As a nonprofit membership association and open infrastructure provider for research organizations around the world, DataCite’s day-to-day operations and strategic directions are actively shaped by ongoing community engagement and input.  DataCite steering and working groups are one of the primary ways in which community members can get more involved in our work.

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Call for Applications for 2026 DataCite Steering and Working Groups

DataCite use cases around the world: Welcome to our blog series shining a spotlight on how research institutions integrate DataCite infrastructure into their systems and workflows. Join us as we explore real-world examples, best practices, and the impact of the DataCite community.

DataCite use cases around the world: Welcome to our blog series shining a spotlight on how research institutions integrate DataCite infrastructure into their systems and workflows.

DataCite Use Cases Around the World: The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal

Kelly Stathis

Hello from Vancouver, Canada! At the beginning of April, I joined DataCite as the Technical Community Manager. I am thrilled to be working with the DataCite team, and look forward to engaging further with the DataCite community in the coming months.  At DataCite, my role will lead adoption efforts and engage with the DataCite community on technical implementation.

Kelly joins DataCite as Technical Community Manager

Cody Ross

Hello from the northeastern United States! I joined DataCite at the beginning of March as an Application Support Engineer, and it’s been a pleasure to immerse myself in the community, technology, and culture at DataCite so far. Like Rorie Edmunds, I have been brought on to support the partnership between DataCite and IGSN.

Welcome Cody!

Matt Buys

Last month I shared our Vision 2021 that puts into action the goals set out in our strategic plan. In this post I want to share about our strategic visioning activity that we will collectively embark on as a community. As a community we are driven by our mission and vision: Our Vision: Connecting research, identifying knowledge. Our Mission: DataCite’s mission is to be the world’s leading provider of persistent identifiers for research.

What is next? Launching our Strategic Visioning Process

Liz Krznarich

DataCite Open Hours are an opportunity for anyone in the community to hear the latest updates, ask questions and engage with DataCite staff and other community members. Sometimes there’s even a festive pub quiz! Open Hours also provides an informal, interactive forum to learn from and share with the DataCite community and gather feedback for our roadmap, which is essential to our mission.

Open hours updates: Spring re-launch &amp; open hours for consortium leads

The DataCite team traveled to Brisbane for the International Data Week 2025, the leading international conference on research data. It is jointly organised by the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA). It was a great opportunity to connect with familiar and new faces.

The DataCite team traveled to Brisbane for International Data Week (IDW) 2025, the leading international conference on research data. It is jointly organised by the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA), the World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA). It was a great opportunity to connect with familiar and new faces.

Connecting in Brisbane: Reflections on International Data Week from the DataCite Community Team

University of California Office of the President

John Chodacki

Following the announcement of Trisha Cruse’s retirement, DataCite has started its search for a dynamic, committed, and entrepreneurial Executive Director to build on our exceptional record of providing first-class services to the research community. DataCite was founded in 2009 and celebrates its 10 year anniversary this year. DataCite has seen tremendous growth during these 10 years, in terms of members, services, and staff.

Job announcement: DataCite is looking for an Executive Director

Martin Fenner

Two weeks ago DataCite announced the pre-release version of a GraphQL API [@https://doi.org/10.5438/qab1-n315]. GraphQL simplifies complex queries that for example want to retrieve information about the authors, funding and data citations for a dataset with a DataCite DOI.

Using Jupyter Notebooks with GraphQL and the PID Graph

Mekelle University (MU), founded in 2000 and located in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, is a research-intensive institution dedicated to advancing knowledge, economic growth, and social welfare both nationally and internationally. As a founding member of the Ethiopian Research Universities Forum in 2025, MU is committed to elevating the visibility and impact of Ethiopian research on the global stage.

