ORCID

Employee or researcher of University of Luxembourg? Access your profile to add your ORCID in just a few clicks. If you do not have an ORCID yet, it can be created and linked to MyORBilu at the same time.

What is ORCID?

The Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID) was created in 2009 to address the problems of homonymity among researchers in scientific communication.  It is a unique form of identification for authors of scientific publications.

It is a free, permanent identification assigned to you only. It is a global id system to enable researchers to create a research profile, that can be viewed by others including funders, publishers, researchers etc.  As an open service, it is often interoperable with other systems.

You can  edit your profile and add your existing ORCID or create a new.

Why use ORCID?

Your ORCID:

• Distinguishes you from your potential namesakes.
• Links you reliably and easily to your search results and affiliations.
• Gives you better visibility and recognition.
• Saves you time through interoperability: it has the same philosophy as ORBilu: 'Enter once, re-use often'.
• Allows you to connect your profiles and search results across a wide range of publishers, institutions and funding agencies.
• Gives you control over your data and lets you choose who can access and use it at any time.

In practice, use your ORCID to:

• Submit a manuscript to a publisher.
• Apply for a grant.
• Write a Data Management Plan.
• Submit your publications in Open Access.
• Make your research data freely accessible.

Create and use your ORCID in three steps

• Step 1 : Create your ORCID

If you don’t already have one: create your ORCID account now in less than one minute.

• Step 2 : Connect your ORCID to MyORBilu

With only a few clicks, link MyORBilu to ORCID and choose the authorisations you wish to assign. By giving ORBilu permission to link with your ORCID, you will allow us to:

• Register and display your login
• Link ORBilu information with ORCID information
• Ensure that any references you deposit on ORBilu will link to your ORCID id and your ORCID profile making you more visible. 
• Automatically push your affiliation into ORCID.

Always begin by depositing a reference in ORBilu, as this ensures your content is visible across the web to various harvesters and preferably open access. After a day or two, login to ORCID, select ‘add new’. ORCID should discover your reference either from ORBilu or another source (e.g. BASE). You can then add the reference to your ORCID account automatically. You can also export content from ORCID into ORBilu in BibTeX format.

You can also link your ORCID with publisher manuscript submission systems and funding application systems that use it.

You stay in control!

At any given time, you and you alone decide who can access your data and to what extent.

• Step 3 : Enhance your profile

Your ORCID profile will automatically be expanded with the information collected through the authorisations you give to trusted organisations. But first, it is important to make your ORCID profile unique and easily recognisable.

You can therefore complete your profile manually and add the following:

• A short biography.
• Your affiliations.
• Your qualifications.
• Your publications.

You can add this information by encoding it yourself but also, whenever possible, by using import tools.