Stories from DataCite’s Global Access Fund Awardees Interested to learn how institutions around the world are connecting research through open infrastructure? On 24 April 2025, we hosted a webinar featuring three Global Access Fund (GAF) Awardees and their journeys in making research outputs more visible and impactful. Whether you missed the event or want to revisit the highlights, this blog summarizes the insights shared by our speakers.

We are pleased to share the results of the 2025 DataCite Board Elections, confirmed during the recent Business Meeting of the General Assembly. These elections reflect our community’s commitment to global representation and strong governance as we continue to grow and evolve as an open infrastructure organization serving 1600+ research organizations around the world.

As part of a funded project supported by the DataCite Global Access Fund (GAF), the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) has advanced an innovative research initiative to preserve cultural heritage through motion capture (mocap) technology and persistent identifiers (PIDs) Aligned with DataCite’s vision to make research more discoverable, accessible, and reusable, the initiative leverages mocap technology to preserve digitally and globally

The global DataCite community is supported by a fully remote team of 21 members, located in 12 countries and speaking more than 20 languages. Once a year, the team meets somewhere in the world to interact in person, remind one another that we are humans rather than 2-D images on screens, and brainstorm topics of current and strategic importance.

In 2024, thanks to the DataCite Global Access Fund, the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Mexico) developed a project to promote open science. In this blog, we tell you about the development of the project and its results.

En 2024, gracias al Fondo de Acceso Global de DataCite, la Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (México) desarrolló un proyecto de promoción de la ciencia abierta. En este blog te contamos sobre el desarrollo del proyecto y sus resultados.

The Amazon region is crucial for climate balance and biodiversity preservation. DataMap/Amazon, an initiative of the Center for Sustainable Amazon Studies at the University of São Paulo (USP), promotes the production and dissemination of science for the sustainable development of the Amazon.

Indian researchers and institutions are increasingly embracing Open Science, recognizing its value in enhancing collaboration and reproducibility. However, many still hesitate to share their work openly due to challenges such as limited awareness of open research benefits, insufficient institutional support, and inadequate infrastructure.

As a community-driven organization, we engage community inputs in multiple ways, and one of those ways is our annual member survey.

Since 2018, and as part of the global movement towards open science and knowledge as a public good, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) has been working to promote norms and practices of social science research data management (RDM) and sharing among social scientists, information specialists, and research institutions in the Arab region.

The DataCite Metadata Store is a rich source of information and insights about research outputs, resources, and activities. Discovery systems and services worldwide rely on this metadata to build and enhance their platforms and workflows, forming critical pieces of scholarly infrastructure.