DataCite Staff

Advancing Research Through DataCite’s Global Access Fund: Mekelle University, Ethiopia

Cas d’utilisation de DataCite dans le monde : Bienvenue dans notre série de blogs qui met en lumière comment les institutions de recherche intègrent l’infrastructure de DataCite dans leurs systèmes et flux de travail. Rejoignez-nous pour explorer des exemples concrets, des meilleures pratiques et l’impact de la communauté DataCite.

Cas d’utilisation de DataCite dans le monde: Bienvenue dans notre série de blogs qui met en lumière comment les institutions de recherche intègrent l’infrastructure de DataCite dans leurs systèmes et flux de travail.

Cas d&#8217;utilisation de DataCite dans le monde: Centre national pour la recherche scientifique et technique (CNRST), Maroc

Trisha Cruse

Ed Pentz

Laure Haak

Over the past couple of years, a group of organizations with a shared purpose – California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID – invested our time and energy into launching the Org ID initiative, with the goal of defining requirements for an open, community-led organization identifier registry. The goal of our initiative has been to offer a transparent, accessible process that builds a better system for all of our communities.

Org ID: a recap and a hint of things to come

Daniella Lowenberg

This blog post by Daniella Lowenberg was cross-posted from the Make Data Count blog.

The Make Data Count (MDC) project is moving ahead with full force and the team wanted to take a moment to update the research stakeholder community on our project resources and roadmap. In September, the MDC team sat down and mapped out the project plan for our two-year grant.

Make Data Count Update: November, 2017

As DataCite’s Technical Director I am very excited to announce that DataCite is looking for another application developer to strengthen our team. This is an opportunity to work on interesting development work around scholarly infrastructure with a focus on research data. You would join a small technical team of one application developer based in Berlin and me based in Hannover, also in Germany.

DataCite is Hiring another Application Developer

As a growing global community of 202 members across 42 countries, this year we hosted the Business Meeting of the General Assembly virtually to include as many members of our community as possible. The meeting focused on approving the budget, approving the next steps on the business model, and the Executive Board elections. Along with DataCite’s members, the Executive Board is the governing body of the association.

2020 Executive Board Elections

Today DataCite launches a new API that powers the PID Graph, the graph formed by scholarly resources described by persistent identifiers (PIDs) and the connections between them. The API is powered by GraphQL, a widely adopted Open Source technology that enables queries of this graph, addressing use cases of our community in ways that were not possible before.

Powering the PID Graph: announcing the DataCite GraphQL API

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The post <a href="https://datacite.org/blog/data-repository-selection-which-criteria-matter/">Data Repository Selection: Which Criteria Matter?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://datacite.org">DataCite</a>.

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Data Repository Selection: Which Criteria Matter?

CSV in many ways is for data what Markdown is for text documents: a very simple format that is both human- and machine-readable, and that – despite a number of shortcomings – is widely used. Given the popularity of Markdown for writing blog posts, using CSV to publish blog posts with tabular data should be an obvious thing to do, and we have just published our first blog post using CSV data.

Publishing tabular data as blog post

Laura Rueda

On May 17, 2016, DataCite continued our monthly webinar series with Sebastian Karcher, Associate Director of the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) at Syracuse University, presenting on Zotero for data repositories. Sebastian is an expert in scholarly referencing and citation workflows and has been a longtime contributor to the Citation Style Language as well as Zotero, the open source reference management software.

Zotero for Data Repositories Webinar

Data citation is core to DataCite’s mission and DataCite is involved in several projects that try to facilitate data citation, including THOR, Data Citation Implementation Pilot (DCIP), Research Data Alliance (RDA), and COPDESS. The biggest roadblock for wider data citation adoption might be insufficient incentives for individual researchers, but another major challenge is that implementing data citation is still too complicated.

