A national or regional grouping of DataCite member organisations led by a 'Consortium Lead' that holds the master agreement with DataCite, allowing member institutions to mint DOIs under a shared fee structure and shared support model.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 10 Jul 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
The British Library leading the UK DataCite Consortium.
Is an instance
TIB (Technische Informationsbibliothek) leading DataCite Germany.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A bilateral repository partnership between two universities is not a DataCite consortium.
Not an instance
Joining ORCID through a Jisc consortium does not give DataCite membership.

Editorial commentary

As with ORCID consortia, DataCite consortia let countries adopt DataCite cost-effectively. Each consortium has one Consortium Lead and many Consortium Organizations; the lead provides local support, training, and integration help. Examples include the British Library (UK), TIB (Germany via DataCite Germany), CSC (Finland), and others. A consortium organisation can mint DOIs for its own outputs without negotiating with DataCite directly.

References

DataCite, 'DataCite Membership Models — Consortia' (datacite.org/membership.html).

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="DataCite consortium"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/datacite-consortium" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/datacite-consortium",
  "name": "DataCite consortium",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/datacite-consortium",
  "description": "A national or regional grouping of DataCite member organisations led by a 'Consortium Lead' that holds the master agreement with DataCite, allowing member institutions to mint DOIs under a shared fee structure and shared support model.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/persistent-identifiers#set",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/datacite-consortium",
  "sameAs": [],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
  },
  "dateModified": "2026-07-10T02:10:35",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

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