ORCID’s vision is a world where all who participate in research, scholarship, and innovation are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions across disciplines, borders, and time.
An ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) identifier is a Persistent Identifier specifically designed for researchers, maintained by ORCID, a nonprofit membership organization.
By including your ORCID iD in your publications, your work can be collected and shown to others, and most importantly credited to you and not another researcher who happens to have your same name.
ORCID iDs are created and managed by researchers themselves. This means you control how much information about yourself you want to share. There is no cost to register. For more information, check out the ORCID registry homepage.
To create your free ORCID iD, get started with the registration process.
NYU Libraries is a member of ORCID, which confers benefits beyond the free offerings available to individual researchers like ORCID iD registration. One such service is the Member API. Member API users can access trusted, limited data about their organization’s researchers, write data to ORCID records, and sync ORCID records with their own system.
NYU Libraries manages access to the ORCID Member API for NYU users. Under our current membership, NYU is allotted up to five sets of API credentials. To request credentials, please review the NYU ORCID Membership API External Entity Terms of Use (Google Doc) and contact Data Services (data.services@nyu.edu).