University of Liverpool

DataCite repository membership (BL.LPOOL)

The University of Liverpool is a DataCite repository member and has been since 2015. Verified 2026-09-01: https://api.datacite.org/clients/bl.lpool returns 200 with name "University of Liverpool", symbol BL.LPOOL, clientType repository, created 2015-04-29 and declared domains liv.ac.uk, liverpool.ac.uk, datacat.liverpool.ac.uk and livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk. One DOI prefix, 10.17638, is bound to the client, and 16,405 DOIs are registered under it — the first of which, 10.17638/03200178, resolves to https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3200178, i.e. into the institution's own repository rather than a vendor host. This is a fact about the institution recorded through a shared registry; DataCite's own contract is not saved here.

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-liverpool:datacite-membership
name: DataCite repository membership (BL.LPOOL)
x-operator: registry
description: 'The University of Liverpool is a DataCite repository member and has been since 2015. Verified
  2026-09-01: https://api.datacite.org/clients/bl.lpool returns 200 with name "University of Liverpool",
  symbol BL.LPOOL, clientType repository, created 2015-04-29 and declared domains liv.ac.uk, liverpool.ac.uk,
  datacat.liverpool.ac.uk and livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk. One DOI prefix, 10.17638, is bound to the
  client, and 16,405 DOIs are registered under it — the first of which, 10.17638/03200178, resolves to
  https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3200178, i.e. into the institution''s own repository
  rather than a vendor host. This is a fact about the institution recorded through a shared registry;
  DataCite''s own contract is not saved here.'
humanURL: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/open-research/
baseURL: https://api.datacite.org/clients/bl.lpool
tags:
- Registry
- DataCite
- DOI
- Persistent Identifiers
- Research Data