Major publishers sign the ORCID Open Letter

In January 2016, eight publishers signed an open letter committing their organizations to requiring ORCID iDs for journal authors. Importantly, they also committed to adopting our best practices when implementing this requirement, to ensure that it would benefit their authors, their organizations, and the wider scholarly community. This includes collecting validated ORCID iDs to ensure the correct iD is associated with the author, displaying iDs in articles to signal support for ORCID, and including ORCID iDs with the metadata sent to Crossref to support auto-update of authors’ ORCID records when their article publishes.

The eight original signatories – AGU, eLife, EMBO, Hindawi, IEEE, PLOS, The Royal Society, and Science journals – were joined by a further 12 publishers in the months that followed, and 10 publishers have now gone live with their ORCID requirement. On November 28, their efforts received a significant boost when two major societies – the American Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry – and one of the world’s largest scholarly publishers, Wiley, signed the letter.

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