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Orcid Author Identifiers: A Primer For Librarians, Katherine G. Akers, Alexandra Sarkozy, Wendy Wu, Alison Slyman
Orcid Author Identifiers: A Primer For Librarians, Katherine G. Akers, Alexandra Sarkozy, Wendy Wu, Alison Slyman
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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.