ORCID, which stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a free, unique persistent identifier (PID) that you can use throughout your research and publishing life cycles. ORCID solves name ambiguity and flexibility problems. It allows you to distinguish yourself from other researchers, and keeps your information regardless of changes in your name or affiliated organization. Furthermore, ORCID enables all of your research outputs to be automatically linked to each other. You can maintain all your key information and contributions in one place and don’t need to enter the same personal and publication data into different systems repeatedly.
It is useful to give your ORCID in funding applications, submitted manuscripts, and CVs. Some publishers and funders require your ORCID.
ORCID also plays an important role in creating your researcher profile in the Finnish national research information hub (research.fi). Only with an ORCID can you sign in and have your profile in research.fi created. With your consent, your information will be automatically imported to research.fi from your preferred sources – ORCID and/or Haris – from next spring.
Hanken is a member of the Finnish ORCID Consortium. It is strongly recommended that you connect your ORCID to your profile in Haris. Click “Edit profile” and then “Create or Connect your ORCID ID.” You can authorize the export of content (e.g., research outputs) from Haris to your ORCID account, thus keeping both profiles up to date. See the instructions in Haris LibGuide here.
If you do not have an ORCID, you will be directed from Haris to the ORCID site where you can generate an ID. Alternatively, you can apply for your ORCID at orcid.org, and then add it to Haris.
For questions, please contact haris@hanken.fi.
