Allow configuration of the ORCID ID as required

[amandastevens]

Multiple publishers have requested the option to make the ORCID ID field mandatory for the submitting author on the submission form. In cases where publishers require an author's ORCID ID, making the field required would save the publishers' time in tracking down missing IDs, as well as encouraging the use of ORCID in general.

This was requested on the forum: https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/making-orcid-required-field/45810/

There is some discussion in the forum post about how to make the ID required for only the submitting author and not all authors, so perhaps it could be instead required on the user registration form and for that information to be used in the submitting author's contributor record. Making the ORCID ID required on the user registration form has also been requested on the forum by multiple users.

[alexxxmendonca]

This would be very helpful for us, indeed.

One thing to keep in mind about requiring it at the account level is to be careful not to raise issues when creating reviewer accounts by Journal Managers or by Section Editors on the fly (before inviting a reviewer).

Maybe we're talking about two situations:

• Option to require it at the user level (every user who registers themselves must provide an ORCID ID).
• Option to require it at the submission level.

[ajnyga]

I suggested almost the same thing for the forthcoming sprint just yesterday

This is something that has been required in the PPS work as well and needs to be managed from the ORCID plugin and could/should be a shared feature for all three applications.