CSC offers national services for persistent identifiers. We focus on identifiers for research data used by research data management services. Persistent identifiers enable sustainable interoperability, individualisation of information and citations. As a basic building block of the FAIR data principles they play an important role in responsible research data management. 

CSC coordinates the Datacite Finland Consortium and is a member of the ePIC consortium, and it can provide Handle identifiers, such as DOI. Several services at CSC also utilise URN identifiers offered by the National Library of Finland. Our basic services do not include training or extensive consultation, but we coordinate the open national PID Network and provide support in choosing the right PID solutions.


Datacite Finland Consortium

The common metadata format for research datasets DataCite requires DOI as part of the metadata. The DOI is also often used in data citation.

Joining the DataCite Finland consortium is an affordable and easy way for an organization to start minting DOI identifiers.

By joining the DataCite Finland Consortium an organisation gets access to minting and allocating its own DOIs for research data. This requires the organisation to have its own research data management systems, as well as a clear data policy.

The DataCite services offer the possibility to assign and manage internationally recognised persistent identifiers that are well integrated with ORCID and other services.

Get in touch via: servicedesk@csc.fi

DataCite

Members of the Consortium (2024)

  • Aalto University (ROR)
  • University of Turku (ROR)
  • Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) (ROR)
  • Finnish MeteoroIogical Institute (FMI) (ROR)
  • CSC (ROR) / Ministry of Education and Culture
  • Tampere University (ROR)

As the Consortium Lead, CSC grants the Consortium Members the right to use the DataCite services and resources as they stand and according to the contract and it's appendixes.


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