Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:20:58 +0000

Dear Colleagues,

In the AuthorCarpentry training initiative (https://authorcarpentry.github.io/), establishing scholarly identity with ORCiD is a core learning objective.  Our curriculum relies on ORCiD numbers, publication lists, and profiles as critical infrastructure to integrate with the various elements of the scholarly web. We are teaching AuthorCarpentry at Caltech, at the CODATA-RDA Summer School in Research Data Science, at the Force11 Scholarly Communication Institute, and as a tutorial at professional conferences such as the Artificial Intelligence Conference Feb 2017.

AuthorCarpentry is a not-for-profit initiative supported by researchers and librarians. We believe authorship training is best sustained in the commons to ensure persistence and sustainability, earn authors' trust, and reduce conflicts of interest around author choices. In this 'attention economy' where authors can be  predators' bait, authors appreciated neutral, publisher-independent professional support that has no skin in the game.

We welcome contributions to, and wide reuse of, our training materials!  Please feel free to add to our list at https://github.com/AuthorCarpentry/planning/issues or email us at [log in to unmask]library.edu

Best wishes,

Gail

Gail P. Clement  | Head of Research Services  | Caltech Library  | Mail Code 1-43  | Pasadena CA 91125-4300  | 626-395-1203
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5494-4806 | library.caltech.edu