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api.datacite.org

DOI metadata for research datasets, software and preprints from the DataCite registry.

Capabilities (7)

GET /v1/data/datacite/client1 credit

Returns one repository's record: name, symbol, description, language, re3data and OpenDOAR links, software, contact URL, year joined and DOI estimate.

id
GET /v1/data/datacite/clients1 credit

Searches DataCite repositories (clients) and returns the first 25 with their id, name, description, re3data link, software, year joined and owning provider.

query?year?provider-id?software?certificate?repository-type?sort?
GET /v1/data/datacite/doi1 credit

Returns the full DataCite metadata record for one DOI: creators with affiliations and ORCIDs, titles, publisher, publication year, resource type, subjects, rights, descriptions, funding references, related identifiers and citation/view/download counts.

doiaffiliation?publisher?
GET /v1/data/datacite/dois1 credit

Searches DataCite's registered DOIs - datasets, software, preprints, theses, samples - and returns the first 25 full records plus a meta block with total hits and facet counts by year, repository, resource type and licence.

query?sort?resource-type-id?client-id?provider-id?prefix?subject?affiliation?random?created?registered?published?
GET /v1/data/datacite/provider1 credit

Returns one DataCite member organisation: name, symbol, website, description, region, country, member type and the date it joined.

id
GET /v1/data/datacite/providers1 credit

Searches DataCite member organisations (providers) and returns the first 25 with id, display name, website, description, country, region and member type.

query?year?region?member-type?organization-type?sort?
GET /v1/data/datacite/resource-types1 credit

Returns DataCite's controlled list of general resource types - dataset, software, text, image, preprint, instrument and the rest - as id plus title.

No parameters

Licence

DataCite makes its DOI metadata available under CC0, as stated in its metadata policy.

https://datacite.org/metadata-policy/

Attribution

Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attribution_text.

Source: DataCite

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