University of Reading

DataCite Membership and DOI Prefixes

The University of Reading is a DataCite member — a fact about the institution, not a contract it operates. api.datacite.org/providers/pclw returns provider "University of Reading", symbol PCLW, organizationType academicInstitution, memberType consortium_organization under consortium blco, country GB, rorId https://ror.org/05v62cm79. Four DOI prefixes are assigned — 10.17864, 10.48683, 10.83281, 10.83004 — and three repository clients, of which bl.reading is registered to researchdata.reading.ac.uk and pclw.bnuteb to the university's Elsevier Pure instance. The registry's own API is DataCite's and is not saved here.

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-reading:datacite-membership
name: DataCite Membership and DOI Prefixes
x-operator: registry
description: The University of Reading is a DataCite member — a fact about the institution, not a contract
  it operates. api.datacite.org/providers/pclw returns provider "University of Reading", symbol PCLW,
  organizationType academicInstitution, memberType consortium_organization under consortium blco, country
  GB, rorId https://ror.org/05v62cm79. Four DOI prefixes are assigned — 10.17864, 10.48683, 10.83281,
  10.83004 — and three repository clients, of which bl.reading is registered to researchdata.reading.ac.uk
  and pclw.bnuteb to the university's Elsevier Pure instance. The registry's own API is DataCite's and
  is not saved here.
humanURL: https://www.reading.ac.uk/library
baseURL: https://api.datacite.org/providers/pclw
tags:
- DOI
- DataCite
- Persistent Identifiers
- Registry
- Research Data
properties:
- type: API
  url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/pclw
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-reading-conformance.yml