• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.151-174
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• 2017

The diffusion of the internet, the advancement of ICT technology, and digital diffusion have facilitated the streamlining and acceleration of scholarly communication and speeding up research, and the paradigm of scholarly information dissemination is changing. This study introduces the ORCID, a unique author identifier, and examines the ORCID organization's activities, the advantages given to researchers and research institutes, and the membership status. In addition, this paper examines adoptions and utilizations of ORCID in major countries including USA, UK, Italy, and China. Based on this, this paper suggests the necessary considerations for utilizing ORCID in terms of governance, system elements, policy and institutional aspects in an effort to identify authors at national level.