DataCite is a leading global non-profit organization that provides persistent identifiers (DOIs) for research data and other research outputs. Organizations within the research community join DataCite as members to be able to assign DOIs to all their research outputs. This way, their outputs become discoverable and associated metadata is made available to the community. DataCite then develops additional services to improve the DOI management experience, making it easier for our members to connect and share their DOIs with the broader research ecosystem and to assess the use of their DOIs within that ecosystem. DataCite is an active participant in the research community and promotes data sharing and citation through community-building efforts and outreach activities.
As a member of DataCite, LabArchives is able to incorporate DOI creation into the data publishing workflow available within the ELN. Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) are used to permanently identify publicly-available content further enhancing its discoverability and proper citation.
Learn more about the data publishing and DOI creation process in the ELN.