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New! Sign in to ORCID with your Dal Credentials

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You can now log in to ORCID using your NetID and password – one less password to remember! 

Why an ORCID? Why a researcher profile? 

ORCID provides a unique, personal identification number (like a DOI, but for you as an author) as well as the option to have a publicly available web profile highlighting your professional activities. An ORCID is useful for many reasons: 

  • Many funding agencies require it. 
  • Journals often require authors to submit their ORCIDs with their manuscripts – in fact, some journals accept ORCID login in as part of their submission process. 
  • ORCID numbers can be useful for ensuring all of your work is attributed to you, and not someone with a similar name. 
  • You can use ORCID to feed and display your research on your faculty website, lab, etc. 
  • Your public profile can be adjusted to reflect publications, grant awards, and other professional contributions that you want to highlight for prospective employers, funders, or collaborators. 

Sign in to ORCID with Your Dalhousie Credentials 

How to Register or Link an Existing Account to Your NetID 

Registration for an ORCID identifier is free and fast: 

1) Go to https://orcid.org/signin and you and select “Access through your institution.”  

2) Identify your institution as Dalhousie University and log in using your NetID and password.

3) If you are brand new to ORCID, select “Register now” and it will walk you through the short steps to create an account.

4) If you are not new to ORCID, enter your ORCID number and password where indicated to link to your existing Dalhousie NetID for easier logging in.

For more information on ORCID, please see the Scholarly Communications LibGuide. 

Please contact the Scholarly Communications team at scholary.communications@dal.ca if you have any questions about ORCID or the sign-on options. 

From UNIWeb to ORCID

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As of December 31, 2023, Dalhousie ended its subscription to UNIWeb. UNIWeb was implemented in 2019 as an information repository for researchers’ academic activity, intended to simplify the management of curriculum vitae (CVs including CCV), annual reports, promotion packages, and funding applications. It also allowed researchers to connect with colleagues and collaborators on topics of interest and to share information about their research.

Following a procurement and consultation process in 2022-23, Dalhousie decided to end its subscription to UNIWeb and encourage the use of other tools to maintain researcher profiles, such as ORCID iD, a permanent digital identifier system supported by Dalhousie through our membership of the ORCID Consortium in Canada.

“I am pleased to support Dal Libraries’ recommendation of the full use of ORCID as an alternative platform for our research community,” says Dr. Alice Aiken, Dalhousie’s vice president, research and innovation. “ORCID provides flexibility that allows scholars of all disciplines to choose how they share their activities and achievements, ensuring recognition for their work effectively and consistently over time, and it is recognized and used worldwide, including by Dalhousie scholars.”

More about ORCID and other tools that provide similar features:

1) ORCID iD – A unique identifier that ensures your research is correctly attributed to you, ORCID also provides a space to collect your research outputs, grant awards, different professional activities and links to social media and web profiles.    

ORCID makes it easy to add works to your profile and determine their level of visibility. ORCID’s auto-update feature allows you to link your ORCID profile to trusted third-party sources to have it updated automatically with information from those sources to save you time.   

If you don’t have an ORCID iD, registration is simple, and free.  Find out more about the benefits of ORCID, and how to register or link an existing ORCID account to your Dalhousie NetID in our LibGuide. 

We will also be holding an Introduction to ORCID webinar in January 2024, so stay tuned and watch our events calendar.   

2) Google Scholar – If you have published in an electronic journal, information about that article, including your name as author, is probably available in Google Scholar. Google Scholar groups works by the same author together, but these profiles may be inaccurate or incomplete as Google doesn’t read the bibliographic metadata the way databases do. Because this information is already available to searchers, authors are advised to claim their Google Scholar profiles to ensure their information is accurate.  

3) Scopus – Like Google Scholar, if you have published articles they are indexed in Scopus. The database creates a profile and list of your articles which may not be fully accurate. These profiles are not publicly available but they are widely consulted within academia. If you are thinking about your publicly available web profiles and haven’t already claimed and cleaned your Scopus profile, now is an ideal time. Information on how to update your Scopus profile so it is accurate and complete is available on the Author Profiles/IDs LibGuide. 

As always, the Scholarly Communications team is happy to assist with any questions at scholarly.communications@dal.ca. 

Get an Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID)

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by Ann Barrett

Looking for an easy way to keep your author profile up to date? Are your publications under multiple name variants making them hard to collect? Tired of having to enter the same information in multiple submission systems?

An ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) may be the solution for you.  ORCID is a unique number used to distinguish scholars around the world from one another. Over 1,000 student and faculty researchers affiliated with Dalhousie have already registered with ORCID.

ORCID provides researchers with a persistent identifier plus an easy mechanism for linking research outputs and activities to that identifier. ORCID is open, non-proprietary, transparent, community-based, and available free of charge.

Your ORCID record will belong to you throughout your scholarly career to distinguish you from other researchers and ensure consistent, reliable attribution of your work.

ORCID is also integrated into many systems used by publishers, funding agencies, institutions, and other research-related services, allowing you to input once, reuse often.

As members of the ORCID Consortium in Canada the Dalhousie Libraries encourage graduate students and faculty members register for a free ORCID.

To get started:

  1. Register for your unique ORCID identifier
  2. Add your professional information and link to your other identifiers (such as Scopus or ResearcherID)
  3. Set permissions and use your ORCID ID regularly when you submit publications or apply for grants to ensure you get credit for your work.

Want to know more? Check out the ORCID Knowledge Base , watch this short 4 minute video from ORCID, or contact your Dalhousie Libraries’ subject specialist.