ORCID, an international, interdisciplinary, open and not-for-profit organisation, has announced that organisations across the scholarly community are preparing to integrate with the ORCID Registry. Participating in the ORCID Launch Partners Program are research institutions, publishers, research funders, data repositories and third party providers. ORCID is launching its public Registry in October, at which time individuals may register for an ORCID identifier.
Participants in the initiative include the American Physical Society, Aries Systems, Avedas, Boston University School of Medicine, the California Institute of Technology, CrossRef, Elsevier, Faculty of 1000, figshare, Hindawi, JMIR Publications, KNODE, Nature Publishing Group, SafetyLit, Symplectic, Thomson Reuters, Total-Impact, and the Wellcome Trust. Programme participants and other organisations interested in integrating ORCID identifiers are encouraged to register for its integration webinar series at http://dev.orcid.org/getting-started.
At launch, the registry will allow researchers and scholars to register for an ORCID identifier, create ORCID records, and manage their privacy settings. It will contain ORCID records created by universities on behalf of their researchers and scholars. It will also allow researchers and scholars to link their ORCID record external identifiers, including Scopus and ResearcherID.
The registry will facilitate synchronisation of ORCID identifier record data with external systems including Scopus. It will bi-directionally link to a number of author profile and manuscript submission systems, aiding researchers and scholars in creating ORCID records. Systems that will have integrated ORCID Identifiers at the time of launch include the American Physical Society, Aries Systems, Hindawi, Nature Publishing Group, and Scholar One Manuscripts.
The registry will also allow researchers and scholars to search and upload publication metadata from CrossRef and is expected to have the ability to link to grant application systems.
