The Membership and service section of your ORCID record is for information about your membership affiliation with an organization and your activities in service of an organization.
Choose Membership when you are a member of a society or association (regardless of whether you pay for your membership). This subtype does not include honorary memberships and fellowships, which should be listed under Invited positions and Distinctions.
Examples of membership include:
- Member of an association or society
- Member of a trade or industry body
Choose Service for significant donations of your time, money, or other resources to an organization or community. This can also include voluntary work.
Examples of service include:
- Volunteer society officer
- Elected board position
- Standards body member
- Expert panel member
- Editorial board member
- Review editor
- Study group member
- Conference organizer
- Conference panel chair
- Committee work
- Project work
- Extension work
Source: ORCID.org
