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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.

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