Data catalog cards: simplifying article/data linking

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Heinz Pampel

re3data.org has reached a milestone of identifying and listing 1,500 research data repositories, making it the largest and most comprehensive registry of data repositories available on the web. It has grown steadily since its launch four years ago to cover a wide range of disciplines from around the world. In other news, badges are now available for repositories to acknowledge and link to their listings in re3data.org.

re3data.org Reaches a Milestone and Begins Offering Badges

As we have talked about before, the DataCite Metadata Working Group has prepared a DataCite to Dublin Core application profile (DC2AP) and an ontology (DC2RDF) and is currently running a public review to become a DCMI Community Specification. Two weeks ago, DataCite organised a webinar to discuss the first round of feedback received.

DC2AP and DC2RDF Webinar

Michael Witt

We are pleased to announce the publication of version 3.0 of the “Metadata Schema for the Description of Research Data Repositories” [@https://doi.org/10.2312/RE3.008].  This updated version of the re3data.org schema incorporates feedback from users as well as changes in registry policies and structural adjustments to the schema designed to better reflect changes in the landscape of research data repositories.

New re3data.org Schema and Search Functionality

Last Monday, DataCite organized the first in a series of t webinars were we will be sharing our latest developments, new services, collaborations with different organizations and best practices to get the most out of persistent identifiers and data publication. Our hope is to connect with the DataCite community to bring everyone up to date and gather feedback on our work.

DataCite Profiles and ORCID Auto-Update webinar

In a blog post four weeks ago DataCite Executive Director Matt Buys talked about the DataCite strategic priorities for 2020 [@https://doi.org/10.5438/9j86-bv91]. In this post we want to talk a bit more about the strategic priorities for this year we have regarding services and infrastructure work: a) consolidation of our services and infrastructure, and b) stronger emphasis on member-driven product development.

2020 Strategic Priorities for Services and Infrastructure

Recently I was at a conference and a fellow conference-goer saw on my name badge that that I worked for DataCite and they stepped back and said, “

 Wow, DataCite must be a very exciting place to be right now.

” I agree. It is very exciting and I am thrilled to be DataCite’s new Executive Director. Over the past year DataCite has seen an enormous uptake in the use of our services.

DataCite Is an Exciting Place to Be

When we launched the new version of the OAI-PMH service in November (@https://doi.org/10.5438/ppth-pz62), and retired Solr (used by the old OAI-PMH service) in December, we completed the transition to Elasticsearch as our search index, and the REST API as our main API.

Announcing the new Member API

As a community organization, it is important that we have the opportunity to meet regularly to engage in open dialog about DataCite related matters. I have really enjoyed meeting with many of you over the past month and gaining a better understanding of what DataCite can do for you. The staff and I are always available for calls or meetings whenever you have questions or suggestions.

Announcing DataCite’s 2020 member meetings

Helena Cousijn

We’re delighted to announce a joint effort between DataCite and FAIRsharing to improve, in collaboration with several leading publishers, the criteria used by journal publishers for the recommendation of research data repositories for the benefit of the broader research community.

MoU between DataCite and FAIRsharing: improving criteria for the recommendation of data repositories

Metadata Game Changers

Ted Habermann

This is a guest blog post written by Ted Habermann. In this blog post, Dr Habermann introduces the MetaDIG project and how the project recommendations can be applied to DataCite metadata.

Since Wilkinson et al. (@https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18) introduced the FAIR Principles, discussions and implementation guidelines have been published in almost every possible context.

MetaDIG recommendations for FAIR DataCite metadata

Earlier this year, we announced the retirement of our Executive Director, Trisha Cruse. After an extensive search, led by DataCite’s Executive Board, we are proud to announce that Matt Buys will join DataCite as Executive Director beginning October 14, 2019. Matt comes to us from ORCID and brings experience in leading global teams and scaling persistent identifier infrastructure to share information on a global scale.

DataCite welcomes Matt Buys as Executive Director

Maria Gould

Ginny Hendricks

Alice Meadows

The official countdown to PIDapalooza 2020 begins here! It’s 162 days to go until our flame-lighting opening ceremony at the fabulous Belem Cultural Center in Lisbon, Portugal. Your friendly neighborhood PIDapalooza Planning Committee—Helena Cousijn (DataCite), Maria Gould (CDL), Stephanie Harley (ORCID), Ginny Hendricks (Crossref) and Alice Meadows (ORCID) — are already hard at work making sure it’s the best one so far!

