ORCID, which stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is an international non-profit organization that aims to provide a unique identifier for researchers worldwide. system, but also serves as an infrastructure to reduce the effort of researchers and the research community as a whole.
The information registered by ORCID members is clearly identified by the institution from which it was registered, thus ensuring the reliability of the information. The information registered by ORCID members will be clearly identified as to its origin.
Users can obtain a unique identifier (16-digit ID) = ORCID iD by registering an account on the ORCID site. In addition, a user's individual My Page is created on the site, where the user can register and view his or her profile as a researcher, research achievements such as papers and conference presentations, and information on research grants obtained, free of charge.
In addition, by registering and consolidating a researcher's affiliation and achievement information on the ORCID record by linking it to ORCID iD, the linkage with external services using ORCID iD becomes more convenient. This will provide many benefits not only to researchers, but also to all stakeholders in academic research, including the research institutions and academic societies to which the researchers belong, research funding agencies, and publishers who publish research results.
Our goal is to help improve society by contributing to the development of academic research through IT. With the spread of the Internet, the world of academic research has undergone explosive evolution and development. The efficiency and speed of academic communication brought about by the Internet has also streamlined and sped up research methods. However, scholarly communication is still in the process of evolution, and many problems remain to be solved, including the problem of "name pooling" of researchers, which ORCID is working on.
We share the vision of ORCID as an academic infrastructure, and at the same time, we see great potential for the future. As an IT company specializing in academia, we hope to achieve integration with various services through ORCID collaboration.
Atlas' academic conference service, Confit, and member management support service, SMOOSY, are linked with ORCID to achieve single sign-on. This is intended to provide the following benefits to the users, researchers and academic societies.
New users will be able to use the services with only an ORCID login, without having to register an account for each of the Confit and SMOOSY services. This eliminates the complexity of managing multiple accounts.
The ORCID ID ensures that the same person can be identified, improving the user experience for users who use Confit and SMOOSY in conjunction with each other.
Since many of the academic association participants who use Confit/SMOOSY are researchers outside of Japan, the implementation of an internationally used ORCID will reduce their resistance and difficulties when registering for the service.