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In the course of the adaptation of the membership and fee model by DataCite , GESIS founded the DARA Consortium at the end of 2020. The DARA Consortium organisations comprises currently 58 social and economic science data-holding institutions from Germany and abroad. GESIS is the leading Consortium Organisation and runs together with the ZBW the DOI Registration service da|ra. The Consortium uses …

In the course of the adaptation of the membership and fee model by DataCite, GESIS founded the DARA Consortium at the end of 2020. The consortium now comprises 51 social and economic science data-holding institutions from Germany and abroad. GESIS is the leading Consortium Organisation and runs together with the ZBW the DOI Registration service da|ra. The Consortium uses 86 Prefixes and has …

The maintenance of the discovery service "gesisDataSearch", implemented by GESIS in 2017, is discontinued. Although the site is still accessible there will not be any technical updates. The metadata harvested from social science research data collections is no longer monitored, and quality assured. The GESIS department "Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences" (WTS) will use the indexing …

On 25 November 2020 the DARA Consortium was founded. The Leibniz institutions GESIS and ZBW have been early members of DataCite, and the joint DOI registration service da|ra has been in operation since 2010. Even though the change of the membership model of DataCite GESIS and ZBW have decided to continue the service and set up the DARA Consortium, which was built from the former da|ra users. …