Once you have completed your order with Jisc Collections, the person completing the order will receive a request to identify who will be your main contact and your technical contact. You will be sent a link to fill in an online form to grant permission to ORCID for use of your name and logos on the ORCID website. Completing the online form is an important part of your membership agreement.   Details of what is involved in the contact roles and what is appropriate can be found in the FAQ section of the support website. If the main contact is not yet known, the person completing the order should add as much of the form information as they can, and pass on the link to the form and the new member information (this page) to the main contact as soon as a main contact becomes available.

The information displayed for your institution on the ORCID website (see members list) and key contacts are managed  by liaising with Jisc as UK consortium lead. Jisc will share information with ORCID as appropriate.  When contacts change please get in touch with the UK orcid consortium team using help@jisc.ac.uk as it is the responsibility of the member organisation to keep contact information up to date. Jisc will liaise with ORCID to set you up with an account on ORCID’s member portal, which will then allow you to manage your contacts and member description directly, once it is set up.

Support is available through the Jisc UK ORCID consortium support team as a first port of call, with assistance from ORCID and the wider community.

A key part of ORCID membership is participation in the ORCID community, which is supported by the Jisc support service.  There are various immediate opportunities:

Below is a selection of useful resources to help you understand how to use ORCID and what your integration options are. This will help to inform your decisions about how to integrate ORCID into your systems and workflows. You need to consider both implementation and promotional aspects in the roll-out of ORCID at your institution.

We will be delighted to arrange your 1:1 consultation with the Jisc support team to discuss any aspects of your strategy; this can involve as many members of your team and different institutional services as needed.

Here are some links to get your technical support started on an integration. The next step tells you all about how to get credentials to get systems connected to ORCID

When you are ready to start with an integration of your systems with ORCID, you will need to follow the set-up instructions to obtain credentials for connecting with the ORCID API.  This requires a registration process on the ORCID website. Help for completing the form is also available or check out our FAQ There are various steps to consider:

A key aspect of using ORCID is how you communicate with researchers to help them understand what ORCID is for and how it is being used in your systems, as well as giving practical advice and how to. The following resources will help you think of different strategies and provide examples of communication.

As a member of ORCID you should follow best practice when communicating with researchers about ORCID to provide a consistent message.  You are also bound by the terms of the license agreement.  As an ORCID member, you are entitled to display the ORCID member logo, which can be emailed to you by ORCID.

Researchers control the visibility of all the data that is part of their ORCID record. The privacy settings determine which information can be retrieved from and uploaded to the ORCID registry (including results of searching through the API); applications and systems can request the researcher to grant limited access permissions. See Visibility settings for users

When you have completed your initial ORCID integration, it is good opportunity to promote your ORCID membership within your institution and communicate the benefits of ORCID.  When you officially launch your integration, please advise ORCID who can assist with publicity if required. You will be able to monitor the progress and level of use of your integration through ORCID’s member portal.  Access to member portal will be set up by ORCID as part of membership and you will receive an activation email. More about member portal.