DataCite is an international

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organization which aims to improve '' data citation'' in order to: *establish easier access to research data on the Internet *increase acceptance of research data as legitimate, citable contributions to the scholarly record *support data archiving that will permit results to be verified and re-purposed for future study.

History

In August 2009 a paper was published laying out an approach for a global registration agency for research data. DataCite was subsequently founded in London on 1 December 2009 by organisations from 6 countries: the

British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is one of the largest libraries in the world, with an estimated collection of between 170 and 200 million items from multiple countries. As a legal deposit li ...

; the Technical Information Center of Denmark (DTIC); the TU Delft Library from the Netherlands; the National Research Council’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI); the

California Digital Library The California Digital Library (CDL) was founded by the University of California in 1997. Under the leadership of then UC President Richard C. Atkinson, the CDL's original mission was to forge a better system for scholarly information management ...

(University of California Curation Center - UC3);

Purdue University Purdue University is a Public university#United States, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded ...

(USA); and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB). After the founding of DataCite, leading research libraries and information centres converged for the first official members’ convention in Paris on 5 February 2010. The inclusion of five further members was approved in the office of the International Council for Science (ICSU): Australian National Data Service (ANDS); Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (ZB MED);

GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences The GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is the largest German infrastructure institute for the social sciences. It is headquartered in Mannheim, with a location in Cologne. With basic research-based services and consulting coverin ...

; French Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST); and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich.

Technical

The primary means of establishing easier access to research data is by DataCite members assigning persistent identifiers, such as

digital object identifier A digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify various objects, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). DOIs are an implementation of the Handle System; th ...

s (DOIs), to data sets. Although currently leveraging the well-established DOI infrastructure, DataCite takes an open approach to identifiers, and considers other systems and services that help forward its objectives. DataCite's recommended format for a data citation is: *Creator (PublicationYear): Title. Publisher. Identifier Or alternatively: *Creator (PublicationYear): Title. Version. Publisher. ResourceType. Identifier DataCite recommends that DOI names are displayed as linkable, permanent URLs. DataCite's metadata, which follows the RDF model, can include information about a data resource's subject, funder, an accompanying abstract, and other information. For contributors to a dataset, one can indicate whether they are a researcher, data collector, data manager, editor, translator, producer, sponsor, or several other roles. Third-party tools allow the migration of content to and from other services, such as ODIN for

ORCID The ORCID (; Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication. This addresses the problem that a particular author's contributions to the scien ...

Members

Source: * Australia: ** Australian National Data Service - ANDS * Canada: **

National Research Council Canada The National Research Council Canada (NRC; ) is the primary national agency of the Government of Canada dedicated to science and technology research and development. It is the largest federal research and development organization in Canada. Th ...

- NRC-CNRC * China: **

Beijing Genomics Institute BGI Group, formerly Beijing Genomics Institute, is a Chinese genomics company with headquarters in Yantian, Shenzhen, Yantian, Shenzhen. The company was originally formed in 1999 as a genetics research center to participate in the Human Genome Pro ...

- BGI * Denmark: ** Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation - DeiC * Estonia: **

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; ; ) is a public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is also the largest and oldest university in the country.

(/UT) * Finland: ** CSC – IT Center for Science - CSC * France: ** Institut de l'information scientifique et technique - INIST-CNRS * Germany: ** German National Library of Economics - ZBW ** German National Library of Medicine - ZB MED ** German National Library of Science and Technology - TIB ** Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences - GESIS ** Göttingen State and University Library - SUB ** Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen - GWDG * Hungary: ** Library and Information Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences - MTA KIK * International: ** ICSU World Data System - ICSU-WDS * Italy: ** Conference of Italian University Rectors - CRUI * Japan: **

Japan Link Center Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in t ...

- JaLC * Netherlands: ** TU Delft Library * Norway: ** BIBSYS * Republic of Korea: **

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI; ) is a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT of South Korea. Established in 1962 and headquartered in Daedeok Science Town, Daejeon. KISTI ...

- KISTI * Russia ** Cyberleninka *
Russian Agency for Digital Standardization
* South Africa: ** South African Environmental Observation Network - SAEON * Sweden: ** Swedish National Data Service - SND * Switzerland: **

CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, western suburb of Gene ...

- European Organization for Nuclear Research ** Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich - ETH * Thailand: ** National Research Council of Thailand - NRCT * United Kingdom: **

The British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is one of the largest libraries in the world, with an estimated collection of between 170 and 200 million items from multiple countries. As a legal deposit li ...

- BL ** Digital Curation Centre * United States: **

- CDL ** Office of Scientific and Technical Information, US Department of Energy - OSTI ** Purdue University Libraries - PUL ** Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research - ICPSR **

Harvard University Library Harvard Library is the network of libraries and services at Harvard University, a private Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Library is the oldest library system in the United States and both the largest academic librar ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE has a corporate office ...

- IEEE ** Open Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models - KIM **

United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on Mar ...

- USGS **

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...

- USC

Other partners

In April 2017, DataCite was one of the founding partners in the Initiative for Open Citations. In January 2023, DataCite announced a partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to develop an Open Global Data Citation Corpus. {{cite journal , last1 = Vierkant , first1 = Paul , title = Wellcome Trust and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative partner with DataCite to build the Open Global Data Citation Corpus , date = 17 January 2023 , journal = DataCite Blog , doi = 10.5438/vjz9-kx84 , url = https://blog.datacite.org/data-citation-corpus-announcement-2023/ , access-date = 2023-01-17

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