DataCite is an international

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organization which aims to improve ''

data citation Data publishing (also data publication) is the act of releasing research data in published form for use by others. It is a practice consisting in preparing certain data or data set(s) for public use thus to make them available to everyone to use a ...

'' 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.

Background

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 and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the British ...

; the Technical Information Center of Denmark (DTIC); the

TU Delft Library The TU Delft Library is the main library of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), located in Delft, Netherlands. It was designed by the Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo and built in 1997. It is the largest technical scientific library in t ...

from the Netherlands; the National Research Council’s

Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information The National Science Library (NSL), formerly known as the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information or CISTI, began in 1917 as the library of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). NRC is the Government of Canada's premier ...

(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 a ...

(University of California Curation Center - UC3);

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money ...

(USA); and the

German National Library of Science and Technology The German National Library of Science and Technology (german: Technische Informationsbibliothek), abbreviated TIB, is the national library of the Federal Republic of Germany for all fields of engineering, technology, and the natural sciences. I ...

(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 German National Library of Medicine (german: Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin), abbreviated ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences in Cologne, together with the Bonn site, is the central specialist library for medicine, public health ...

(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 coveri ...

; 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; they a ...

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 *Creator (PublicationYear): Title. Version. Publisher. ResourceType. Identifier DataCite recommends that DOI names are displayed as linkable, permanent URLs. 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 as well as ORCID's website and services to look up authors and their bibliographic ...

Members

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

National Research Council Canada The National Research Council Canada (NRC; french: Conseil national de recherches Canada) is the primary national agency of the Government of Canada dedicated to science and technology research & development. It is the largest federal research ...

- NRC-CNRC * China: **

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

- BGI * Denmark: **

Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ance ...

- DeiC * Estonia: **

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

(/UT) * Finland: **

CSC – IT Center for Science CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd. (also known as Finnish IT center for science) provides IT support and modeling, computing and information services for academia, research institutes and companies in Finland. It is owned by the Finnish state an ...

- CSC * France: **

Institut de l'information scientifique et technique The Institut de l'information scientifique et technique, or INIST ( en, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information) is the CNRS centre of documentation located in France. It has as mission to collect, treat and diffuse results of scientific ...

- INIST-CNRS * Germany: **

German National Library of Economics The National Library of Economics (ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics) is the world's largest research infrastructure for economic literature, online as well as offline. The ZBW is a member of the Leibniz Association and has been ...

- ZBW **

German National Library of Medicine German National Library of Medicine (german: Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin), abbreviated ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences in Cologne, together with the Bonn site, is the central specialist library for medicine, public health ...

- ZB MED **

- TIB ** Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences - GESIS **

Göttingen State and University Library The Göttingen State and University Library (german: Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen or SUB Göttingen) is the library for Göttingen University as well as for the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and is the state li ...

- 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 A conference is a meeting of two or more experts to discuss and exchange opinions or new information about a particular topic. Conferences can be used as a form of group decision-making, although discussion, not always decisions, are the main pu ...

- CRUI * Japan: ** Japan Link Center - JaLC * Netherlands: **

TU Delft Delft University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Delft), also known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. As of 2022 it is ranked by QS World University Rankings among ...

Library * Norway: ** BIBSYS * Republic of Korea: **

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Korea () is a government backed research institute in Daedeok Science Town in Daejeon, South Korea. Chronology See also *Korea University of Science and Technology The ...

- 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 a northwestern suburb of Gene ...

- European Organization for Nuclear Research **

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (colloquially) , former_name = eidgenössische polytechnische Schule , image = ETHZ.JPG , image_size = , established = , type = Public , budget = CHF 1.896 billion (2021) , rector = Günther Dissertori , president = Joël Mesot , a ...

- ETH * Thailand: **

National Research Council of Thailand National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, c ...

- NRCT * United Kingdom: **

The British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the British ...

- BL **

Digital Curation Centre The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) was established to help solve the extensive challenges of digital preservation and digital curation and to lead research, development, advice, and support services for higher education institutions in the Unite ...

* 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 umbrella organization for Harvard University's libraries and services. It is the oldest library system in the United States and both the largest academic library and largest private library in the world. Its collection ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

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

United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, ...

- 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 C ...

- USC

Other partners

In April 2017, DataCite was one of the founding partners in the

Initiative for Open Citations The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) is a project launched publicly in April 2017, that describes itself as: "a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of ...

.{{cite web, url=https://i4oc.org/press.html, title=Press, date=6 April 2017, publisher=Initiative for Open Citations, accessdate=6 April 2017

References

External links

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