Scholarly Communication

• Keeps your work separate from other researchers with the same or similar names
• Ensure that your scholarship is correctly attributed
• Required by some publishers and funding organizations so it is advantageous to already have one
• Can seamlessly add any citation with a DOI to the ORCID profile via a CrossRef and DataCite integration
• Captures and maintains research from past, current, and future places of employment.
• Can be linked to unique IDs in other systems (Author ID in Scopus) and ResearcherID in Web of Science, to add new citations to the ORCID account automatically.
• Will increase their integration with publisher and funding agency submission systems, which means that once the item is published or the grant awarded, that information is updated in the appropriate ORCID account(s).

As opposed to a unique ID applied to an author/researcher, a DOI is a unique identifier applied to a scholarly output such as a journal article. DOIs are persistent, standardized strings of numbers and letters that help to retrieve a work. Some publishers will attach DOIs to your published work for you, while others do not. Information about an object may change over time, such as where it can be found on the web, but a DOI will never change, making it a useful tool for finding an item.