Tsinghua University DataCite DOI Registration and Resolution

Tsinghua University holds a DataCite membership in its own name — symbol TSINGHUA, memberType direct_member, organizationType academicInstitution, joined 2016-09-05, registered against the university library — under which 194 DOIs are minted on prefix 10.23650. The landing pages resolve to Tsinghua's own host, datacite.lib.tsinghua.edu.cn, so this is an institution-operated DOI service rather than a tenancy on a vendor repository platform, which is unusual and worth noting for this cohort. Two caveats are load-bearing. The resolution host does not answer HTTP from outside China: TCP 443 is open and the TLS handshake completes against a valid Let's Encrypt certificate for *.tsinghua.edu.cn, but a GET returns zero bytes after 60 seconds, and doi.org redirects into the same dead end — so these DOIs are registered but unresolvable from here. And the two repository clients under the membership are TSINGHUA.NGAC ("China Geological Survey", 2017) and TSINGHUA.KUKSIK ("test", 2021); the DOI content observed is Chinese national geological-survey data curated by Tsinghua, not a general institutional research-data repository. Tsinghua registers no repository in re3data at all. No contract is saved under this entry — the machine-readable evidence lives in DataCite's own API, which is DataCite's contract, not Tsinghua's.

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: tsinghua:datacite-doi
name: Tsinghua University DataCite DOI Registration and Resolution
description: 'Tsinghua University holds a DataCite membership in its own name — symbol TSINGHUA, memberType
  direct_member, organizationType academicInstitution, joined 2016-09-05, registered against the university
  library — under which 194 DOIs are minted on prefix 10.23650. The landing pages resolve to Tsinghua''s
  own host, datacite.lib.tsinghua.edu.cn, so this is an institution-operated DOI service rather than a
  tenancy on a vendor repository platform, which is unusual and worth noting for this cohort. Two caveats
  are load-bearing. The resolution host does not answer HTTP from outside China: TCP 443 is open and the
  TLS handshake completes against a valid Let''s Encrypt certificate for *.tsinghua.edu.cn, but a GET
  returns zero bytes after 60 seconds, and doi.org redirects into the same dead end — so these DOIs are
  registered but unresolvable from here. And the two repository clients under the membership are TSINGHUA.NGAC
  ("China Geological Survey", 2017) and TSINGHUA.KUKSIK ("test", 2021); the DOI content observed is Chinese
  national geological-survey data curated by Tsinghua, not a general institutional research-data repository.
  Tsinghua registers no repository in re3data at all. No contract is saved under this entry — the machine-readable
  evidence lives in DataCite''s own API, which is DataCite''s contract, not Tsinghua''s.'
humanURL: https://lib.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/
baseURL: https://datacite.lib.tsinghua.edu.cn
tags:
- Research Data
- DOI
- DataCite
- Library
- Persistent Identifiers
properties:
- type: Registry
  url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/tsinghua
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/tsinghua-conformance.yml
- type: Errors
  url: errors/tsinghua-errors.yml
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: DataCite provider record TSINGHUA is registered to Tsinghua University itself (country
  CN, organizationType academicInstitution) and the DOI landing pages address datacite.lib.tsinghua.edu.cn,
  Tsinghua's own host. The DataCite REST API used as evidence is DataCite's surface and is deliberately
  not saved as a Tsinghua contract.
x-probe:
- url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/tsinghua
  status: 200
  note: direct_member, joined 2016-09-05, isActive true
  checked: '2026-08-19'
- url: https://api.datacite.org/dois?provider-id=tsinghua
  status: 200
  note: meta.total = 194 DOIs on prefix 10.23650
  checked: '2026-08-19'
- url: https://datacite.lib.tsinghua.edu.cn/
  status: 0
  note: TCP+TLS succeed, HTTP returns zero bytes after 60s — live host, unreadable surface
  checked: '2026-08-19'