Researcher sign-in
Sign in to CASRAI
CASRAI uses ORCID for authentication. Your ORCID iD is your researcher identity across the scholarly ecosystem — one sign-in, no new password.
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Have an ORCID iD
Free and ~30 seconds at orcid.org if you don’t already have one. It’s your researcher identity across the scholarly world.
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Sign in with ORCID
Click the button below and authorise CASRAI on ORCID’s page — no new password to create or remember.
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You’re signed in
You’re returned here automatically. Claim CRediT contributions, manage your profile, and subscribe to releases.
Want a public, ORCID-verified author profile? After signing in, add a membership to join the Verified Contributor Directory.
Continue with ORCID
You will be redirected to ORCID to authorise CASRAI. After authorisation you will be returned here and signed in automatically.
What you can do once signed in
A CASRAI account lets you claim CRediT contributions against papers you have authored, with each role mapped to the canonical ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022 URI so funders and institutions can verify your contribution machine-readably. You can manage your researcher profile — display name, affiliation, and the contributions you want to surface publicly — and subscribe to release notifications for the CASRAI Dictionary and CRediT taxonomy, so you hear about new terms, deprecations, and JATS/JSON-LD changes the moment they ship. Because we authenticate via ORCID, your CASRAI identity inherits the same researcher iD already used by your publisher, funder, and institution. Researchers, editors, and publishers who implement CRediT can also join the Verified Contributor Directory — an ORCID-verified public profile with editorially-reviewed journal roles. In a future release the same account will issue API keys for programmatic Dictionary and CRediT integrations.
Sign-in FAQ
Quick answers about ORCID authentication, what we store, and how we protect your session.
Why does CASRAI use ORCID for sign-in?
ORCID is the persistent identifier for researchers worldwide and the de-facto authentication standard across the scholarly ecosystem. Using ORCID means you sign in with the same identity that publishers, funders, and your institution already recognise — and CASRAI never has to store or rotate a password for you.
What does CASRAI receive when I sign in?
Only your ORCID iD, your public display name, and (if you have made it visible) your primary email and current employment affiliation. We do not retrieve your private works list, peer-review history, or any non-public ORCID record fields. You can revoke CASRAI's access at any time from your ORCID account settings.
I do not have an ORCID iD — can I still sign in?
Not directly, but registering an ORCID iD takes about 30 seconds. Visit our explainer at /for-authors/persistent-identifiers for a guided overview, or jump straight to the ORCID registration flow from the sign-in button below — ORCID will guide first-time users through creating an account before returning you to CASRAI.
What can I do once I am signed in?
You can claim CRediT contributions against papers you have authored, manage your researcher profile, subscribe to dictionary release notifications, and (in a future release) generate API keys for programmatic access. Claimed contributions appear publicly on your CASRAI profile unless you mark them private.
How does CASRAI protect my session?
We use an HTTP-only, Secure, SameSite=Lax JWT cookie scoped to casrai.org. Sessions expire after 30 days of inactivity. We never store ORCID OAuth refresh tokens in browser-readable storage, and we do not share your session with third-party analytics or advertising services.
Talk to a human
Questions before you join, or stuck on a step? Email membership@casrai.org
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