The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced that the Modern Language Association's prestigious MLA International Bibliography connects to ORCID as of June 17. The Bibliography joins other repositories in supporting discoverability through use of digital identifiers, and is the first primarily focused on the humanities to integrate ORCID.
The MLA International Bibliography provides access to over 2.5 million scholarly citations from print and electronic books, journals, and websites in the fields of language, literature, film, folklore, and pedagogy, making it the most comprehensive bibliography of its kind in the field.
Humanities researchers can now connect their works with their ORCID iD, directly in the Bibliography or from their ORCID account. This allows researchers to easily post their ORCID iD into their existing works, and pull their works information from the Bibliography into their ORCID account. It is a quick process that will enable ORCID registrants working in the humanities to distinguish themselves from others with similar names, connect their works across name variations or changes, and in doing so make their body of work more discoverable.
