DataCite - Fee Model 2020

Membership Fees

DataCite's strength is rooted in its active membership. Our global community of like-minded Members includes data centers, libraries, government agencies, research institutions and more. Members are the voting body of the organization and establish our vision and strategy, set our fee structure, and vote or stand for our Executive Board. Membership is open to all organizations that share our research sharing mission. Membership fees support DataCite’s goal of making all research outputs a critical component of the research landscape.

Annual Membership Fee: 2000 euros

DOI Service Fees

DataCite’s DOI Services are available to Members for an additional service fee. Our robust infrastructure provides a simple and effective method of DOI creation and management thereby enabling discovery, access, sharing, tracking, and citation. DataCite’s user-facing services -- indexed content, help-desk, support site, and a metadata schema –support a range of diverse content types (data, text, images, software, workflows, and more).

DOI Service Fees for Non‐profit Organizations

Each non-profit Direct Member or Consortium Organization that makes use of DOI registration services will pay an annual service fee. This fee consists of an Organization fee and tier based DOI registration fee:

Organization Fee

The organization fee is 500€. This fee includes all the repositories and prefixes needed by an organization to follow best practices.

DOI Fee

There are several tiers of for the number of new DOIs registered annually. The tiers accommodate different types of organizations and align with the cost impact supporting the DataCite infrastructure.

Tier Annual DOI range Organization Fee DOI Fee Annual service fee per organization
Tier 1 0 - 1,999 500€ Graded tier 0.80€ per DOI 500€ + 0.80€ per DOI
Tier 2 2,000 - 10,000 500€ 1,600€ 2,100€
Tier 3 10,001 - 100,000 500€ 2,500€ 3,000€
Tier 4 100,001 - 250,000 500€ 3,500€ 4,000€
Tier 5 250,001 - 1,000,000 500€ 8,500€ 9,000€

DOI Service Fees: Direct Member and Consortium Member

There are two different ways non-profit organizations can use DataCite’s DOI services: 1) as a Direct Member or 2) as a Consortium Member.

Direct Member

A Direct Member is an organization that works with one or more repositories within the same administrative structure as the Direct Member. Each Direct Member pays an annual membership fee of 2000€, the organization fee and the DOI fees based on the annual total number of new DOIs.

Consortium Member

A consortium is a group of like-minded organizations that have come together to collectively participate in DataCite’s community and governance activities and use DataCite’s DOI services. A consortium is composed of two or more non-profit organizations that are under different administrative structures. Each consortium pays a single annual membership fee totaling 2000 euros – the membership fee is often split between organizations within the consortium. Each organization within the consortium pays the organization fee and the DOI fee. One organization within the consortium is designated the consortium lead and fulfills a range of responsibilities.

Consortium fee caps

In order to support growing consortia and the adoption within communities, the total consortium service fee (organization + DOI fee) is capped based on the number of organizations. The total cap is calculated based on the total number of organizations within the consortium:

  • 5-30 orgs: 1.000 € multiplied by total number of organizations within the consortium
  • 31-60 orgs: 700 € multiplied by total number of organizations within the consortium
  • 61-100 orgs: 600 € multiplied by total number of organizations within the consortium
  • 101+ orgs: 500 € multiplied by total number of organizations within the consortium

For‐profit Organizations

DOI Service Fees are based on the total annual revenue of the organization. The "Start‐up" category is for newly formed organizations and will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Annual Revenue Annual Fee
Start-up 1500€
<100,000,000€ 5,000€
>100,000,000€ 15,000€

Payment Methods and Billing Cycle

Payments can be made either via bank wire transfer, check or credit card.

DataCite invoices annually at the beginning of the year. Organizations that join DataCite during the calendar year will be charged pro-rated fees based on the month joined.

More information about changes to pricing here.
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