The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “ORCID -The Open Researcher & Contributor ID”

The webinar will present ORCID and will overview its various aspects.

The webinar addresses researchers, information management specialists, software developers, (agricultural) journal editors, related data providers and other interested people.

About the webinar

The objective of this webinar is to provide a short overview about various aspects of the ORCID.

• How can you get or assign ORCID identifiers?
• Where and how is the ORCID used?
• Who's behind the ORCID? 
• What is the business model of ORCID?

Date

19 September 2014 - 11:00 Rome Time (Use Time Converter to calculate the time difference between your location and Rome, Italy)

Presenter

Christian Gutknecht is a specialist for information systems at the Swiss National Science Foundation. Formerly repository manager and involved in Open Access at the University of Bern and University of Zurich. See ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7265-1692 

How to join

The session is open to anyone but places are limited. If you are interested to attend the webinar, send an e-mail to [email protected], containing the following information:

• your name
• your affiliation
• your role
• your country

System requirements

Once you have requested to attend the webinar, you will receive an e-mail confirming your place with an URL access. Make sure that:

• you have good internet connection
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, 10; Mozilla Firefox; Google Chrome
• Adobe® Flash® Player 10.3. If in doubt, go to Checking system requirements of the web conferencing programme Adobe Connect.

Sponsors

This webinar is co-sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) , IICA  and SWISS National Science Foundation.