> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.bowerlabs.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# ORCID iD on your profile + OpenAlex DOI lookup

> Save your ORCID iD once and Bird knows your publications. Drop a DOI and Bird fetches the full record from OpenAlex. Both work in chat and in live mode.

**Shipped 2026-05-07 · AI**

The open scientific record is one of the few sources Bird 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.

## ORCID iD on your profile

Add your ORCID iD once, in **Account Settings → Profile**, and Bird
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 — Bird 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 Bird:
*"my ORCID is 0000-0002-1825-0097"*. Bird validates it, saves it, and
confirms.

## OpenAlex DOI recognition

Drop any DOI into a chat — `10.1126/science.abj8754` — and Bird now
fetches the full record from OpenAlex (the open catalogue of \~250M
scholarly works): title, authors, abstract, citations, references,
open-access PDF when available. You can immediately ask Bird to
summarise 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 Bird fetches it.

## Always-on, no setup

Both ORCID and OpenAlex are part of Bird'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 Bird stay strictly inside your own
content.

## Related docs

* [Connectors — what Bird already searches without setup](/integrations/connectors)
* [Personal preferences](/ai-and-search/personal-preferences)