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ORCID: Enhancing your Research Profile

ORCID allows scholars and students to record and share their professional activities with a global audience.

Add your works

There are different ways to add records of your work into your ORCID profile.

  • Select the +Add button on the top of the section titled Works.
  • From the drop down menu, select the method you’d like to use and follow the steps outlined here.

The heading of the Works section in an ORCID profile, with the +Add button highlighted in red.

 

A screenshot of the dropdown menu containing the options for adding works to your ORCID profile.

Search & link

Search & link has a list of databases which, when authorized, will automatically populate your works into your ORCID profile.

  • Select Search & link from the dropdown menu (under +Add) to access search & link databases.
  • Choose the database that you believe would best suit your search.
  • Click Authorize access to allow that database to add works to your record. You can remove permissions anytime by going to your account’s Trusted parties page and clicking Revoke access next to the name of the organization.

The authorization page for MLA International Biography (as an example database) is shown, with the Authorize access button highlighted in red.

  • You will be directed to the importing works page of the database itself. Follow the steps as outlined for that tool to bring your works from that source into your ORCID profile.

Consult this guide for further assistance.

Other methods of adding publications

  • Select Add DOI from the dropdown menu.
  • Paste the DOI into the search bar and select Retrieve work details from DOI.
    • This will direct you to a form with information that ORCID pulled in about the title. Review the form to ensure all auto-populated information is correct and to fill in any missing necessary information.
  • Select add this work to your ORCID record.
     

Consult this guide for further assistance.

  • Select Add PubMed ID from the dropdown menu.
  • Paste the PubMed ID or URL into the search bar and select Retrieve work details from PubMed.
    • This will direct you to a form with information that ORCID pulled in about the work. Review the form to ensure all auto-populated information is correct and to fill in any missing necessary information.
  • Select add this work to your ORCID record.
     

Consult this guide for further assistance.

Importing works from a BibTeX file

Using the BibTeX import tool, you can import your scholarly works from systems that do not have a connection to ORCID.

Download a BibTeX citation for your work from sources such as UVic Library Search, ResearchGate, Google Scholar.

  • In ORCID start from the Works section and select Add BibTeX from the dropdown menu.

  • Click Choose BibteX file to import and select the file to import.

  • The publications from the file will appear. Select the works you would like to import, then click Import works to your record.

  • The imported publications will appear under Works in your record with your name listed as the source.
  • Some information imported into your record with the BibTeX file may be incorrect/incomplete.
    • You may edit the citation's information by selecting the pencil icon and correcting the information on the form that opens. 

Consult this guide for further assistance.

To add a work manually, start from the Works header, click +Add, then Add manually, and a box will appear enabling you to complete for a manual work citation. See our works metadata article for a description of all the fields.

We recommend that you add in the Work identifiers section (e.g. ISSN, DOI, ISBN). Select Save changes.

Consult this guide for further assistance.

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