•     When you register with ORCID, you are given the opportunity to create an ORCID profile.
•     The profile is a kind of digital business card and helps you to increase your visibility within the scientific community.
•     Use ORCID iD and ORCID profile to network with other scientists and institutions.
•     This fictitious example demonstrates what an ORCID profile can look like:

      https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5727-2427

• Research funding organisations increasingly expect scientists to use a unique identifier when submitting project proposals or reports.
• The ORCID iD is favoured by many funding institutions.
• By providing your ORCID iD, e.g. in your project proposal, you grant funding organisations easy access to all relevant information about your academic career, research and publications.

• ORCID facilitates your communication with publishers and journals.
• Use your ORCID iD when submitting publications so that the publisher or journal can uniquely identify you.
• More and more literature databases are including the ORCID iDs of authors in the bibliographic data.
• If you enter your ORCID iD in the publication process, you will therefore make your research results easier to find and ensure that no publication is overlooked when creating bibliometric indicators.

• The publication list in your ORCID profile reliably documents your scientific achievements. You can export the list and use it elsewhere.
• If you want to make it easier for yourself to maintain your publication list, you can use various ORCID functions.

• The most important function is Search & Link. This function allows you to link your ORCID profile with services such as Crossref, DataCite, PubMed, OpenAIRE, Web of Science or Scopus.

• This allows you to have your publication list updated automatically. Please note: If you link your ORCID profile to an external platform or organisation via Search & Link, you are appointing them as a Trusted Organization.

• Also with the help of DOIs of your publications, you can quickly and easily create and maintain a publication list in your ORCID profile.

• Include your ORCID iD in your email signature, on your website or on presentation slides to provide your colleagues with all the important information about your research and to network.