Launched in January 2021, as a consortium for any non-profit in the US looking to get started with DataCite DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers), the Lyrasis DataCite US Community is dedicated to supporting open research infrastructure and best practices for making research and scholarly materials more FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
Community Snapshot
- Participating organizations = 25
- DOIs registered to date = 65,084
- Top DOI resource types:
- Text (25,336)
- Other (12,963)
- Image (7,215)
- Dataset (6,041)
- Dissertation (4,693)
- Audiovisual (4,544)
- Participating organizations as of June 1, 2025 include:
- Brandeis University
- Brown University
- CyVerse
- Dauphin Island Sea Lab - Marine Environmental Science Consortium
- Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
- Georgetown University
- Georgia State University
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Louisiana State University
- Lyrasis
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- North Dakota State University
- Phoenix Bioinformatics
- Rockefeller University
- Trenholm State Community College
- Uniformed Services University
- Union College
- University of Alabama
- University of Delaware
- University of Georgia
- University of Maine System
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Tampa
- University of Wyoming
- Wake Forest University
Community Resources
The Lyrasis DataCite US Community provides opportunities for engagement via community calls, webinars, written resources and networking with a national and international community of practice for DOIs and other persistent identifiers. The following resources and more can be found on our website:
Educating Researchers about DOIs:
- Blog: Educating Researchers about DOIs
- One-pager: DOIs 101 for Researchers
Case Studies:
- 2025 Showcase featuring University of Wyoming (US) and Scholars Portal - Scholaris (Canada)
- 2024 Showcase featuring Dauphin Island Sea Lab (US), Ocean Networks Canada, Phoenix Bioinformatics (US), and the University of New Brunswick (Canada)
- 2023 Showcase featuring the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (US), the University of British Columbia (Canada), The Cancer Imaging Archive (US), and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada Federated Research Data Repository (Canada)
- 2022 Showcase featuring Scholars Portal (Canada), University of Tampa (US), Bank of Canada (Canada), CyVerse (US)
Select Community Call Topics:
- How Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) work together in the research ecosystem (Feb. 20, 2024)
- FAIR, CARE, and Persistent Identifiers (Nov. 1, 2023)
- Best Practices for Data Citation (July 6, 2023)
- DataCite DOI Metadata & Discoverability (Sept. 14, 2022)
General Information:
- DataCite DOI Best Practices & Considerations for Getting Started (March 7, 2023)
- Introducing the Lyrasis DataCite US Community (April 22, 2021)
DataCite Resources & News
- DataCite News Highlights:
- 2025 Roadmap
2024 Member Survey Results
In the fall of 2024, a brief survey was sent out to all participating organizations to gather feedback on the types of resources and topics of interest for priority focus in 2025. We received responses representing 6 of the 25 participating organizations at that time. Responses from that survey have been used to plan our 2025 community activities (see below). We will continue to survey participating organizations at the end of each calendar year to prepare for the following year. Stay tuned for the 2025 survey later this year!
Top two most helpful resources/events in 2024:
- Community Call: How PIDs Work Together in the Research Ecosystem
- Community Call: DataCite Best Practices for Long Term (Meta)Data Stewardship
Respondents were asked to rate the importance of the FAIR Principles to their organizations (to make research outputs more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable)? Results show that most organizations hold the FAIR principles to be very important:
- Rating = 5 - very important (50%)
- Rating = 4 - important (33.3%)
- Rating = 3 - neutral (16.7%)
- Rating = 2 - not important (0%)
- Rating = 1 - very unimportant (0%)
When creating DOIs, participating organizations tend to include the following recommended or optional metadata fields for their DataCite DOIs:
- Description (83.3%)
- Subject (50%)
- ORCID iDs (50%)
- Related Identifiers (33.3%)
- Funding information, if applicable (16.7%)
33.3% of respondents indicated that they only use mandatory metadata fields.
Level of satisfaction with the Lyrasis DataCite US Community program (on a scale of 1-5):
- Rating = 5 - very satisfied (66.7%)
- Rating = 4 - mostly satisfied (16.7%)
- Rating = 3 - neutral (16.7%)
For questions or to contribute to future Lyrasis DataCite US Community newsletters, please contact sheila.rabun@lyrasis.org.