[Apologies for duplicate postings.] ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID initiative, has launched today and can now be used by researchers to create a profile and ID for themselves. http://about.orcid.org/. More details can be found here: http://about.orcid.org/news/2012/10/16/orcid-launches-registry. Lisa ----------------------------------------------- Lisa Schiff, Ph.D. Technical Lead Access & Publishing Group California Digital Library<http://www.cdlib.org/> University of California Office of the President 415 20th Street, 4th Floor Oakland, CA 94612-2901 510-987-0881 (t) 510-893-5212 (f) Follow eScholarship<http://www.escholarship.org/> on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/eScholarship/248923236748> and Twitter<http://twitter.com/eScholarship>Received on Tue Oct 16 2012 - 18:09:58 EDT