On September 21, 2023, lectures of the Department of Pedagogy and postgraduate students of specialties 011 Educational, Pedagogical Sciences and 015 Professional Education took part in the online lecture "ORCID: profile of a scientist", which was organized by the staff of the Ushynsky University library. The lecture discussed the issues of registration, filling out and maintaining a profile. With the help of a multimedia presentation, algorithms of simple and sequential actions that the user-scientist must perform in order to achieve the desired result are provided. The meeting discussed the features and advantages of ORCID: simplification and automation of the author identification process and ensuring the possibility of unambiguous communication with their publications; elimination of the problem of various variants of transliteration of surnames of researchers, differences in national standards of bibliographic descriptions; providing a unique identifier and providing the possibility of maintaining a personal account for displaying research activities.