In this workshop, attendees will sign up for an Orcid iD and populate their Orcid accounts.
Orcid is a global non-profit organization founded in 2011 that provides Orcid iD’s to researchers. An Open Researcher and Contributor ID, or Orcid iD for short, “provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grand submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that you work is recognized” (https://orcid.org/).
Orcid iD’s are the future of scholarly publication and many granting agencies and journal submission processes now allow (or require) researchers to include their iD in the submission process. For example, it is likely that the tri-council awards in Canada will make Orcid iD’s mandatory in the future.