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ORCID is an independent non-profit organization that provides a persistent identifier – an ORCID iD – that distinguishes you from other researchers and a mechanism for linking your research outputs and activities to your iD. ORCID is integrated into many systems used by publishers, funders, institutions, and other research-related services.
ZORA (University of Zurich) is collecting your ORCID iD so that your publications are safely assigned to your authorship. By authorising ZORA to use your ORCID iD, you can do the following:
To acknowledge that you have used your iD and that it has been authenticated, we display the ORCID iD icon alongside your name in ZORA.
Members of the University Hospitals (UniversityHospital Zurich, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Balgrist University Hospital, University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich, Center for Dental Medicine) do not automatically have the necessary login data for ZORA. These must be requested from the person responsible for IT: List of IT responsibles
You need a SWITCH edu-ID in order to log into ZORA. You can find more information on Login to ZORA.
No. An ORCID iD is a personal iD and only you are responsible for its registration and use.
When registering, you must provide an email address; the registration process will send you an email with a confirmation link that you must click.
For quality reasons, only submitters (ideally trained by the ZORA team) are allowed to deposit publications in ZORA.
If you own the submitter role, select the option "ORCID Import" on the page "Manage Deposits" and click the "Import" button. Then select either your own iD or the iD of a user who had delegated you (see qestion 8).
Select the tab "Tag publications" in the ORCID page of ZORA. Then select your iD from the selection menu and click on the "Find publications" button.
ZORA's tagging algorithm does the following:
You can delegate the tagging task to another person, for example your secretary or to library staff (see question 8).
Yes. You can delegate this task to another person, for example, in your secretary's office or in a library. This person must have the submitter role.
Log in to ZORA (Login). Click on ORCID tab in the ZORA menu bar. Here you will find the section "Delegated User" right under the user settings. Enter the UZH short name of the delegated person here and click the "Update Delegated Users" button. You can define several users who are allowed to tag publications in ZORA with your ORCID iD on your behalf.
The prerequisite for this is that your publications are already tagged with your iD (see next question) and you have deposited your iD in ZORA. Delegated users cannot take on this task for the authors.
Select the tab "My Publications / Export" in the ORCID page of ZORA and click on the button "Search".
Then tick all publications you want to export. After that, click on the "Export selected entries" button.
Publications that already exist in your ORCID record are marked (Update) on the right margin. Your metadata is tracked as you tick and export.
If all listed publications are your own, you can export them to your ORCID record at once by clicking on "Export all items".
No. You and only you are responsible for and control what publications and information is accessible on your ORCID record.
UZH's current membership in ORCID (Basic Member) does not allow us to automatically track your publications.
We recommend that you periodically export your new publications from ZORA to your ORCID record, for example after the publication of the annual academic report.
Your ORCID iD is displayed in the following ZORA pages:
Furthermore, your ORCID iD will output in the following export formats for publications:
Export format for works in your ORCID record (only authenticated iDs and iDs from
Since academic reporting is connected to ZORA, we pass on your ORCID iD to AKABER. This makes it easier to assign your publications to you.
Using the ZORA component of the UZH WCMS, you can easily integrate your publication list. In the ORCID field, enter your ORCID iD.
For this to work and the list to be complete and unique, you should tag your publications in ZORA with your ORCID iD (see question 7).
When you leave UZH, you will lose access to different systems because your shortname/WebPass password will be deleted. So also to ZORA. An algorithm in ZORA detects this and automatically sets your ZORA account to retired. All authorizations that you permitted to ZORA via the deposit of your ORCID iD are reset, so that no one can import publications from your ORCID record or tag publications. Your ORCID iD remains deposited and can still be used by the submitters for the manual author lookup, when they are entering a work by another UZH author who is your coauthor.
If you wish your ZORA account including the ORCID iD to be completely deleted, please contact the Open Science Services Team: oa@ub.uzh.ch