DataCite, an international initiative to facilitate access to research data, has announced that leading research libraries and information centres recently converged for the first official members’ convention in Paris.
The inclusion of five new members was approved in the offices of the International Council for Science (ICSU). The new members are: Australian National Data Service (ANDS), German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED), GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST) and Library of the ETH Zurich. There are now 12 institutions from 9 countries under DataCite's umbrella who aim to safeguard common standards worldwide in respect of research data, thereby facilitating compliance with the rules of good scientific practice.
DataCite provides a mechanism to register research datasets and issue unique Digital Object Identifiers (DOI names) to them. As an official DOI registration agency, DataCite is a member of the International DOI Foundation (IDF).
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