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ORCID at Brandeis University

This guide is intended for faculty and student researchers. It contains information about the Open Researcher and Contributor iD (ORCiD) registry, including how to get, use, and connect your ORCiD.

ORCiD for Health Sciences & Policy

More and more journals and grants are requiring an ORCiD. If you want to learn more or create one, check out the Getting Started with ORCiD and Using ORCiD pages. If you're interested in how ORCID can be used in the Health Sciences, read on!

How can you use your ORCID account?

  1. Connect your ORCiD account to PubMed. ORCiD's Search & Link wizards allow you to import data about publications from databases such as PubMed. Once you start using your ORCiD with your publications PubMed will automatically update your ORCiD account. Take a look at our Using ORCiD page for more info.
  2. Set up your NCBI account to sign in with ORCiD. Take a look below to find out more.
  3. Import ORCiD citations into SciENcv. Take a look below to find out more.  
  

Check out this NCBI video on PubMed Tools and ORCiD's for Authors (23 minutes).

 Adapted from ORCID for Health Sciences, by Christina Miskey, CC-BY-NC-4.0

Sign into NCBI with ORCiD

Sign in to NCBI with ORCiD

First, sign into your NCBI account. Then select your username in the upper right-hand corner to access the account menu and select Account Settings.

NCBI account menu with Account Settings link highlighted

In the Linked accounts section of this page select the "Add account" link.

NCBI linked accounts section with Add account link highlighted

Search for ORCiD among the available 3rd-party partners.

Link a new 3rd-party account pop-up in NCBI with search for orcid and ORCiD link highlighted

Select the ORCiD link in the search results, log into your ORCiD account (if you are not already logged in), and click the Authorize button to give NCBI permission to Read your ORCID record.

Pop-up granting NCBI permission to access your ORCiD record

Then on the NCBI login page you can select ORCiD to sign in with your ORCiD credentials.

NCBI sign-in options: Log in again with Brandeis University, eRA Commons, Google Account, ORCiD, Login.gov, Microsoft, NIH Account, NCBI Account

Using ORCiD with SciENcv

Using ORCID with SciENcv

On your SciENcv homepage. Select edit next to My Profile, add your first and last name, and select "Select here to link your ORCiD ID". 

SciENcv edit my profile with select here to link your ORCID ID link highlighted

Select the + New Document to create a new biosketch.

SciENcv homepage with new document button highlighted

Give your Biosketch a name, choose the format you need, then choose ORCiD as the External source.

SciENcv create a new document window with use an external source menu open and ORCID highlighted

After you have created the biosketch you can import citations from ORCiD. For example, in the Personal Statement section click on "Select citations", choose the ORCID tab, select the citations you want to be added and then click "Save citations".

Personal statement section of the NCBI biosketch with My bibliography and ORCID tabs for adding citations

For more information please see the My NCBI Help page about SciENcv.