Using and connecting your ORCID plug

Why create an ORCID ID?
The objective of ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID, USA - http://orcid.org/) is to resolve author name confusion in scientific publications. ORCID is an international non-profit organisation that maintains a central repository (ORCID Registry) of researcher identifiers (ORCID IDs) associated with information about the activities of registered researchers.
ORCID assigns a unique identifier to a researcher (ORCID ID). This ID is linked to two types of information
- publications and other products authored by that researcher - articles, datasets, responses to calls for proposals, grants ;
- the information systems that manage these products - journals, databases, data warehouses, funding agencies.
The ORCID ID links together the products of the researcher's activity managed by different information systems: for example, an article submitted to a journal, then published, then indexed by different bibliographic databases, or a response to a call for projects submitted to a funding agency and resulting in publications of which the researcher is the author.
The ORCID ID saves the researcher from re-entering information about him or herself (such as publication references) in profiles created in the databases or internet platforms they use, by allowing them to export and import this information between the database or platform and the ORCID repository, if the two systems are interconnected.
To use or display your ORCID ID in information systems, or to import information from those systems into your ORCID record, you must first authorize ORCID to make your ID public or to interact with those information systems.
The ORCID ID is a unique alphanumeric code that facilitates the search for information on a researcher's publications and scientific activities.