We’ll be rocking your world again at PIDapalooza 2020

Mary Hirsch

As a membership organization we take our community engagement activities very seriously. We jump at the chance to interact with our members, whether it be at conferences, steering group meetings, our general assembly, or during DataCite Open Hours.

A Lens on DataCite Open Hours

It is with mixed feelings that I announce that our Executive Director, Trisha Cruse, plans to retire later this year. I’m sad that Trisha will be leaving us, grateful for all the work Trisha has done for DataCite, but also happy that our friend and colleague will be able to take on new life adventures.  As many of you will know, Trisha has been with DataCite from day one. Trisha was there when on December 1, 2009 DataCite was founded in London.

DOIs, Data, and Dedication: DataCite ED Trisha Cruse retires

Sarala Wimalaratne

DataCite is excited to announce that Sarala Wimalaratne will join our team in the new role ‘Head of Infrastructure Services’ on September 1st. Sarala brings a wealth of experience in the Open Science and PID communities and will be a great addition to our team. Get to know her better via this interview. 1. Can you tell us a little bit about what you did before you will start working for DataCite?

Please welcome Sarala, our new Head of Infrastructure Services

As of January 1, 2025, DataCite Members and Consortium Organizations will be required to use Schema 4 to register DOIs and update DOI metadata. Widespread adoption of Schema 4 is critical to improve DOI metadata quality. This is because Schema 4—i.e., versions 4.0 through 4.4 and subsequent minor versions—improves on Schema 3 with additions that promote metadata quality and consistency.

As of January 1, 2025, DataCite Members and Consortium Organizations will be required to use

 Schema 4



to register DOIs and update DOI metadata. Widespread adoption of Schema 4 is critical to improve DOI metadata quality. This is because Schema 4—i.e., versions 4.0 through 4.4 and subsequent minor versions—improves on Schema 3 with additions that promote metadata quality and consistency.

Deprecating Schema 3

Robin Dasler

Madeleine de Smaele

The DataCite Metadata Schema is the basis for the metadata you submit to DataCite. It tells you the available fields and structure for your metadata records. Many of our members have told us that they’d really like to be able to include affiliation information in their metadata in a more structured way. The launch of ROR earlier this year provides a great step towards addressing structured capturing of affiliation information.

Identify your affiliation with Metadata Schema 4.3

When we launched the DOI registration form in DOI Fabrica last year, we purposely kept it pretty basic. We wanted to get the most-used metadata fields in front of the people who needed them as soon as possible. But it’s always been our intention to expand the form and make it more useful for more metadata needs for more people. Today we’re announcing a new and improved DOI Fabrica form that takes a step in that direction. What has changed?

DOI Fabrica Form Gets a Facelift

The FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group has published the results of its review of existing community practices, using a consolidated set of Software Citation Principles [@https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.86] to encourage the adoption of software citation across disciplines. Supporting citation is part of DataCite’s core mission and this extends to software citation.

Software Citation Principles

DataCite and OpenAlex have launched a new integration to amplify the discoverability and impact of open research, with over 92 million DataCite DOIs now available in OpenAlex. DataCite member organizations that register DOIs will now see their research outputs and resources indexed in OpenAlex.

DataCite Metadata Is Now Integrated in OpenAlex

DOI content negotiation is one of the oldest DataCite services, launched in 2012. Content negotiation makes it easy to fetch DataCite metadata in other metadata formats, for example

 BibTeX

or

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, or as formatted citation in one of more than 5,000 citation styles.

Upcoming Changes to DOI Content Negotiation

Swinburne University of Technology

Amir Aryani

This post has been cross-posted from the FREYA blog.

Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are not only important to uniquely identify a publication, dataset, or person, but the metadata for these persistent identifiers can provide unambiguous linking between persistent identifiers of the same type, e.g. journal articles citing other journal articles, or of different types, e.g. linking a researcher and the datasets they produced.

Introducing the PID Graph

What has hundreds of heads, 91,000 affiliations, and roars like a lion? If you guessed the Research Organization Registry community, you’d be absolutely right! Last month was a big and busy one for the ROR project team: we released a working API and search interface for the registry, we held our first ROR community meeting, and we showcased the initial prototypes at PIDapalooza in Dublin.

Hear us ROR! Announcing our first prototype and next steps

Hi everyone– I am very delighted to be a part of the DataCite team! I joined DataCite in early July 2023 as the Operations &amp; HR Manager. I am excited for this new opportunity and to be able to collaborate with such a great team of people. My responsibilities in this role will include supporting the daily operations of the organization as well as creating and maintaining HR policies and procedures.

Hi everyone – I am very delighted to be a part of the DataCite team! I joined DataCite in early July 2023 as the Operations &amp; HR Manager. I am excited for this new opportunity and to be able to collaborate with such a great team of people. My responsibilities in this role will include supporting the daily operations of the organization as well as creating and maintaining HR policies and procedures.

Welcome Sydney, Operations and HR Manager

DataCite is pleased to announce our newest service. The link checker is here! Many of you have asked for an automated link checking service to help you maintain your DOI records, and it’s now out of the box and ready for Members to use.  The link checker is a custom-built crawler (based on the popular open-source tool Scrapy) that works its way through one DOI per DataCite Client per day and attempts to follow the URL registered in the metadata.

Link checker is here

This blog post was cross-posted from the Make Data Count blog.

With Make Data Count now in its second year, the focus is shifting from building infrastructure to driving adoption of our open data-level metrics infrastructure.

Make Data Count and Scholix join FORCE(2018)s

Kristian Garza

For the past several years data citation has been an important topic in the research community. The community came together and agreed that data must be granted first-class citizenship in the practice of scholarship. Thus the community defined a set of guiding principles for data within scholarly literature. This is known as the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (JDDCP)[@https://doi.org/10.25490/a97f-egyk], published in 2014.

Glad You Asked: A Snapshot of the Current State of Data Citation

Over the next several months DataCite will embark on a new development path focusing on member-facing services. Our goal is to provide easy, understandable, predictable, and robust services to create, manage, find, use and track DataCite DOIs to make data sharing and citation easier. Our activities are not limited to technical development but will include support services that will foster the successful use of all our services.

Development Roadmap

At the end of October 2016, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID reported on collaboration in the area of organization identifiers [@https://doi.org/10.5438/TNHX-54CG]. We issued three papers [@https://doi.org/10.5438/2906;@https://doi.org/10.5438/4716;@https://doi.org/10.5438/7885] for community comment and after input we subsequently announced the formation of The OI Project, along with a call for expressions of interest from people interested in

The OI Project gets underway planning an Open Organization Identifier Registry

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) was founded in 1855 as the first hospital in the United States dedicated to the healthcare of children. It has a tradition of research that has spanned nearly a century. The research breakthroughs at CHOP have improved the lives of countless children throughout the world. A new scientific center at CHOP aims to harness and broadly share biomedical information to more quickly benefit patients.

Welcoming Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to the community!

DataCite is delighted to welcome the Tsinghua University Library to the DataCite community! The Tsinghua University Library supports the University’s mission of education and research. It engages with the ongoing environment to deliver world-class physical and digital content and services critical to research, education, and outreach, contributes to discover, preserve, and disseminate knowledge and creative expression worldwide.

The Tsinghua University Library joins DataCite

One of the key factors in making research outputs discoverable is assigning unique, persistent identifiers (PIDs) along with rich metadata.  DataCite provides services to register Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), which provide a persistent way of identifying and accessing a particular resource.

