<div dir="ltr">Italy will be implementing ORCID on a national scale, and has signed a three-year consortium membership agreement with ORCID.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>Under the auspices of ANVUR and CRUI (the Conference of Italian University Rectors), 70 universities and four research centers will initially participate in the consortium. This large-scale adoption will underpin the IRIDE (Italian Researcher IDentifier for Evaluation) Project, using a platform developed by Cineca.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​<b><font color="#ff0000"> ​</font></b></div><b><font color="#ff0000">The project’s goal is to ensure that at least 80% of Italian researchers have an ORCID iD, with links to their research output back to 2006, by the end of 2016.</font></b><div><br><a href="http://www.infodocket.com/2015/06/22/italy-launches-national-orcid-implementation-70-universities-and-research-centers-will-participate/">http://www.infodocket.com/2015/06/22/italy-launches-national-orcid-implementation-70-universities-and-research-centers-will-participate/</a></div></div>