We sent you an email asking you to connect your ORCID iD to the journal. It is one click, it takes about a minute, and it is the only thing we need from you.
An iD that has been typed into a form is just text. An iD you have confirmed by signing in at ORCID is confirmed by ORCID itself, so your name on the article points to your record rather than to something we transcribed.
What happens when you click
If you already have an ORCID iD on your record with us, you are taken to orcid.org, you sign in, and you approve the connection. You are not creating anything new. Your iD is the same afterwards.
If we have no iD for you, the same link invites you to create one. That is free and takes a few minutes. If you would rather not, you do not have to, and nothing about your article changes.
Either way you end up back on the journal site, and the iD on your article is marked as authenticated.
Is the email genuine
The email comes from the journal and the link goes to orcid.org, where you sign in to ORCID and not to us. We will never ask you for your journal password, and no message about ORCID asks you for a payment.
If anything about the message looks wrong to you, do not click it. Forward it to contact@asidejournals.com and we will tell you whether it came from us. Our address is all in lower case.
We only ask once
We send this request once per person, per record. If you have already connected your iD, you will not be asked again.
If you cannot find the email, or you deleted it, write to contact@asidejournals.com with the journal and the article, and we can send it again.
If the link does not work
Two things account for most cases:
- The link was opened in an app that strips part of the address. Copy it into a browser instead.
- You are already signed in to ORCID as a different person. Sign out at orcid.org first, then use the link again.
If neither of those helps, tell us what the ORCID page said and we will look into it. Do not create a second ORCID iD to work around it — two iDs for one researcher is a harder problem to unpick later than the one you are having now.