From December 10th to 11th DataCite held its 4th General Assembly in Cologne, Germany. At this occasion two new members were elected: DataCite welcomes the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) as its 17th full member and the Bejiing Genomic Institute (BGI) as its 5th affiliated member.
The picture shows the Thai delegation: Soottiporn Chittmittrapap, Petchara Sungkhaworn and Namtip Wipawin in Colgne with Adam Farquhar, President of DataCite and Jan Brase, Managing Agent of DataCite.

DataCite’s Business Models Principles document is now available for download. Intended for DataCite members and their clients, the document looks at DataCite member and client responsibilities, as well as best practices.

DataCite offers various services supporting the DOI registration and discovery of research data. These services include the Metadata Store, a statistics portal, the OAI-PMH Provider and many more. Please have a look at our Services website for more information!

DataCite will host open hours for data centres on Tuesday, 16th October 2012. 5pm Berlin time. Please look here for your local time.

We want to gather feedback from the end users, listen to suggests, answer potential questions etc. In general this meeting is open, informal and a friendly way to build relationships with our end users. The communication language will be English.