Services & Use Cases

Service overview

Tools and services to enhance the visibility and impact of all research outputs and activities

DataCite DOI registration

Persistent identifiers for all research outputs and activities, supporting discovery, citation, and reuse – registered with a member API, metadata upload, or a simple form. No per-DOI pricing so you don’t need to restrict what to include.

Get started with DOIs

DataCite metadata

An open data source of research outputs and activities – described with the DataCite Metadata Schema, enriched with other persistent identifiers and metadata connections, and available through APIs and data files.

More about metadata

DataCite APIs

Programmatic access to DataCite infrastructure for building integrations, automating workflows, generating insights, and retrieving metadata at scale.

API documentation

Dashboards and insights

Dashboards and reporting tools for monitoring metadata quality and exploring DataCite metadata.

Metadata dashboard

Services by user

DataCite services are for all types of research organizations and metadata users, whether registering and managing research outputs or integrating metadata into downstream systems.

Research organizations

Make your research outputs and activities more visible, discoverable, and citable to report on research impact and with open research and FAIR data practices.

Become a DataCite member

Funders & administrators

Analyze research impact and citations, register DOIs for grants and awards, track funded outputs.

Explore outputs by organizations

Harvesters & indexers

Retrieve metadata to integrate into a scholarly index or similar system.

Get started with harvesting

Integrators & developers

Connect to DataCite APIs to automate metadata deposits and DOI registration.

Integrator documentation