DataCite Netherlands
TU Delft Library is a founding member of DataCite and consortium leader of the TU Delft DOI Consortium.
TU Delft Library has established DataCite Netherlands to serve as a central research dataset registration service that helps Dutch research organizations to register DOIs for scientific resources.
As part of this role, DataCite Netherlands:
- Provides access to DataCite’s infrastructure and assigns DOIs
- Provides a prefix unique to your repository
- Provides local support to Dutch data centres and research organizations
- Contributes to the ongoing development of DataCite services and resources
- Promotes the value of citation and the use of digital object identifiers for datasets
Read below how you can register DOIs as a Dutch scientific institution such as a research institute, library or university faculty that has its own infrastructure for storing objects.
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A digital object identifier (DOI) is a character string ("digital identifier") used to uniquely identify an object such as an electronic document. The object’s metadata is stored with the DOI. The metadata may include a location, such as an URL, where the object can be found. The DOI for an object is permanent, whereas its location and other metadata may change. Referring to an online document by its DOI is more stable than referring to it by its URL, because the latter may change. In case of an url change, the publisher only needs to update the metadata with the new internet address.
The DOI is made up of two components, a prefix and a suffix, separated by a forward slash.
The prefix is assigned by the allocation agent, e.g. DataCite Netherlands. The suffix is assigned by the institution that is responsible for the content. -
The DOI registration service is available to scientific institutions such as research institutes, libraries and university faculties that have their own infrastructure for storing objects.
Basic requirements are:
- The research object must be cite-worthy
- The research object must have well described metadata
- The institution assigning the DOIs commits to long-term storage of the object
Organizations wishing to register a DOI are advised to contact customer service at library@tudelft.nl.
Before registration, an agreement is made with the TU Delft Library. By entering into this agreement, the institution becomes a member of the TU Delft DOI Consortium.
With regard to cost, the annual service fee is calculated according to the DataCite price list, accessible via https://datacite.org/feemodel.html. This means that each organization is charged a fixed organization fee of 500 euros annually, plus a DOI fee based on the number of registered DOIs in that year.DataCite Netherlands holds no full text or data content, but rather provides linkages through DOIs, which are tagged to metadata supplied by the data producers. The end result is an efficient, scaleable linking system through which a researcher can click on a reference citation in a journal and access the cited data set.
DataCite DOIs can be registered for:
- Research data
- Other non-textual materials (e.g. videos, images, 3D models)
- Grey literature
- Articles in Open Access journals published by academic institutions
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DataCite Netherlands is a service provided by the TU Delft Library.
Please contact our customer service Ask your Library if you have any question.
