# USC DataCite DOI Registration (Provider Account)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/usc/datacite-membership/  
**Provider:** University of Southern California — https://apis.io/providers/usc/  
**Base URL:** https://api.datacite.org  
**Documentation:** https://research.usc.edu/research-and-scholarship/digital-usc/

USC DataCite DOI Registration (Provider Account) is one of 8 APIs that [University of Southern California](https://apis.io/providers/usc/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Data, DataCite, DOI, Persistent Identifiers, and Research Repository. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an API reference and API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **APIReference** — https://api.datacite.org/providers/usc
- **Documentation** — https://api.datacite.org/clients?provider-id=usc

## Other University of Southern California APIs (7)

- [USC Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 Metadata)](https://apis.io/apis/usc/shibboleth-idp/)
- [FaceBase ERMrest Data API](https://apis.io/apis/usc/facebase-ermrest/)
- [USC Digital Library API (Orange Logic Cortex)](https://apis.io/apis/usc/digital-library-cortex/)
- [USC Figshare Research Repository (Tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/usc/figshare-repository/)
- [USC Libraries Discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE, Tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/usc/primo-discovery/)
- [USC Canvas Learning Management System (Instructure, Tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/usc/canvas-lms/)
- [USC Schedule of Classes (SOC) — Web Services API, retired](https://apis.io/apis/usc/schedule-of-classes/)

## Tags

Research Data, DataCite, DOI, Persistent Identifiers, Research Repository

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/usc/datacite-membership/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/usc/.