Make use of your ORCID iD

Make use of your ORCID iD

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) gives you a unique identifier to ensure your research — like publications and grants — is correctly attributed to you.

ORCID is an independent, non-profit organization offering services to link research activities and organizations to unique researcher identifiers. ORCID is integrated into many systems used by publishers, funders, institutions, and other research-related services. It’s free and open source, perfect for graduate students building a research career. It helps emerging and established faculty members control their bibliographical records. Concordia University strongly supports using ORCID.

Three ways of finding out more information about ORCID:

• Consult the Library's ORCID page to learn more about Concordia and ORCID.
• Consult ORCID’s Welcome to ORCID! Page
• Watch the Why ORCID? video

Connect your ORCID iD with Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository

Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository would like to collect your ORCID iD for use in the repository:

• Authenticate: When you click the “Connect to ORCID” button, we will ask you to share your ORCID iD using an authenticated process: either by registering for an ORCID iD or, if you already have one, to sign in to your ORCID account. We do this to ensure that you are correctly identified and securely connecting your ORCID iD. Learn more in What’s so special about signing in.
• Display: To acknowledge that you have used your ORCID iD and that it has been authenticated, we display the ORCID iD icon alongside your name in our database.
• Connect: By sharing your ORCID iD with Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository, and giving us permission to read and update your ORCID record, you enable us to help you keep your record up-to-date with trusted information. This includes updating your employment activities and export publications data to orcid.org, seeing the points below. This information is authoritative because it comes from your institution, making your ORCID record more trustworthy.
• Collect: Filling in the same information over and over again is frustrating. That’s why we let you choose to use information from your ORCID record to import your publications data into Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository.

Updating Employment/Education Activities

When you give Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository permission to update your ORCID activities, the repository will update your employment activity accordingly. If you are a student user, your education activity will be updated instead.

Import and export to ORCID

Please use the Manage Deposits tab to import or export activity details to ORCID. You will need to grant the appropriate permissions to Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository. You can grant the permissions while connecting or at any time afterwards. The options to import and export from ORCID will appear on the Manage Deposits page only after you have connected your ORCID (using the Connect to ORCID menu option).

A note about permissions

You are able to change the permissions that you grant to Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository using the Manage my ORCID permissions menu option. This menu option will become available once you connect to ORCID. Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository will request permission while connecting to ORCID to do the following:

• Connect your ORCID iD to Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository, linking your ORCID iD with your Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository record
• Add details of your publications to your ORCID record and update the details of publications which have already been added to your ORCID record by Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository. You will also be asked separately if you would like Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository to update your ORCID record automatically when you publish new items or update existing publications.
• Retrieve details from your ORCID profile that are restricted to your trusted parties only.

You may revoke or re-instate these permissions at any time after first making the connection with ORCID, either using the ORCID web interface at ORCID.org, or through Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository using the Manage ORCID permissions tab. If you would like to import activities (including publications) from ORCID into Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository you need to give permission to Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository to retrieve your limited access items. If you wish to export items from Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository to ORCID, you need to enable the permission to create or update ORCID. You are also able to disconnect from ORCID from the Manage ORCID Permissions page.