According to the organization's website, "ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID ID) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher." It is important to distinguishing you as author and to connect all of your works. Scholars in other disciplines have used ORCID IDs for many years. HeinOnline now uses it to distinguish authors, and it even has a link to set up your ORCID ID from your author profile page (which must first be setup). You may also set up an account according to the instructions in the next box. The Institutional Repository will eventually use ORCD IDs in the metadata for your posted works.
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