Open scholarship: introduction to persistent identifiers
Persistent Identifiers (PID’s) provide a consistent way of digitally referencing items that aims to be more reliable than a simple web address. This is important for scholarly communications because citation and attribution are essential elements of scholarly apparatus. This course will introduce you to the concept of Persistent Identifiers, the problems that they address, and how they can be used in the academic environment to simplify some tasks. It will examine several different types of identifier, some of which are currently widely used (DOI’s for publications/data and ORCID’s for researchers) and others which are emerging in importance.

Intended audience: Oxford students, researchers and other staff.
Date: 9 May 2024, 10:00
Venue: Online via Microsoft Teams
Speaker: Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Organising department: Bodleian Research and Learning Support
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Organiser contact email address: usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Open Scholarship
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ask/workshops#/course/OXFORDBODL/OPENS0009
Cost: Free
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Helen Bond, Melanie Smith