DataCite
DataCite is a non-profit DOI registration agency whose members, mostly data repositories and research institutions, register DOIs for datasets and other research outputs. Through ScholarMuse, an agent searches the DataCite REST API for DOIs whose resource type is Dataset and gets the DOI, creators, year, publishing repository, description and stated licence.
ScholarMuse tools: search_datasets. Each successful call uses credits.
The web tool runs without an account, up to 5 runs a day per visitor.
Ask your agent
What your agent gets back
Every record carries id, source, title, url, license, attribution and retrievedAt. The fields below are the data that comes from DataCite.
search_datasets
When a repository searched in the same call returns the same DOI, its record is kept and DataCite is listed in that record's alsoIn, with DataCite filling any empty fields.
- doi
- Dataset DOI, lower case
- creators
- Creator names, up to 10
- year
- Publication year
- repository
- Publisher named in the DOI metadata
- description
- Abstract or first description, tags removed
- size
- Sizes as stated by the depositor
- format
- Formats as stated by the depositor
- version
- Version string, when given
- license
- Licence of the dataset, from its rights list
- licenseUrl
- URL of that licence
- alsoIn
- Other sources that returned the same dataset
What it covers
- DOIs registered with DataCite whose resource type is Dataset, from any repository that registers there.
- Software, text and other resource types are left out by the connector.
- Each record links to https://doi.org/ plus the DOI, which resolves to the hosting repository.
Limits
- One call returns at most 25 datasets (default 10). When several repositories are searched together, that number is shared between them, so name DataCite alone to fill it.
- The only search input is a keyword query. There are no year, licence, author or file-type filters; the agent has to read those fields in the results.
- Size, format and licence appear only when the depositor filled them in, and only the first rights entry is read. File lists and download links are not returned.
- An upstream request is abandoned after 30 seconds.
How ScholarMuse reaches DataCite
The connector calls api.datacite.org/dois with no API key, restricted to the Dataset resource type and sorted by relevance.
Responses are cached for up to 6 hours, so a dataset published at DataCite in the last few hours may not appear yet.
API key: the upstream API can be called without one, so you do not add one.
Licence and attribution
Licence: CC0-1.0
Metadata from DataCite (datacite.org), CC0.
Records that come from DataCite carry this licence and attribution. When you cite the data in a paper, follow DataCite's own citation guidance.
