Library Help: Office For Open Research

What is an ORCID?

An ORCID is a unique, persistent identifier for researchers. It helps distinguish your work from that of others and ensures your research outputs are correctly attributed to you throughout your career. For more information, please see the following article:

• What is an ORCID and why do I need one?

What do PGRs need to do?

As a Postgraduate Researcher (PGR) at The University of Manchester, you are required to claim an ORCID and link it to your University profile. You will be prompted to claim and link your ORCID as part of your Year 1 annual review process in eProg, typically around month 9 for full-time students. Each Faculty uses slightly different forms, but all include a question about your ORCID.

Actions for PGRs:

1. Take action during your Year 1 Annual Review. The form provided by your Faculty will include instructions and a link to our guidance.
2. Create an ORCID if you don’t already have one: https://orcid.org/register.
3. Link your ORCID to your University profile via Pure:
   1. Familiarise yourself with using Pure as a PGR via the dedicated user guides available via the Pure support webpages.
   2. Log in to Pure and follow the steps in our guidance Setting up and synchronsing an ORCID in Pure.
   3. This ensures your affiliation is verified and allows your publications in Pure to sync with your ORCID record.

Why is this important?

• ORCID helps you maintain a single, trusted record of your research outputs.
• Many funders and publishers require researchers to provide their ORCID.
• Linking ORCID with Pure enables automatic updates to your ORCID profile, saving you time.

More information

The Library provides a workshop, delivered in partnership with the Researcher Development team and as part of our My Research Essentials (MRE) programme, to support PGRs to apply Open Research practices throughout the research lifecycle. The workshop runs several times each year and includes information on ORCIDs, as well as guidance to increase PGRs’ understanding of processes and expectations related to planning, submitting, publishing, and sharing research outputs, including PhD theses.

You can find out more, and book a place at an upcoming session, via the University training catalogue:

• Session ID: RESDEV0003
• Session title: Your doctoral thesis as a research output
• Link to session: https://app.manchester.ac.uk/training/profile.aspx?unitid=9406&parentId=4
• Link to University training catalogue: https://app.manchester.ac.uk/training/default.aspx

If you would like any further information or support, please contact the Office for Open Research.