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title: "Datacite (@datacite)"
description: "International not-for-profit organization for research data citation."
account: "datacite"
---

# Datacite

International not-for-profit organization for research data citation.

## APIs

3 public APIs with a stored document.
Each links to its markdown overview; the same address with
`/llms.txt` in place of `.md` lists its operations.
Changes across these APIs: https://skmtc.dev/datacite/feed.md

- [Usage Tracker API](https://skmtc.dev/datacite/apis/usage-tracker-api.md): Usage metrics: log COUNTER-compliant research data usage events and check repository reporting status
- [mds](https://skmtc.dev/datacite/apis/mds.md): DOI registration: create, look up, list and delete DOIs, their metadata and media records
- [REST API](https://skmtc.dev/datacite/apis/datacite.md): Research metadata: register and search DOIs, manage repositories, providers, prefixes and API keys