University of Southern California

USC DataCite DOI Registration (Provider Account)

USC holds a DataCite direct membership in its own name and mints DOIs for eleven USC repositories under it. GET https://api.datacite.org/providers/usc returns 200 with name "University of Southern California", memberType direct_member, organizationType academicInstitution, joined 2017-06-02 and rorId https://ror.org/03taz7m60. The account carries 1,513,793 DOIs across usc.dl (USC Digital Library, 1,511,764), usc.facebase (1,410), usc.ini (Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, 284), usc.isi (123), usc.gateway (Gateway to Global Aging Data, 105), usc.kidney (57), usc.metrans (35), usc.dataverse (9), usc.cesr (6), usc.pgahp and usc.test. Recorded as tenant, not institution: the REST API is DataCite's contract and every DataCite member shares it, so no spec is saved here. What is USC's is the account, the eleven repositories and the DOIs — a real and substantial institutional fact that this profile carried nowhere before.

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https://api.datacite.org/providers/usc

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Documentation

https://api.datacite.org/clients?provider-id=usc

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: usc:datacite-membership
name: USC DataCite DOI Registration (Provider Account)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'USC holds a DataCite direct membership in its own name and mints DOIs for eleven USC repositories
  under it. GET https://api.datacite.org/providers/usc returns 200 with name "University of Southern California",
  memberType direct_member, organizationType academicInstitution, joined 2017-06-02 and rorId https://ror.org/03taz7m60.
  The account carries 1,513,793 DOIs across usc.dl (USC Digital Library, 1,511,764), usc.facebase (1,410),
  usc.ini (Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, 284), usc.isi (123), usc.gateway (Gateway to
  Global Aging Data, 105), usc.kidney (57), usc.metrans (35), usc.dataverse (9), usc.cesr (6), usc.pgahp
  and usc.test. Recorded as tenant, not institution: the REST API is DataCite''s contract and every DataCite
  member shares it, so no spec is saved here. What is USC''s is the account, the eleven repositories and
  the DOIs — a real and substantial institutional fact that this profile carried nowhere before.'
humanURL: https://research.usc.edu/research-and-scholarship/digital-usc/
baseURL: https://api.datacite.org
tags:
- Research Data
- DataCite
- DOI
- Persistent Identifiers
- Research Repository
properties:
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/usc
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.datacite.org/clients?provider-id=usc