ORCID Advocacy Toolkit/Understanding ORCID/ORCID’s benefits for institutions

Streamlining Research Tracking Keep better track of collaborators and peers at other institutions, help your researchers, post-docs, employees, and students improve their visibility, and improve the discoverability of their works and contributions, by the scholarly community, improve your ability to track the impact of your funding, even beyond the period of performance. Key Benefits: Enhanced Visibility: increase both efficiency and quality in critical processes like assessment exercises Improved Attribution: Ensure proper credit for institutional research outputs Simplified Reporting: Institutional Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) serve as important databases or data sources for external and internal reporting, which should ideally be connected with interfaces to the operational systems for automated loading routines Compliance and Mandates Many funding bodies and publishers now require ORCID IDs: NIH Requirements: ORCID IDs are mandatory for certain grant applications Publisher Requirements: Many journals require ORCID for manuscript submission Institutional Mandates: Growing number of universities require ORCID for faculty Operational Efficiency When you integrate your systems with ORCID, you can more easily stay up to date with the research that comes from your scholars – while making their lives easier. System Integration Benefits: Automated Updates: Synchronize student, post-doc, researcher, and staff ORCID records with your systems dynamically Affiliation Management: Ensure proper affiliation with your users by updating their ORCID records with your organizational data Credit Attribution: Give credit to your users by updating their records with research outputs, IDs, and other relevant data stored in your systems Membership Benefits To maximize the benefits of ORCID, we recommend you join ORCID as an organizational member, which offers access to additional functionality, dedicated technical support, and of course, the opportunity to actively participate in scholarly infrastructure by supporting ORCID's work. Member Advantages: Dedicated technical support Advanced API access Consortium discounts for eligible organizations Participation in ORCID governance and development