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Incorporating the World Directory of Crystallographers

User registration

This page gives information on the fields in the IUCr's user registration form. These fall into the following categories:

• World Directory of Crystallographers
• Biographical information
• Address(es)
• Telephone number(s)
• Fax number(s)
• Role(s) within the IUCr
• Other role(s)
• General area(s) of scientific interest
• Detailed scientific research interests
• General interests
• Information on products and services
• E-mail address(es)
• Portrait image
• Audio file
• IUCr ID and password

World Directory of Crystallographers

The World Directory of Crystallographers is the IUCr's free online database of crystallographers (and of other scientists using crystallographic methods). Inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers is optional for all registered users of the IUCr's web services. If you do not wish to be included in the Directory, do not tick the box for inclusion. Not all elements of your personal information will be made public as part of a World Directory of Crystallographers entry; those that will be are indicated below.

Biographical information

Honorific, such as 'Dr', 'Professor' or 'Ms'. Select the most appropriate title from the drop-down list, or leave blank. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

Your given name or names within your family (e.g. 'Robert Louis' or 'Chun-Jung'). (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

The initial letters of your first name or names (e.g. 'R. L.' or 'C.-J.'). (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

The form of your name by which you prefer to be addressed informally, if this is not your full first name (e.g. 'Bob'). (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

Your family name (e.g. 'Stevenson' or 'Chen'). This is a required field. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

Your maiden or unmarried name, if your name has changed on marriage, or your previous name if your name has changed for some other reason. This is useful, for example if you have published research work under an earlier name. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

E.g. 'Jr' or 'III'. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

The four-digit year in which you were born (e.g. '1953'). (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

This is the URL of your main home page, if you have one. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

If you have an alternative home page, its URL should go here. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

Your main occupation, position or job title (e.g. 'Professor', 'Lecturer'). (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

The type of institution in which you work, if any (e.g. 'government laboratory'). (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

Your highest degree (e.g. 'DSc'). (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

The institution which awarded your highest degree. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

The year in which your highest degree was awarded. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

The subject area of your highest degree. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

Address(es)

Your department or division within your organization. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

The name of your institution or organization. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

The street component of your address, including details of the district within a town or city. This is a required field. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

Your city or town. This is a required field. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

Your state, province, county or region. Please use any standard abbreviated form for postal delivery (e.g. 'TX', 'Leics.', 'NSW'). (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

The postcode or zip code of your address. This is a required field. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

Your country. This is a required field. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

If you have more than one address, click on this button to identify which address is your main address.

It may be useful to add a note to your address if you have more than one, describing what address it is (e.g. 'home address'). (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

If the above components of your address have to be written in a certain order when mail is addressed to you, and this order is nonstandard or includes components for which there are not fields above, then you may add a 'mailing label' form of your address here.

To remove an address, tick this box. When you save your changes, the address will be removed. (Note that trying to remove your main address will cause an error.)

Telephone number(s)

Telephone numbers should include country and area codes; extension numbers may be added with a preceding 'x' (e.g. '44(1244)342878x215', '1(716)852608'). (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

If you have more than one telephone number, click on this button to identify which one is your main number. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

You may add a note to each telephone number (e.g. 'Home number'). (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

To remove a number, tick this box. When you save your changes, the number will be removed.

Fax number(s)

Fax numbers should include country and area codes (e.g. 44(1244)31288). (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

If you have more than one fax number, click on this button to identify which one is your main number. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

You may add a note to each fax number (e.g. 'Shared office fax number'). (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

To remove a number, tick this box. When you save your changes, the number will be removed.

Role(s) within the International Union of Crystallography

Role within the a body of the IUCr. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

The IUCr body for which you carry out the specified role. (If you have a role within an IUCr body which is not included here, please mail wdc@iucr.org.) (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

To remove a role, tick this box. When you save your changes, the role will be removed.

Other role(s)

Use this field for roles you have in other professional and crystallography-related organizations, such as memberships of national crystallographic committees and societies, editorial positions on scholarly journals etc. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

To remove a role, tick this box. When you save your changes, the role will be removed.

General area(s) of scientific interest

You may select as many of the scientific interests listed as you wish. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

Detailed scientific research interests

Full details of your scientific interests should be added here. Some examples are given here. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

General interests

Details of other interests should be added here (e.g. 'sailing', 'walking'). (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

Information topics

The selections you make here will be used to target information that may be sent to you by the IUCr or, unless you have ticked the box asking us not to pass on your details, by other providers of commercial products and services to crystallographers. If you do not tick this box, the IUCr may from time to time pass your details on to other providers of relevant commercial products and services, but the IUCr will at no time pass your details on to organizations who are not in some way specifically related to crystallography.

This information will also be used to help ensure that any information sent to you is relevant and appropriate.

E-mail address(es)

Please provide the most general form of your e-mail address, rather than one that includes the name of the specific computer at which you work, and which may therefore become invalid if this changes.

If you have more than one e-mail address, click this button to specify which is your main address. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

Only your main e-mail address is made public by default as part of an entry in the World Directory of Crystallographers. If you have another address that you would like to use for receiving e-mail alerts, but that you would not like to be made public for use by other scientists in trying to contact you, then you may choose to make it private. (In that case, any comment or other information associated with that address will also be private.)

You may specify a preferred format (plain text or HTML) for receiving e-mails. This will be used, for instance, for any e-mail alerts sent to that address.

You may add a note to each e-mail address (e.g. 'Home address').

You may use any e-mail address you have registered for receiving e-mail alerts from Crystallography Journals Online. Currently you may choose to receive contents listings of new issues of any the seven IUCr journals as they are released as each issue is published, but in the future we hope to expand this service to offer other useful information for crystallographers. (If you have specified HTML as your preferred format for receiving e-mail, then you will be able to use the contents listings just by clicking on the links.)

To remove an address, tick this box. When you save your changes, the address will be removed.

Portrait image

You may upload a file in a format such as GIF or JPEG. It will automatically be scaled to the appropriate size and its resolution will be reduced so that the file is not too large. The best type of photograph to upload is a portrait image consisting of just your head (rather like a passport photograph), as anything else will probably be too small to be distinguished. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

Audio file

You may upload a short audio file associated with your registration information (for example giving the preferred pronunciation of your name). Currently, any audio file format will be accepted. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

IUCr ID and password

Your unique IUCr ID is assigned to you automatically when you register, and is your user name for all IUCr online services. (Public information if you choose inclusion in the World Directory of Crystallographers.)

When you register, you may choose your own password to go with your IUCr ID. It should ideally be more than eight characters in length, and consist of a mixture of letters and numbers. Should you forget your password in the future, you will be able to use the automatic password reminder form to obtain it again.

Diacritical marks and special characters

The user registration system will attempt to identify the character set you are using, and therefore correctly to accept the input of special characters and those with diacritical marks (accents). If there is any character that you wish to use that you cannot successfully input via your keyboard, then you may choose to put in an SGML entity for that character.

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