London School of Economics and Political Science

LSE DOI Registration (DataCite)

LSE is a registered DataCite provider — member identifier lcqr, "London School of Economics", memberType consortium_organization, region EMEA, registered 2020-09-01, linked to ROR https://ror.org/0090zs177. Three repositories mint DOIs under it: bl.lse (institutional), lcqr.lsedl (LSE Digital Library) and lcqr.plmezb (Houghton St Press). The registration and the minted identifiers are LSE's; the API that exposes them is DataCite's, so this is recorded as a tenancy rather than an LSE-operated interface. It is nonetheless one of the few genuinely machine-queryable facts about LSE's research output.

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: lse:datacite-doi
name: LSE DOI Registration (DataCite)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'LSE is a registered DataCite provider — member identifier lcqr, "London School of Economics",
  memberType consortium_organization, region EMEA, registered 2020-09-01, linked to ROR https://ror.org/0090zs177.
  Three repositories mint DOIs under it: bl.lse (institutional), lcqr.lsedl (LSE Digital Library) and
  lcqr.plmezb (Houghton St Press). The registration and the minted identifiers are LSE''s; the API that
  exposes them is DataCite''s, so this is recorded as a tenancy rather than an LSE-operated interface.
  It is nonetheless one of the few genuinely machine-queryable facts about LSE''s research output.'
humanURL: https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/information.html
baseURL: https://api.datacite.org/providers/lcqr
tags:
- Research Repository
- DataCite
- DOI
- Persistent Identifiers
- Open Research
properties:
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/lse-domain-standards.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://support.datacite.org/docs/api