Month: September 2018

Create DOIs with the REST API

In last month’s overview of our current API landscape, we introduced the idea of our consolidated REST API, the one place to go to use all DataCite services. As part of this grand consolidation, we’re pleased to say that…

September 28th, 2018

Data sharing made easier: use Repository Finder to find the right repository for your data

More and more funders and publishers require research data to be made available in appropriate repositories, but determining which repository to choose or what counts as an “appropriate repository” can take up a lot of time. What is a researcher…

September 19th, 2018

COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics release 1

Crossposted from the COUNTER announcement from September 13, 2018. There is a need for the consistent and credible reporting of research data usage. Such usage metrics are required as an important component in understanding how publicly available research data…

September 18th, 2018

Taking discoverability to the next level: datasets with DataCite DOIs can now be found through Google Dataset Search

Discoverability of research data is a core component of the research data ecosystem. Making data findable has always been one of DataCite’s main goals, with DataCite Search providing a tool to search for all datasets with DataCite DOIs. Today…

September 5th, 2018

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