Welcome Helena Cousijn – DataCite’s Director of Community Engagement and Communications

We’re pleased to announce that Helena Cousijn has joined our team, bringing a wealth of experience and knowledge to her position as DataCite’s Director of Community Engagement and Communications. Prior to joining DataCite, Helena worked as Senior Product Manager for Research Data Management solutions at Elsevier where she was responsible for developing research data related […]

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DataCite’s Distinguished Service Award: Recognizing Joan Starr’s Many Contributions

Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager, California Digital Library has been an important part of DataCite’s success from the beginning. Joan has made a difference with her guidance, passion, voice, knowledge — all of which has helped so many in the DataCite community. DataCite awarded Joan the Distinguished Service Award at the spring General Assembly in […]

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

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 […]

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