About DataCite

DataCite is a leading global non-profit organisation that provides Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for research data and other research outputs. Organizations within the research community join DataCite as members to be able to assign DOIs to all their research outputs. This way, their outputs become discoverable and associated metadata is made available to the community.

Scholarly research is producing ever-increasing amounts of digital research data and it depends on data to verify research findings, create new research, and share findings. Taking a persistent approach to access, identification, sharing, and re-use of datasets, DataCite was founded in late 2009 with these three fundamental goals:

• establish easier access to scientific research data on the Internet,

• increase acceptance of research data as legitimate, citable contributions to the scientific record, and

• support data archiving that will permit results to be verified and re-purposed for future study.

More information is available on the DataCite website and on the DataCite support site.

DataCite Community Participation

The Metadata Working Group would like to acknowledge the contributions to our work of many colleagues in our institutions who provided assistance of all kinds. Their help has been greatly appreciated. In addition, we are indebted to numerous individuals and organisations in the broader scholarly community who have taken an interest in this work. Because data citation and data management are evolving areas of interest, we look forward to continued feedback and participation.