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ORCID and Other Researcher Identifiers: Develop your ORCID Profile

Need Help Setting Up ORCID?

ECU Libraries can help with setting up your ORCID profile.  Please reach out to the Scholarly Communication Department at scholarlycomm@ecu.edu for support.

Quick Tour of ORCID

Add Grant Funding to ORCID

ORCID has two options to add grant funding to your profile.  You may need to use both options to add previous grant funding.

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STEP 1: Log into ORCID: https://orcid.org/

STEP 2: Go to the Funding section of your profile.

 

STEP 3: Click on the Add button on the right side of Funding.  You will see two options: Search & link and Add manually. Select the option you want.

 

STEP 4: To Search & Link, you will get a pop-up listing the options for searching and linking your funding.  In this case, DimensionsWizard is the only available option. Select DimensionsWizard.

 

STEP 5: You can search by your Name or Grant Title

 

STEP 6: Check the correct funding opportunities, then select Next at the bottom of the results list. 

 

STEP 7: Review the grants and if correct, click the Submit to ORCID button.

 

STEP 6: To Add Manually, you will get a pop-up with questions like funding type, title, total funding amount, and more. Only some questions are required. Click Save changes to save it.

Add Publications to ORCID

There are a number of ways to add scholarly work to your ORCID profile.  This box will highlight the most popular ways to add items.  Please note that not every option listed will work for every work or for every discipline.  In most cases, you will need to use a variety of options to capture all work.

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STEP 1: Log into ORCID: https://orcid.org/

STEP 2: Go to the Works section of your profile.

 

STEP 3: Click on the Add button on the right side of Works. You will see a number of options. Select the option you want to use now.

 

STEP 4: To Search & Link, you will get a pop-up listing the options for searching and linking your works.  We recommend trying the CrossRef Metadata Search, MLA International Bibliography, and/or Scopus to ORCID for articles.  You can add datasets or software using the DataCite option.

 

STEP 5: For each option that you pick, follow the given steps.  This is an example of the the Scopus to ORCID option.

 

STEP 6: To use Add DOI, enter in the DOI or DOI URL.

STEP 7: To use Add PubMed ID, enter in the PubMed ID or PubMed ID URL.

 

STEP 8: To use Add Manually, enter as much details as possible and click the Save changes button.