DataCite

DataCite is a group of leading research libraries and technical information providers that established a partnership to improve access to research data on the Internet. The MoU was signed 2009-12-01 in the embassy of Germany in London.

Members:
 * German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)
 * British Library
 * Library of ETH Zurich
 * French Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST)
 * Technical Information Center of Denmark
 * Dutch TU Delft Library
 * Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI)
 * Australian National Data Service (ANDS)
 * California Digital Library (CDL)
 * Purdue University Libraries (PUL)

The goal of this cooperation is to establish a not-for-profit agency that enables organisations to register research datasets and assign persistent identifiers, so that research datasets can be handled as independent, citable, unique scientific objects (like crossref for data).

As a first step, this agency will build on an approach developed by TIB and promote the use of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) for datasets.

DataCite is a result of the project "Publication and Citation of Scientific Primary Data" (STD-DOI), which was funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG).

Link
http://www.datacite.org