Universities will want to understand and assess the benefits of ORCID adoption so that they can make decisions about:

(i) promoting ORCID through advocacy and support resources for researchers, encouraging them to sign up – pilot projects indicate that such advocacy is most successful when it comes from senior levels within the institution;

(ii) providing a sign-up/sign-in page from within an institution system so that an ORCID can be securely and privately linked to an individual’s institutional ID and affiliation can be authoritatively asserted by the institution;

(iii) implementing ORCID within vendor systems (like CRIS) or investing in development for ORCID integration in local systems that do not come with off the shelf support;

(iv) becoming members of ORCID so that they can benefit from member level access, for example through the Jisc consortium offer.

The Jisc ORCID consortium membership offers institutions access to ORCID membership at a reduced cost. Institutions also have access to additional technical and user support provided by Jisc. Several other countries have also recognised the advantages of the consortium approach including: Australia, Finland and New Zealand. Many regional consortia have also formed – more than half of ORCID membership is now part of national or regional consortia.

Jisc consortium membership gives your institution local technical support and greatly reduced prices for access to ORCID premium membership, the highest level of ORCID membership.

More on Jisc banding;       more on ORCID membership.

Other benefits of consortium membership include:

• access to dedicated, ORCID trained, technical support staff from the UK Consortium;
• onboarding webinars , online resources, technical documentation and training materials;
• a growing national and international ORCID community to develop best practice, knowledge and skills in research management;
• ORCID integration across multiple enterprise systems;
• ORCID in vendor-hosted systems as well as separate internal systems;
• notifications from ORCID when information is updated in an ORCID record connected to the organisation.

1. It should help institutions with:
   1. reporting
   2. tracking, identifying and archiving publications and datasets
   3. identifying outputs and collaborations
   4. integrating with internal and external systems
   5. improving data quality
   6. following research careers of staff and alumni
   7. integrating new staff, visiting staff and staff with multiple current affiliations
   8. correctly attributing the contribution of all research participants and supporters
   9. asserting and checking affiliation;
2. It acts like a hub that will connect with institutional, funder, publisher, and other researcher identifier systems;
3. It will provide more automated disambiguation of authors in a number of different contexts, including when aggregating information about an institution’s research outputs from external sources, using a CRIS system or when collecting information to support reporting, internal applications for promotion or strategic planning;
4. More information is available at: https://memborcid.org/research-organizations
   here you can discover how other research organisations:
   1. make the most of their ORCID membership
   2. integrate ORCID into different workflows
   3. communicate with research contributors to gain their support.

More details: A slide presentation from ORCID on the benefits to research organisations.

ORCID’s vision is to “support trusted data exchange, improve data quality, and reduce paperwork and repetitive data entry “ see: https://orcid.org/content/collect-connect
ORCID emphasise that not only should institutions collect ORCID membership by encouraging staff and postgraduates to join but they should connect their own processes by integrating with ORCID so that the institution can authoritatively assert which staff and students are affiliated and can begin to see the progress and career paths of their past postgraduates.

5. It connects with contributions, data and affiliations, allowing those connections to flow into profiling, CV and other systems;
6. It reduces and prevents mistaken identity;
7. It has the potential to save considerable time – “enter once re-use often”;
8. It improves recognition and discoverability for the person and their contributions;
9. It provides a lifelong, portable digital name;
10. The record is owned and controlled by the researcher, who can manage what information is connected and how it is shared;
11. It will enable compliance with organisations that require ORCID iDs;
12. It is free to register and to use for the researcher;
13. It can be part of making your research more accessible to other researchers, research users and research commissioners;

More details: A slide presentation from ORCID on the benefits to researchers

As adoption increases and organisations integrate ORCID into their systems, ORCID will improve efficiency for researchers, reducing the time they need to spend on repetitive data entry for tasks such as manuscript submissions, grant applications, creation and maintenance of CVs and profiles and reporting to funders. Organisations investing in integration will allow their researchers to reap the benefits and ORCID will facilitate automatically moving research information between internal and external systems making the systems integration of new staff, for example, swifter, more accurate and more complete.

• Royal Society requires ORCID (from January 2016) – article
• Wellcome Trust’s mandate for ORCID– article
• HESA includes ORCIDs in student and staff records – ORCID blog
• RCUK encourage researchers to use their ORCID iD in Je-S – article
• Major publishers have committed to requiring ORCID iDs in the publishing process – article
• European Commission report recommends ORCID adoption: The European research system and Open Science Cloud should adopt ORCID as its preferred system of unique identifiers, and an ORCID iD should be mandatory for all applicants and participants in FP9 – blog

• http://orcid.org/about/membership
• http://orcid.org/content/membership-comparison

• University of Oxford report summarises the current state of ORCID adoption in the UK
• Jisc and ARMA report on UKHEI pilot projects
• THOR report on integrating ORCID into Data Records and database systems.

• Thinking about ORCID systems integration in your institution?
• Advocacy resources
• Forthcoming and recent events with supporting materials
• Next steps for new members