diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 91808e713465fdf7cc36adee3846e2da781ef527..ca51c33c229044b6168db466a278b9baddb1e912 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Authors@R: c(person("Helge", "Jentsch",
   comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4354-7711")), 
   person("Nadine", "Kaul", 
   email = "nadine.kaul@uni-hamburg.de", 
+  comment = c(ORCID = "0009-0002-0271-8019"),
   role = c("ctb")))
 Maintainer: Helge Jentsch <helge.marc.ole.jentsch@uni-hamburg.de>
 Description: This package `ClimDatDownloadR` provides functions to download, pre-process and 
@@ -30,6 +31,8 @@ Description: This package `ClimDatDownloadR` provides functions to download, pre
     and Fick and Hijmans (2017) <doi:10.1002/joc.5086> (WorldClim 2.1). 
     A applied comparison of the two data sets is given by 
     Bobrowski & Schickhoff 2017 <doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.05.021>.
+URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7924343,
+        https://gitlab.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/helgejentsch/climdatdownloadr
 YEAR: 2021-2023
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 Encoding: UTF-8
@@ -42,7 +45,7 @@ Suggests: knitr, testthat, usethis, rmarkdown
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
 SystemRequirements: Tested with at least 4 GB RAM.
 NeedsCompilation: no
-Packaged: 2023-05-04 08:24:48 UTC; helge
+Packaged: 2023-05-11 12:43:21 UTC; helge
 Author: Helge Jentsch [aut, cre],
   Maria Bobrowski [aut],
   Johannes Weidinger [aut],
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 283c663b7fd08f570aaad9a9664e5c7f696cc85a..55a65a97075b589b4668e0ce66eb13117fc8fe19 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
-## Welcome to the help-page of ClimDatDownloadR
-
-To get started please proceed further down under the update section. 
-
-
-_This R-package was developed as a student project for the masters programm Geography at the Universität Hamburg, Germany._
+## Welcome to the ClimDatDownloadR 
+This R-package was developed as a student project for the masters programm Geography at the Universität Hamburg, Germany. 
 
 ## Update 04.05.2023
 
@@ -16,12 +12,14 @@ and if you need the dependencies via
 
 `install.packages(c("gdalUtils", "httr", "ncdf4", "qpdf", "raster", "RCurl", "RefManageR", "rgdal", "stringr", "sf", "sp", "svMisc", "terra", "utils"), dependencies = TRUE)`
 
-
 I would appreciate your feedback and possible bug reports. 
 If you find anything, please send an email to [helge.marc.ole.jentsch@uni-hamburg.de](<mailto:helge.marc.ole.jentsch@uni-hamburg.de>)
 
 Thank you very much for using ClimDatDownloadR! 
 
+If you want to cite ClimDatDownloadR you can find the package on Zenodo via [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.7924343.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7924343)
+
+
 ## A warm welcome
 
 Hello and welcome to the ClimDatDownloadR R-package.