General Information
ORCiD (Open Researcher & Contributor ID) is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. ORCID iD distinguish individuals with common names, and are not affected by name changes, cultural differences in name order, inconsistent abbreviations, or the use of different alphabets.
Works from HeinOnline are visible on your ORCiD author page, and works on your ORCiD author page will appear on your HeinOnline Author Profile.
Why is this important?
Authors who do interdisciplinary work, publish in journals outside of traditional law reviews, or have published books need an ORCiD record to make sure these works appear in their HeinOnline Author Profile. "[B]y creating and adding publications to their ORCID profiles, law scholars can now elect to have their books, interdisciplinary works, and many other works appear in HeinOnline which US News is using as the data source for their scholarly impact ranking." -- https://wisblawg.law.wisc.edu/2020/08/28/law-scholars-can-now-add-books-interdisciplinary-works-to-hein-through-orcid-integration-what-this-could-mean-for-the-us-news-scholarly-impact-ranking/
If you do not have an ORCID iD, you can create one through your HeinOnline Author Profile page. To find your HeinOnline Author Profile Page, do a simple author search using your name in HeinOnline, and select the link.
You should find a button to "Register or Connect your ORCID iD" on your Author Profile page in HeinOnline. Select the button to create your ORCID iD If you do not have a "Register or Connect your ORCID iD" button, you will need to enhance your Author Page. Go to HeinOnline's Author Portal for more information.
Select "Register now" and fill out the fields.
Finally, authorize HeinOnline to fully integrate with ORCID. You will need to verify your email.
Back at your Hein Author Profile, you should see your new ORCID iD. Select "Send Works to ORCID" to send your list of articles to ORCID.
Select “Register or Connect Your ORCID iD.” If you do not have a "Register or Create your ORCID iD" button, you will need to enhance your Author Page. Go to HeinOnline's Author Portal for more information.
Back at your Hein Author Profile, you should see your new ORCID iD. Select "Send Works to ORCID" to send your list of articles to ORCID.
Want to enhance your ORCID record? Check out Best Practices from the ORCID US Community.
