title: ORCID Author Identifiers: A Primer for Librarians.
abstract: The ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) registry helps disambiguate authors and streamline research workflows by assigning unique 16-digit author identifiers that enable automatic linkages between researchers and their scholarly activities. This article describes how ORCID works, the benefits of using ORCID, and how librarians can promote ORCID at their institutions by raising awareness of ORCID, helping researchers create and populate ORCID profiles, and integrating ORCID identifiers into institutional repositories and other university research information systems.
authors.affiliation: a Shiffman Medical Library , Wayne State University , Detroit , Michigan , USA.
authors.forename: Katherine G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Akers
authors.affiliation: b Purdy/Kresge Library , Wayne State University , Detroit , Michigan , USA.
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sarkozy
authors.affiliation: a Shiffman Medical Library , Wayne State University , Detroit , Michigan , USA.
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: a Shiffman Medical Library , Wayne State University , Detroit , Michigan , USA.
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Slyman
mesh_terms: D001319:Authorship / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D016245:Librarians; D007993:Libraries, Medical / Q000592:standards*; D007998:Library Science / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards*
keywords: Author identifiers; ORCID; research support; scholarly communication