<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Segoe UI WPC','Segoe UI',Tahoma,'Microsoft Sans Serif',Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">Dear Colleagues</span></font></div>
<div style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Segoe UI WPC','Segoe UI',Tahoma,'Microsoft Sans Serif',Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>Please share with your networks. Message has been cross-posted. </i></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></div>
<div style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Segoe UI WPC','Segoe UI',Tahoma,'Microsoft Sans Serif',Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><a href="http://www.liasa.org.za/node/126" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">LIASA HELIG</span></font></a><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"> in collaboration with </span></font><a href="http://www.assaf.co.za/" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">ASSAf (Academy of Science of South Africa)</span></font></a><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"> takes pleasure in inviting you to our webinar on ORCID ID. Similar to a national identification number, researchers within a digital environment needs a researcher identification number to distinguish them from other researchers with similar names and interests. </span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>More information below. </i></span></font><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></div>
</div><div style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Segoe UI WPC','Segoe UI',Tahoma,'Microsoft Sans Serif',Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">All librarians interested, as well as researchers from various institutions, are invited to join us from the convenience of their e-devices. </span></font><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></div>
</div><div style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Segoe UI WPC','Segoe UI',Tahoma,'Microsoft Sans Serif',Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>More details</b></span></font><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></div>
</div><div style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Segoe UI WPC','Segoe UI',Tahoma,'Microsoft Sans Serif',Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Date:</b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"> Wednesday 17 September 2014</span></font></div>
</div><div style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Segoe UI WPC','Segoe UI',Tahoma,'Microsoft Sans Serif',Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Time:</b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"> 14:00 - 15:00 SA Time</span></font></div>
</div><div style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Segoe UI WPC','Segoe UI',Tahoma,'Microsoft Sans Serif',Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Venue: </b></span></font><a href="http://tex.sun.ac.za/" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">http://tex.sun.ac.za</span></font></a><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"> (please test beforehand and arrange a test session with us should you want to have your researchers/staff convene together in one venue)</span></font></div>
</div><div style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Segoe UI WPC','Segoe UI',Tahoma,'Microsoft Sans Serif',Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Presenter:</b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"> Dr Rebecca Bryant, Director of Community, ORCID</span></font></div>
</div><div style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Segoe UI WPC','Segoe UI',Tahoma,'Microsoft Sans Serif',Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Please register at:</b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><a href="http://conferences.sun.ac.za/index.php/liasa/voawr/schedConf/registration" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">http://conferences.sun.ac.za/index.php/liasa/voawr/schedConf/registration</span></font></a><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></div>
</div><div style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Segoe UI WPC','Segoe UI',Tahoma,'Microsoft Sans Serif',Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">The above webinar forms part of our </span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Virtual Open Access Week Roadshow</b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">, building up momentum towards </span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Open Access Week from 20-26 October 2014</b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">.</span></font><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></div>
<div><div><div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>More about ORCID: Connecting Research and Researchers </b></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" color="#282828"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>
</span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" color="#282828"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt">As researchers and scholars, we struggle to have our work discovered, recognized, and uniquely connected to us. Names may be common, change, or can be misspelled, and it's difficult to assess and understand outputs throughout one's career. ORCID is an open, non-profit, and global initiative that provides a unique identifier to scholars and researchers, one that stays with them throughout their careers--through graduate school, postdocs, and beyond, regardless of discipline, name changes, and geographic and institutional moves. The ORCID identifier is free to researchers, and it also connects them to their publications, professional associations, grants, and universities through the interoperable exchange of information. Publishers now request ORCID iDs during manuscript submission, funding organizations are incorporating into grant proposals, universities are creating ORCID iDs for their graduate students, and faculty, and professional societies are incorporating into their membership renewal. Through the widespread adoption of ORCID throughout the global scholarly community, we can all spend less time entering data, discovering research of interest, and we can also better track outputs. </span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" color="#282828"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>
</span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" color="#282828"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt">Please join Dr. Rebecca Bryant, Director of Community at ORCID, to learn more about the ORCID initiative. Before joining ORCID in 2013, Dr. Bryant served as Assistant Dean in the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, overseeing career & professional development activities, postdoc affairs, and academic policies for more than 10,000 graduate students and postdocs at Illinois.</span></font><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></div>
</div><div><div><div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="https://vimeo.com/97150912" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" color="#6AA84F">Watch our video on </font><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" color="#6AA84F"><i>What is ORCID?</i></font></a></span></font><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></div>
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<font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">Kind regards</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">HELIG NATIONAL TEAM</span></font></div>
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