Today we’re releasing a special follow-up to our successful DOI Fabrica 1.0 release earlier this month [@https://doi.org/10.5438/0yk5-b755]. That’s right, the DOI registration form is here! We know many of you have been waiting for this feature, and we’re pleased to say it has arrived. You can now enter the metadata for your DOI into individual form fields instead of uploading a metadata file.

We know that software is important in research, and some of us in the scholarly communications community, for example, in FORCE11, have been pushing the concept of software citation as a method to allow software developers and maintainers to get academic credit for their work: software releases are published and assigned DOIs, and software users then cite these releases when they publish research that uses the software.

DataCite is pleased to welcome Robin Dasler to our team. Robin joined DataCite as product manager in March. Get to know her better via this interview. Can you tell us a little bit about what you did before you started working for DataCite? I began my career as a science liaison librarian, mostly in the physical sciences and math, and I made the jump to data librarian roles once they came on the scene.

The DataCite team is pleased to announce the release of DOI Fabrica 1.0! DataCite Providers and Clients can check it out at https://doi.datacite.org. DOI Fabrica is the new web interface for DataCite DOI registration services. With DOI Fabrica, you can create and manage DOIs right from your browser without needing to use an API.

This blog post by guest author Aliaksandr Birukou was cross-posted from the Crossref blog. Aliaksandr Birukou is the Executive Editor for Computer Science at Springer Nature and is chair of the Project PID Group that has been working to establish a persistent identifier system and registry for scholarly conferences.

This blog post by Crossref Director of Member & Community Outreach Ginny Hendricks and guest authors Robert Kiley and Nina Frentrop from the Wellcome Trust was cross-posted with permission from the Crossref blog.

By offering detailed information on more than 2,000 research data repositories, re3data has become the most comprehensive source of reference for research data infrastructures globally. Through the development and advocacy of a framework for discipline-specific research data management, Science Europe is looking at the minimum requirements for research data repositories that can be used by funders and research organizations.

This blog post by Laure Haak, Ed Pentz and Trisha Cruse was cross-posted from the ORCID blog. On 22 January, ORCID, DataCite and Crossref co-hosted an Organization ID Stakeholders meeting. The meeting marked a transition from the work of the Organization ID Working Group to a formal launch of an Organization ID Registry Initiative.

DataCite is pleased to welcome Richard Hallett to our team. Richard joined DataCite as application developer in December. Get to know him better via this interview. Can you tell us a little bit about what you did before you started working for DataCite?

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.

Last month we launched DOI Fabrica, the modernized version of the DataCite Metadata Store (MDS) web frontend. It is the one place for DataCite providers and their clients to create, find, connect and track every single DOI from their organization. November has arrived and it has brought a new set of features and improvements to DOI Fabrica. We’re constantly improving DOI Fabrica to help your organization register and manage DOIs and metadata.