The RSC, the Publications Division of the ACS, and Wiley became signatories to the ORCID^® Open Letter. This means, RSC, ACS, and Wiley will collect ORCID iDs as part of the journal manuscript submission process and display them in the articles. ORCID^® is a not-for-profit organization; ORCID iDs are unique and persistent identifier that distinguish one researcher from every other researcher and attribute each published work to the correct researcher.

The publishers automatically deposit publications to CrossRef which will update the authors’ ORCID^® profiles. Authors have to grant permission and then will benefit from these automated linkages between their ORCID^® record and unique identifiers embedded within their published research articles.

• American Chemical Society (ACS) and ACS Publications, Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio, USA
• Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Cambridge, UK
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ, USA
• ORCID^®

Also of Interest

• Your Lifelong Digital Name,
  Alice Meadows,
  ChemViews Mag. 2016.
  DOI: 10.1002/chemv.201600091
  Importance and new developments of ORCID
• ORCID – Unique Author Identifier,
  Alice Meadows, Vera Koester,
  ChemViews Mag. 2015.
  DOI: 10.1002/chemv.201500088
  Alice Meadows, Communications Director ORCID, about the value of ORCID for researchers and organizations