<div dir="ltr">ORCID (<a href="http://orcid.org">http://orcid.org</a>) is a non-profit organization that provides an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers. ORCID works with the community to ensure that this identifier is embedded in research workflows and becomes part of the metadata associated with research works and activities. The combination of these two ORCID mission activities—common open identifier and linking—can solve the name ambiguity problem in research and scholarly communications, critical for improving discoverability and interoperability between systems. For researchers, this means less time searching to find information and less time entering data on forms such as grant applications and post-award reporting. At the institutional level this means less time and more accuracy in identifying researchers and their works for training and outcomes evaluation reporting.<br>
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