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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>An Overview of ORCID: The Unique Identifier of Researchers Worldwide<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Publishers, funding organizations, and even researchers themselves have faced an ongoing challenge to attribute research to the proper scientist or scholar simply on the basis of a personal name. Names change, authors often write their names differently (e.g. with/without initials), there are cultural differences in name order, and trying to differentiate between authors with very similar names can be next to impossible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>That challenge may now have been met. On October 16, 2012, ORCID (originally the “</span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Open Researcher Contributor Identification Initiative”) began issuing persistent, unique user identifiers</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> that marked the launch of </span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>an open and independent registry intended to be the <i>de facto</i> standard for author identification in science and related academic publishing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>On October 23, 2013 NFAIS will hold a 90-minute webinar (11:00am - 12:30pm EDST) that will provide an overview and update on ORCID to see what it has accomplished during its inaugural year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Our featured speaker will be Laurel L. Haak, ORCID Executive Director, who will discuss the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The mission and objectives of ORCID<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Its benefits to the research and publishing communities<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Current acceptance – who is actually registering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Current usage – if and how they are being embedded in research and scholarly workflows<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Upcoming features<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Collaborations with other persistent identifier/research data exchange initiatives such as the Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI), the International Standard Name Identified (ISNI) and the ORCID and DataCite Interoperability Network (ODIN)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Future directions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If you or your staff want to learn more about this initiative and how it can benefit your organization, register for the NFAIS webinar today. NFAIS members pay $125, Sister Society members pay $150 and non-members pay $195. Three or more staff from NFAIS member organizations can participate for a group fee of $295. The group fee for three or more staff from any Sister Society is $350, and from a non-member organization is $450. The registration form can be accessed at<b>: <a href="http://nfais.org/event?eventID=529"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>http://nfais.org/event?eventID=529</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For more information contact Jill O’Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); </span><a href="mailto:jilloneill@nfais.org"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>mailto:jilloneill@nfais.org</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> or go to </span><a href="http://www.nfais.org/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.nfais.org/</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>