DataCite is thrilled to launch the Global Access Fund (GAF), established to enable organizations worldwide to make their research outputs discoverable.

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and DataCite are pleased to announce that PKP is now a DataCite Registered Service Provider. The PKP collaborates with scholarly publishing and infrastructure communities to develop and maintain Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Monograph Press (OMP), and Open Preprint Systems (OPS) publishing software.

Implementing FAIR Workflows: A Proof of Concept Study in the Field of Consciousness is a 3-year project funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. In this project, DataCite works with a number of partners on providing an exemplar workflow that researchers can use to implement FAIR practices throughout their research lifecycle. In this blog series, the different project participants share perspectives on FAIR practices and recommendations.

Hi everyone– I am very delighted to be a part of the DataCite team! I joined DataCite in early July 2023 as the Operations & 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.

DataCite is a fully remote organization with 22 team members across 11 countries. Once a year, we have the opportunity to meet in person at our annual team retreat. Last week, this annual retreat took place in Sintra, Portugal. For some of the team members, it was the first time to see colleagues face-to-face, while others were happy to meet again after last year’s team meeting.

Scott Edmunds is Editor-in-Chief at GigaScience Press, which has worked closely with DataCite since 2011, as part of the publisher’s commitment to open science and open data. Scott is a member of the Make Data Count advisory group and supports the initiative’s efforts to make it possible to evaluate the usage of data in the later steps of the data-sharing cycle, so that we can better assess the benefits of public sharing of data.

The Global Access Program (GAP) is DataCite’s initiative to improve access and enable communities in lesser-represented regions to further benefit from our open infrastructure services, launched with support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (Grant 2022-316573). Throughout the next year, the program builds out DataCite’s international community with regional support and engagement in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

DataCite is a global community that shares a common interest: to ensure that research outputs and resources are openly available and connected so that their reuse can advance knowledge across and between disciplines. As a community, we make research more effective with metadata that connects research outputs and resources–from samples and images to data and preprints.

Los identificadores persistentes están jugando un papel clave en impulsar una infraestructura de investigación más sólida e iniciativas de ciencia abierta en América Latina.

Persistent identifiers are playing a key role in driving more robust research infrastructure and open science initiatives across Latin America.

In the realm of scholarly publishing, the discipline metadata of outputs is of utmost importance. It is the backbone upon which works are discovered, indexed, and ultimately read. Without proper discipline metadata, outputs risk being lost in the vast sea of information in the scholarly landscape. However, despite the importance of discipline metadata, it can be a source of frustration for both authors and publishers.