenge that demands community-driven solutions. In November 2024, Ellen Paterson, ORCID’s Data Protection Officer, hosted a webinar to discuss ORCID’s unwavering commitment to data privacy. In this session, Ellen covered recent updates to ORCID’s Privacy Policy, provided insights into her role has Data Protection Officer, and answered audience questions.
View highlights from **Research Integrity: ORCID’s Privacy Policy** below and [check out the full session, available On-Demand](https://vimeo.com/1035343268?share=copy#t=0).
### **More on ORCID’s commitment to Privacy**
#### **ORCID Celebrates Data Privacy Day 2025**
In late January, ORCID participated in Data Privacy Day to help raise awareness of privacy and how it affects us all. [Read the blog post](https://info.orcid.org/orcid-celebrates-data-privacy-day-2025/) to learn about some of our own recent developments in this area.
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#### **2024 updates to ORCID’s Privacy Policy**
_Keeping ORCID Trusted and Trustworthy._
Privacy is and has always been a fundamental concern for ORCID and is reflected in our founding [principles and values](https://info.orcid.org/what-is-orcid/), in our [Strategic Priorities](https://orcid.figshare.com/articles/online_resource/From_Vision_to_Value_ORCID_s_2022_2025_Strategic_Plan/16687207/1?file=30921316), as well as in our day to day operations. [Learn more about the updates made to our Privacy Policy](https://info.orcid.org/2024-privacy-policy-update/).
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#### **From our archives: Five easy ways to get the most out of ORCID**
[In this December 2021 blog post](https://info.orcid.org/well-populated-records-benefit-research-ecosystem/), we discuss the value of a well-populated ORCID record to the entire research ecosystem, and offer five easy tips for both researchers (to ensure they can get the most out of their records) and ORCID members (to help make ORCID more useful for their researchers and for their organization).
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