Program Leader, Karen Visser, ANDS introduces general concepts (and explode a few myths along the way) about Data Citation, and then explores why Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are an integral part of effective research scholarly practices in this webinar recording. This is the first of the 2013 Data Citation webinar series and covered: - general information about research data citation and why scholarly practices around data citation are becoming of global importance - what are DOIs and what role do they play in data citation - what institutions need to consider when planning to implement DOIs - resources available on ANDS website and more about the rest of the 2013 Data Citation Webinar series... This video recording will be of interest to anyone thinking about enabling acknowledgement of research data -- researchers, librarians, data managers, research office, and others.