text: **INSTITUTIONS**
  
  Save time and reduce errors 
  with automated 
  information-sharing and 
  cross-system interoperability 
  
  Spend more time doing 
  research, less time managing it 
  
  **Identify, track, and report on**
  **researchers’ affiliations and**
  **contributions (publications, peer**
  **reviews, grants, and more)**
  Manage your organization 
  name and your researchers' 
  connections with it 
  
  Control and manage a trusted 
  and easily shareable record of 
  their research activities and 
  affiliations – for free 
  **Why Connect with ORCID?**
  **Hundreds of members and systems use ORCID globally** Maintain links with your 
  researchers - past, 
  present, and future 
  
  **Institutions Face a Rising**
  **Tide of Research**
  **5.5 MILLION+**
  **live ORCID iDs registered since its 2012 launch**
  
  **OVER 3 MILLION**
  **Three Ways to Get Involved**
  **scholarly articles published per year**
  Source: The STM Report, October 2018 
  
  **1. Encourage and support your researchers in getting, sharing, and**
  **using their ORCID iD**
  **2. Invest in integrating ORCID into your systems**
  **3. Connect data to and from your researchers’ ORCID records to**
  **support information use and reuse across organizations**