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What is the benefit of an ORCID iD? [020]

By Office of Science Quality and Integrity

An ORCID iD helps to highlight and clarify Bureau research and authorship by USGS employees. The Publications Warehouse also uses ORCID iDs to update and link to externally published information products by USGS authors. [Read More]

An ORCID iD helps to highlight and clarify Bureau research and authorship by USGS employees. Additionally, an ORCID iD enables the USGS Publications Warehouse to ensure that 12 months after publication (the embargo period as described in SM 502.4, Section 6.D), all USGS-authored or funded journal publications are made freely available to the public, which complies with USGS Public Access Plan requirements. The Publications Warehouse also uses ORCID iDs to update and link to externally published information products by USGS authors. Lastly, the Bureau’s content management system uses ORCID iDs to properly link publications to the USGS author’s science center news and publications listings as well as to each author’s staff profile page.