DataCite

[2] DataCite was subsequently founded in London on 1 December 2009[3] by organisations from 6 countries: the British Library; the Technical Information Center of Denmark (DTIC); the TU Delft Library from the Netherlands; the National Research Council’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI); the California Digital Library (University of California Curation Center - UC3);[4] Purdue University (USA);[5] and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB).

[6] After the founding of DataCite, leading research libraries and information centres converged for the first official members’ convention in Paris on 5 February 2010.

The inclusion of five further members was approved in the office of the International Council for Science (ICSU): Australian National Data Service (ANDS);[7] Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (ZB MED); GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences; French Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST);[8] and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich.

[12] Source:[13] In April 2017, DataCite was one of the founding partners in the Initiative for Open Citations.

[14] In January 2023, DataCite announced a partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to develop an Open Global Data Citation Corpus.