Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

DataCite Membership — Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

KIT is a DataCite direct member, registering DOIs for its own research output rather than through a consortium proxy. Verified 2026-09-01 at https://api.datacite.org/providers/kit (200): id "kit", symbol KIT, name "Karlsruhe Institute of Technology", memberType direct_member, country DE, rorId https://ror.org/04t3en479, member since 2020-12-15. The RADAR4KIT repository is registered as DataCite client TIB.KIT4RADAR pointing at https://radar.kit.edu/. KITopen's OAI-PMH provider serves the oai_datacite metadata prefix, so the DataCite schema is declared inside a contract KIT operates rather than only claimed in prose. This is a MEMBERSHIP — a fact about KIT — not a KIT-operated API; DataCite's contract is DataCite's and is not saved here.

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https://api.datacite.org/clients/tib.kit4radar

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:datacite-member
x-operator: registry
name: DataCite Membership — Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
description: 'KIT is a DataCite direct member, registering DOIs for its own research output rather than
  through a consortium proxy. Verified 2026-09-01 at https://api.datacite.org/providers/kit (200): id
  "kit", symbol KIT, name "Karlsruhe Institute of Technology", memberType direct_member, country DE, rorId
  https://ror.org/04t3en479, member since 2020-12-15. The RADAR4KIT repository is registered as DataCite
  client TIB.KIT4RADAR pointing at https://radar.kit.edu/. KITopen''s OAI-PMH provider serves the oai_datacite
  metadata prefix, so the DataCite schema is declared inside a contract KIT operates rather than only
  claimed in prose. This is a MEMBERSHIP — a fact about KIT — not a KIT-operated API; DataCite''s contract
  is DataCite''s and is not saved here.'
humanURL: https://api.datacite.org/providers/kit
baseURL: https://api.datacite.org/providers/kit
x-verified: '2026-09-01'
tags:
- DataCite
- DOI
- Persistent Identifiers
- Registry
- Research Data
properties:
- type: BaseURL
  url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/kit
- type: x-datacite-client
  url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/tib.kit4radar