How to reconnect your ORCID to your Elements profile

Answered By: David McTaggart
Last Updated: 03 Jul 2025 Views: 472

If you have an ORCID in your Elements profile but it isn't connected to your ORCID profile, you will need to reconnect it.

  1. Log in to Elements and select the menu

  1. Choose ORCID Settings

  1. Click on the Connect your ORCID iD button

  1. Sign into your ORCID account

  1. You will be directed back to Elements where you will be able to set up how you want Elements and ORCID to share data. Choose from the available options are

a) read from and write publication data to my ORCID account - This action will send publications from Symplectic Elements to your ORCID account. This makes it possible for you to easily share your research information and keep it up-to-date. Information will be synchronised between Symplectic Elements and your ORCID account.

b) read data from my ORCID account - Granting 'Read' permission will allow Symplectic Elements to use the information in your ORCID account to improve the accuracy of your search results.

c) only use my ORCID iD to support automatic claiming - Removing 'Read' permission will prevent Symplectic Elements from using information in your ORCID account to improve the accuracy of your search results.

  1. If you select read from and write you will need to choose which Elements publications will be shared with ORCiD

a) Choose published and published online journal articles

b) Sends all publications to ORCiD regardless of privacy level (if it is public or private)

c) Only ‘favourited’ articles will be shared

  1. Run Sync to populate your ORCiD profile with the publications selected in step 7.

  2. Select home to finish and return to the homepage

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