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Shipped 2026-05-07 · AI The open scientific record is one of the few sources Bower can ground answers in without you connecting anything. Today we make that source materially better: your own publications are now one ORCID iD away, and any DOI in a chat triggers a full OpenAlex lookup.

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ORCID iD on your profile

Add your ORCID iD once, in Account Settings → Profile, and Bower will pull from your public publication list whenever it’s relevant — in chat or in live mode.
  • “What have I published recently on coral alkalinity?”
  • “Find the methods section in my 2024 review”
  • “Has anyone in my lab cited Smith et al 2022?”
We validate the iD against ORCID’s public API on save and confirm it back to you (“Saved as Dr Jane Smith”) so you know it resolved correctly. We only ever read your public ORCID profile, and we don’t bulk-import your works — Bower searches ORCID dynamically and you decide which results to save into your knowledge base. You can also edit your ORCID iD in chat just by telling Bower: “my ORCID is 0000-0002-1825-0097”. Bower validates it, saves it, and confirms.

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OpenAlex DOI recognition

Drop any DOI into a chat — 10.1126/science.abj8754 — and Bower now fetches the full record from OpenAlex (the open catalog of ~250M scholarly works): title, authors, abstract, citations, references, open-access PDF when available. You can immediately ask Bower to summarize it, compare it to your notes, or save it to your workspace as an attachment with full provenance. Same in live mode: read a DOI off a paper and Bower fetches it.

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Always-on, no setup

Both ORCID and OpenAlex are part of Bower’s always-on sources — alongside your Bower workspace and the live web — meaning they work out of the box, with no connector to set up. The connector picker’s Public sources toggle still controls them at the framework level for any chat where you’d rather Bower stay strictly inside your own content.