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 DOI creation is now available as part of the REST API. We’re calling on all interested […]
Month: September 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 to do? Last year the American Geophysical Union (AGU) convened representatives of the international Earth, […]
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 are being reused. To address this need, COUNTER and members of the Make Data Count team […]
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 the discoverability of datasets was taken to the next level with the launch of Google Dataset […]