Researcher identifiers can be added to your profile to enable Elements to auto-claim, or suggest publications that may be associated with you. A unique identifier such as ORCID will correctly claim your work, whilst only setting up name-based searching could result in Elements incorrectly suggesting work by authors with the same, or similar name.
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an international standard to help researchers to establish and maintain their scholarly identity. It aims to solve common issues such as
- Not getting credit for your research because your name is common or because you have published using a different version of your name.
- Struggling to find a central place to keep track of all your research outputs.
- Having to spend time entering the same information over and over in publisher and grant submission systems.
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher. To register for an ORCID iD, go to orcid.org and fill in the online registration form.
Your University Elements profile can be linked to your ORCiD record. This will enable Elements to retrieve publication IDs from your ORCiD profile and use these IDs to find those publications online and claim those records for you automatically and, in addition, details of records deposited into Elements will automatically update your ORCiD record.
To connect your ORCiD account to your Elements profile:
1. Select the option Menu> My Profile> Settings> ORCID Settings from the top left hand menu.
2. Select the option to Register or Connect your ORCID ID.
Note - select the option to permit Elements to read from and write publication data to your ORCID account.