One of the key factors in making research outputs discoverable is assigning unique, persistent identifiers (PIDs) along with rich metadata. DataCite provides services to register Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), which provide a persistent way of identifying and accessing a particular resource.

Connecting the Dots with DataCite DOI Metadata

In 2020, the DataCite General Assembly approved the introduction of consortium membership, where a group of like-minded organizations come together to collectively participate in DataCite’s community and governance activities and use DataCite’s DOI services.

In 2020, the DataCite General Assembly approved the introduction of Consortium membership, where a group of like-minded organizations come together to collectively participate in DataCite’s community and governance activities and use DataCite’s DOI services.

Policy for Consortium Organizations Registering More Than 10.000 DOIs

zbMATH: A Backbone of Mathematical Research Imagine having a super-powered map that connects every important idea, tool, and discovery in mathematics — that’s what

 zbMATH

, and its incorporated platforms such as

 swMATH

, a specific portal for mathematical research software, do. These platforms are like the ultimate librarians of math research, gathering and organizing knowledge from academic papers, software,

Mapping Mathematics &#8211; Integrating zbMATH Open and the PID Graph

DataCite Metadata: Connecting Research to Advance Knowledge   For stakeholder communities around the world, DataCite offers a trusted home for research organizations and their communities to contribute, connect, and retrieve key metadata about outputs, resources, and activities.

Cultivating a Thriving Metadata Ecosystem: Advancing Technical and Community-Driven Strategies for Improvements and Enrichments

The National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) is an inter-university research institute based in Japan. NIFS promotes academic collaborative research and also strives to meet the expectations of the industrial sector, which is beginning to engage with fusion energy development, as well as students, including those pursuing recurrent education.

Scaling for Impact: How NIFS and DataCite Are Advancing Global Discoverability of Japanese Research

Members are the heart of the DataCite community. Comprising 1600+ research organizations from 60+ countries, members join DataCite to use our infrastructure and services, participate in our governance, and contribute to shared communities of practice. In this post, we wanted to welcome the new organizations that have joined DataCite in the first half of 2025, and highlight a few of their stories.

DataCite Membership in 2025: An Update on Our Global Community and Spotlight on Use Cases in Croatia, Qatar, and the United States

In Côte d’Ivoire, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research began implementing open science before the signing of the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science.

Advancing Research Through DataCite’s Global Access Fund: Université Virtuelle de Côte d’Ivoire

This month, a quiet yet momentous event occurred in DataCite infrastructure: the registration of our 100 millionth DOI.  100 million is a huge number. And it says a lot about global adoption of DataCite and the scale of our community and infrastructure.  But the bigger story behind this exciting headline is about what this number represents. So we are marking the milestone with a few reflections about its broader significance.

This month, a quiet yet momentous event occurred in DataCite infrastructure: the registration of our 100 millionth DOI.   100 million is a huge number. And it says a lot about global adoption of DataCite and the scale of our community and infrastructure.   But the bigger story behind this exciting headline is about what this number represents. So we are marking the milestone with a few reflections about its broader significance: 1.

100 Million DataCite DOIs: More than Just a Number

The Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) and the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) have partnered to advance open science and research data management in the region. Through support from DataCite’s Global Access Fund (GAF), this collaboration focuses on building the technical infrastructure needed to support experimental data in line with the FAIR principles.

Advancing Research Sharing Through DataCite’s Global Access Fund: ASREN-SESAME

In the digital era, making research easily discoverable and accessible cannot be overstated. In this context, the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system has emerged as a global persistent identifiers (PIDs) standard for identifying and linking digital content. However, many institutions in Tunisia, as well as institutions in other developing countries, have been slow to adopt this system due to various challenges.

Advancing Research Sharing Through DataCite’s Global Access Fund: University National Center of Scientific and Technical Documentation (CNUDST), Tunisia

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.

