ORCID is a non-profit organization that provides researchers with a unique 16-digit identifier. This ensures their work is reliably linked to them, regardless of changes in name, affiliation, or language. ORCID iDs help institutions, funders, and publishers accurately attribute work to the right person. ORCID iDs are free to sign up for and use. NOSM University is an ORCID member organization via ORCID Canada.
1. Go to https://orcid.org/register to set up your iD.
2. Add basic information to your ORCID record. We recommend:
Using the drop-down menu ensures your affiliations are correctly recognized by funder and publisher systems integrated with ORCID.
1. Use the Search & Link tool to link your research to your ORCID iD. We recommend three linking options, depending on your discipline and research output types:
2. If there are additional works you would like to add, you can use the Bibtex Import tool or manually add works to your record.
Use your ORCID iD across platforms or log in with ORCID whenever you see the ORCID symbol 
. This will help ensure your grants, publications, and other research outputs are attributed to you and automatically linked to your ORCID record!
We are currently running a pilot project to add official affiliations to researchers’ ORCID records using the ORCID Affiliation Manager tool.
ORCID allows you to manually add your employment, education, membership or other affiliations to your record. However, you can also approve a trusted third party, like a publisher or an institution, to write that information to your record for you.
NOSM University is using the Affiliation Manager tool to add verified employment and education affiliation information to our researchers' ORCID records. If you are included in our pilot program, we will send you a permission link. Once you click the link and grant us trusted-party rights, we will add the affiliation on your behalf. This ensures the affiliation is recorded in a standardized, authoritative form.
When you receive an email from the library with a subject line like Connect to NOSM University with ORCID, click the unique link provided. You will be directed to sign in (or register) at ORCID, then grant our institution permission to add information to your record.
After you grant permission, we will upload the affiliation and you’ll see it appear in your ORCID record (you retain full control over visibility settings).
If you already have manually added the same affiliation, you may leave it (you can review and adjust duplicates or visibility).
The email will come from an @nosm.ca email address. If it looks suspicious, double-check by contacting askthelibrary@nosm.ca before clicking the link.
Granting permission is voluntary. You control your ORCID record and you may withdraw trust at any time by logging into ORCID, visiting the Account settings → Trusted organizations section and removing NOSM University.
For any questions about this pilot, the permission process, or your ORCID record, please contact askthelibrary@nosm.ca.
You can book a 20-minute virtual appointment with a library specialist who will walk you through setting up and optimizing your ORCID iD. We will help you:
Schedule an appointment today by emailing askthelibrary@nosm.ca.
The library offers tailored in-person and virtual presentations on ORCID for groups of researchers upon request. These sessions provide valuable insights into creating and managing ORCID profiles, ensuring researchers can maximize their academic visibility and streamline their scholarly communications. Email askthelibrary@nosm.ca to arrange a presentation.
Yes. Anyone who participates in research, scholarship, or innovation can register an ORCID iD for themselves free of charge, and you can use the same iD throughout your whole career‚ even if your name changes or you move to a different organization, discipline, or country.
It is important that each researcher only has one ORCID iD. Please follow these directions to determine if you already have an ORCID iD.
ORCID will assist you in recovering your account details. Please follow these directions to recover your password.
This is one of the most common ways researchers lose access to their ORCID account. Please follow these steps to recover your account if you have lost access to your registered email address.
It is important that each researcher only has one ORCID iD. If you have more than one ORCID iD, please follow these steps to remove duplicate ORCID iDs.
Details about NOSM University are pulled into ORCID via our ROR identifier. ROR is a unique identifier for organizations, the same way ORCID is a unique identifier for individuals. On our ROR record, NOSM University's campus locations are listed in alphabetical order. A recent update to ROR has impacted the way ORCID pulls in ROR data, and means only the first listed location appears in the drop-down menu.
ORCID is aware of this issue and has flagged it for review.
Even if you are affiliated with the Thunder Bay campus, we always recommend you select NOSM University from the drop-down menu rather than manually adding your affiliation. Grant systems and publishing systems will not be able to reliably read your affiliation information if you input it manually.
ORCID is not just an online CV or profile system. Instead, ORCID connects with many other tools that fulfill these functions. The mission of ORCID is to focus on providing an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities.
ORCID allows and encourages you to link your ORCID iD to other identifiers. For example, you may link your iD to your Scopus Author ID, or ResearcherID, or ISNI.
Your ORCID iD is fully owned and controlled by you – ORCID’s Terms & Conditions mean that no-one else may assign an ORCID iD to you. No one but you can see information you mark as ‘visible only to me’ and no-one can update your ORCID record without your permission.
Google Scholar curates a list of publications it thinks you might have offered, and offers rudimentary metrics about those publications. ORCID functions as a switch box that connects a wide variety of research systems to each other. Having an ORCID iD will support the maintenance of any other researcher profiles you already have.
ResearchGate is a social networking platform, ORCID is not. ORCID functions as a switch box that connects a wide variety of research systems to each other. Having an ORCID iD will support the maintenance of any other researcher profiles you already have.
ResearcherID and Scopus Author ID are proprietary researcher profile systems owned and operated by Clarivate/Web of Science (ResearcherID) and Elsevier/Scopus (Scopus Author ID).
ORCID is a community-driven non-profit. ORCID functions as a switch box that connects a wide variety of research systems to each other. Having an ORCID iD will support the maintenance of any other researcher profiles you already have.
Both ResearcherID and Scopus Author ID can be linked to your ORCID iD to support the maintenance of your profiles.
You can follow these step to add works from Google Scholar to your ORCID record.
You can grant permission to one or more trusted individuals to update your ORCID record, acting as a delegate or proxy for managing your account. Other ORCID users can grant permission for you to update their records. A trusted individual does not need to be another researcher, but must have an ORCID iD. Please follow these steps to add a trusted delegate to your ORCID record.
