ORCID at LSE

Creating an ORCID iD is fast, simple, and free of charge. You only need to enter your name and email address and create a password to get started. Privacy settings for your ORCID profile are in your control. You can then use your ORCID whenever you apply for a grant or submit an article for publication. You can also add it to your CV, your departmental profile page and your email signature.

If you try to register with the same email address as before, ORCID will ask you to log in rather than register; at this stage you can request to reset your password for that email address. However, if you register with a different email address, ORCID will assume you are a different person.

If you have more than one ORCID iD, please contact us so we can arrange for ORCID to merge your iDs so you only have one.

Go to Researcher FAQs for information on administrative aspects of setting up and maintaining an ORCID iD. There is also information on their support pages about grouping multiple versions of the same work, managing the visibility of your profile, and trusted organisations.

Watch video tutorials to find out more about ORCID and setting up an ORCID iD.

For information on the organisation, its aims and objectives, go to About ORCID.

All LSE research active staff can link their ORCID to Pure. If you are an LSE PhD student, a visiting fellow or a member of Professional Services staff, we would still encourage you to create an ORCID — so that you have an identifier that uniquely distinguishes you, and your research outputs, from other researchers.

Watch the video or follow the steps below.

1. Login to Pure using your LSE username and password.

2. Once logged in, open your Personal overview workspace (located under Personal) at the top of the workspace, click Edit profile…

3. In the new tab or pop-up window, click on ‘Create or Connect your ORCID iD’, which is located under Personal identification.

4. Read the ‘Connect with your ORCID iD’ disclaimer, agreeing to the read and/or write requests before clicking proceed to be redirected to the ORCID login page.

Note: Agreeing to read access is mandatory to complete the setup and it is strongly recommended that you allow write access so LSE can keep your ORCID profile up to date.

5. If you have an account you can log in, if you do not have an account click ‘register’.

6. Once logged in, you’ll be presented with an authorise access page. Read carefully before clicking ‘Authorize access’.

7. You’ll now be redirected back to your Pure profile where you should see your ORCID iD, the authentication status, the level of access granted (read/write), as well as a message stating: ORCID for ‘your name’ applied.

8. Click save at the bottom to close the editor window. You have now linked your ORCID iD to Pure.

In order to save researchers’ time, the School has entered ORCID iDs for some staff. You may still need to authorise LSE as a ‘Trusted Party’ to enable us to populate your ORCID record. If you need to do this, then directly below the ID the text will state ‘Authorise export of content to ORCID’.

This can be confirmed via your personal overview workspace in Pure, which displays your ORCID iD, the authentication status and read/write access granted.

Read access, once granted cannot be revoked via Pure. However, you can revoke access to any organisation from within your ORCID account settings. Please see ORCID guidance on trusted organisations to learn more.

Write access can be revoked by clicking on re-authenticate, which is located on your personal overview workspace, followed by deselecting the tick box "I hereby allow Pure to export content on my behalf"

If, when entering your LSE username and password, you are unable to log in to Pure, please contact the Research and Innovation division at research.systems@lse.ac.uk for assistance.

If, after logging into Pure, you are unable to see the "Personal" menu/workspace, the likely cause is that you have no publications currently associated with your account. You can however enable the menu via your user profile settings. To do this, click on your username in the top menu bar. Under the profile menu, tick the box "Always show the personal workspace", followed by clicking on the save button.

Note: After enabling, you’ll need to log out to refresh the workspace. Once logged in again, the menu options should appear. If the above does not work, please contact the Research and Innovation division at research.systems@lse.ac.uk.

New outputs will be added as part of a monthly update, once they have been published, marked as public in Pure and validated by the Library. The update will take place on the 1st of each month. Queries relating to this process can be sent to lseresearchonline@lse.ac.uk.

No, you can independently upload your research outputs. To do this, log in at cris.lse.ac.uk, click on Edit profile and select the option ‘Export’ to the right of your ORCID iD. On later review, your profile will show a ‘last exported’ date to indicate when content was last exported.

Follow the video guide to manually initiate an upload from Pure.