2025 DataCite Board Elections: Strengthening Global Representation and Governance

With support from DataCite’s Global Access Fund (GAF) in 2024, Eko-Konnect Research and Education Initiative launched a pilot project aimed at enhancing the digital preservation of Nigerian cultural artefacts and expanding the use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) in the country’s research and heritage sectors.

Advancing Research Through DataCite’s Global Access Fund: Eko-Konnect Research and Education Initiative

The National University of Rosario (UNR) in Argentina has long been committed to principles of Open Science and public access to knowledge.

Advancing Open Science with Persistent Identifiers: Collaboration and Capacity-Building at the National University of Rosario

We are honored to announce that John Chodacki (University of California Office of the President) has been awarded the DataCite Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his extraordinary leadership and dedication to advancing open research and strengthening global research infrastructure.

Celebrating Outstanding Leadership: John Chodacki Receives DataCite’s Distinguished Service Award

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.

Connecting Communities Through Open Infrastructure

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

Advancing Research Sharing Through DataCite’s Global Access Fund: Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Indonesia

The Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium (ZULC) recently concluded a comprehensive outreach programme, funded by the Global Access Fund. The programme was aimed at raising awareness of persistent identifiers (PIDs) among Zimbabwean higher education institutions.

Advancing Research Through DataCite’s Global Access Fund: Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium (ZULC), Zimbabwe

The last weeks have been very busy, engaging with the DataCite community across the world. On 4 November, we hosted DataCite Connect in Livingstone, Zambia in collaboration with 27th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2024). This was our first event hosted in Africa and we welcomed 60 participants from countries including Zambia, Botswana, India, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

The last weeks have been very busy, engaging with the DataCite community across the world. Today I’m thrilled to share the outcome of our DataCite Connect events.

From Zambia to Costa Rica: Building Bridges Through DataCite Connect

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.

DataCite Team Retreat 2025 – Philosophy, Persistence, and the Power of Trust

As 2024 comes to a close, we reflect on a year marked by milestones, progress, and the ever-deepening collaboration with our global community. This year, we celebrated 15 years of DataCite, a journey built on the collective dedication of members, partners, and stakeholders who share our vision of a connected and equitable research ecosystem.

Reflecting on 2024: Celebrating Collaboration and Charting the Future

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.

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.

Advancing Research Through DataCite’s Global Access Fund: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico

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.

Advancing Research Sharing Through DataCite’s Global Access Fund: INFLIBNET Centre, India

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.

Fomento de la investigación a través del Fondo de Acceso Global de DataCite: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, México

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.

72 Million DOIs Ready for Analysis: Our Latest Public Data File

The DataCite Ambassador Program was officially launched in late 2023 to expand our engagement with communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. This initiative creates a network of dedicated volunteers that raise awareness, increase adoption, foster collaboration, and promote best practices among local communities in countries and regions where awareness of persistent identifier (PID) infrastructure is still low.

Bridging Gaps, Empowering Communities: Meet the DataCite 2024 Ambassadors!

In 2023, we launched the DataCite Global Access Fund (GAF), supported by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, to help organizations worldwide make their research outputs discoverable and connect to global open infrastructure. Today, we are excited to announce the second cohort of organizations and projects receiving GAF funding!

Celebrating the Second Cohort of DataCite Global Access Fund Awardees!

We are pleased to announce the election of Jamie Wittenberg as DataCite’s new Board President, effective January 1, 2025. Jamie currently serves as Assistant Dean for Research &amp; Innovation Strategies at the University of Colorado Boulder in the USA. She brings a wealth of experience and leadership to this role, having been an active member of the DataCite Board for several years.

Jamie Wittenberg DataCite’s New Board President

Collaborative research projects often involve teams of researchers from different institutes, and each research stage—from the planning, the piloting, the data collection, analysis, writing, and revision—produces outputs that embody rich details of the research work that are essential for reproducibility and reuse.

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