Friends: Please see http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/12/15/all-about-orcid/ and the comments that follow the main text 'All about ORCID' posted by Ms Alice Meadows. This survey has revealed that support for ORCID is growing rapidly among students, researchers, librarians, research institutions, journals, and funders worldwide. The latest to mandate ORCID is the Royal Society which would insist on authors providing their ORCID iD from January 2016. There is no reason why we in India should lag behind. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.