ORCID: Open Researcher and Contributor ID: Your ORCID Record: Beyond Basics

You can add "Trusted Individuals" to your account to give permission to others to update your records. The trusted individuals will not be able to do things that require your password (adding email addresses, changing password, deleting account), for security reasons.

1. Sign in to your ORCID account, and select your name in the top right corner.
2. Select "Trusted parties" from the drop down menu
3. Scroll down to the "Trusted Individuals" section
4. Enter the ORCID iD, email address, or names of the people you want to add as a trusted individual
5. Select "Add as a trusted individual" next to the person you want to add

If you want to remove a trusted individual from your account, simply follow the first three steps above, and select "Revoke access" next to the person you want to remove as a trusted individual.

SciENcv (Science Expert Network Curriculum Vitae) is a feature in My NCBI that allows users to create a shareable professional online biographical sketch or profile (Biosketch) for use in a grant proposal. When creating a Biosketch in SciENcv, you have the option to link your Biosketch to your ORCID record, and by doing so you can import your ORCID citations directly into your Biosketch. You first need to link your ORCID account to your NCBI account, and then you can use your linked ORCID account to created a SciENcv Biosketch.

Linking Your ORCID Account to NCBI Account

1. Log in to your NCBI Account: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/account/
2. Select your username/email in the top right corner of the screen

3. Select "Account Settings" from the drop down menu
4. Go down to "Linked Accounts" and select "Add account"

5. Search for "ORCID" and log in to your ORCID account
6. Select "Authorize Access"
7. Your ORCID will now be linked to your NCBI Account

Creating a Biosketch in SciENcv Using ORCID

1. Log in to your NCBI Account: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/account/
2. Go down to the SciENcv box on the dashboard, and select "Click here"

3. Edit or create your profile by selecting edit or create next to "My Profile"
4. Add your name and link your your ORCID to your profile in the pop up box, and select save
5. Select "+ New Document" next to My Documents
6. Name your document and select the document type that you want to create
7. Select "Use an External Source" for data source, and select ORCID from the drop down menu
8. Select "Create"
9. SciENcv will populate the document with information from your ORCID. For more information on how to use and create different Biosketch types, use the SciENcv help page

At this time there is no quick way to move citations from My NCBI to ORCID. However, you can download your citations from My NCBI as plain text (.txt) files (shown in the first steps below) and use an online software  or reference manager to convert .txt to .bib files. ORCID will allow you to upload your files in .bib format.

Download Citations from your NCBI Account

1. Log in to your NCBI Account: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/account/
2. Select your username/email in the top right corner of the screen

3. Select "Publications" from the drop down menu
4. Select the box under "Manage citations" to select all the publications on the page, or select the boxes next to the individual publications you want to export
5. Select "Manage citations" at the top of the page
6. Select "Export file (MEDLINE)" to download a .txt file

Convert .txt to .bib

Once you have the .txt file from your NCBI account, the next step is to convert this file into a .bib file that you can upload into ORCID. One way to do this is uploading the .txt file to a citation manager, and then exporting the publications as a .bib file from your citation manager.

This process varies between citation managers. We have instructions for importing and exporting from various citation managers on our Choosing a Citation Manager guide.

Import BibTeX

Now that you have a .bib file, you can add the works to your ORCID account by selecting "Add" next to works, and then "Add BibTex" from the drop down menu.

For more information on importing BibTeX, see the previous page of this guide, which includes a section on importing BibTeX, and this article from ORCID about Importing works from a BibTeX file.

Contact the UNC ORCID Team with any questions or issues that you may have.