The University Libraries is leading a university-wide campaign urging faculty, graduate students and researchers to obtain an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID®) and, when they have one, link it to their Andrew ID.
Yes, there's an app for that: orcid.library.cmu.edu.
Increasingly, reputations and careers are built on enabling others to quickly and confidently identify you and your body of work. Funders, publishers, scholarly societies and associations, fellow researchers and potential collaborators need to be able to identify you and your work for many reasons, from benchmarking and recordkeeping, to discovery and access.
“An ORCID ID uniquely identifies you throughout your career,” said Scholarly Communications Librarian Denise Troll Covey. “It distinguishes you from other researchers with the same or similar names, and identifies you with all the name variations by which you may be known.”
Covey said it also allows researchers to bring together their works and data associated with other institutions and identity systems. “You can maintain all your important contributions in one place, including citations and links to publications, datasets and software,” she said.
At CMU, campus systems will strategically harvest ORCID IDs from the identity management system. For example, the Sponsored Programs and Research Compliance System will use the IDs to facilitate communication with research sponsors.
See ORCID @ CMU for complete info and details.