Managing Your Scholarly Record with ORCiD

Once you've added works to your record and publish with your ORCID iD, there's only a small amount of maintenance required from time to time. There are two sections of your account that you may wish to manage:

• Trusted parties: manage who has access to your account. This includes both individuals (i.e., account delegates) and organizations (such as Pitt, Crossref, etc.).
• Visibility: change the default visibility settings for your entire record or specific items.

Adding Trusted Individuals

Trusted individuals, or account delegates, are typically administrative support staff who can manage your ORCID record for you. They can add and edit almost any information on your record, with the exception of adding email addresses, changing passwords, or deleting your account.

• Click on your name at the top of page and select Trusted parties from the dropdown menu.

• Scroll to the Trusted individuals section at the bottom of the page. The trusted individual needs to have an ORCID iD, but it's okay if they don't publish or their record is empty, they can still get an ORCID iD. Search by their ORCID iD, email address, or name once they've registered.

Removing Trusted Parties

Click Revoke access next to the name of the person or organization to revoke access.

You can adjust the visibility settings for your entire ORCID record, as well as the individual items across different sections. The three visibility settings are:

• Everyone: everyone can view your record
• Trusted Organizations: only the organizations and trusted individuals that you authorize can view your record.
• Only Me: only yourself and trusted individuals can view your record.

ORCID Record

Change the visibility settings for your entire record by clicking on your name at the top of the screen, select Account settings from the dropdown menu, and click Visibility. The setting you select will be applied to all items you add to ORCID.

Individual Items

Set visibility settings for individual items in your ORCID record. Doing so will override the settings selected for your entire ORCID record.