A free generalist research repository operated by CERN and developed under OpenAIRE that accepts deposits of datasets, software, publications, presentations, posters, and other research artefacts, minting DataCite DOIs and providing free preservation up to a per-record size limit.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 10 Jul 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
A GitHub release of an open-source research tool automatically archived to Zenodo with a DataCite DOI for citation.
Is an instance
A conference presentation slide deck deposited to Zenodo for citation and persistence.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A discipline-specific repository (e.g. GenBank for sequences) is not Zenodo, though it may complement it.
Not an instance
A commercial cloud storage account is not Zenodo.

Editorial commentary

Zenodo was launched in 2013 to support outputs that have no natural home in a discipline-specific repository, including software releases (with which it has a popular GitHub-integration that automatically deposits each tagged release as a citeable record with a DOI). Zenodo is funder-neutral, accepts records under any open or restricted licence (within legal limits), and is widely used by EU-funded researchers as a Horizon-compliant deposit destination. Its API supports programmatic deposit and metadata retrieval.

References

European Organization for Nuclear Research, 'Zenodo' (zenodo.org).
OpenAIRE Nexus service portfolio documentation.

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Zenodo (concept)"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/zenodo-concept" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/zenodo-concept",
  "name": "Zenodo (concept)",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/zenodo-concept",
  "description": "A free generalist research repository operated by CERN and developed under OpenAIRE that accepts deposits of datasets, software, publications, presentations, posters, and other research artefacts, minting DataCite DOIs and providing free preservation up to a per-record size limit.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/data-infrastructure#set",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/zenodo-concept",
  "sameAs": [],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
  },
  "dateModified": "2026-07-10T02:06:21",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

Referenced across the research world

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